Mechanical Engineering Manager Consumer

Are you interested in working for a company that is passionate about its customers? That lives its values and nurtures its employees? Then Medela is the company for you.

Your responsibilities

• 1.1Main tasks
• Provide technical and organizational leadership for mechanical engineering activities across the Personal Use Pump portfolio, ensuring robust product design, technology advancement, manufacturability, and lifecycle excellence.
• Provide critical engineering insights during the early concept phase to guide product strategy and feasibility
• Lead assigned new technology development with agency/supplier and archive into innovation pool
• 1.2Supporting task
• Support check and review competitor products, and beneficial with new ideas, which may cover breast pump category, essential products and any other potential mom & baby products
• Support QFD and design review meetings with supplier and internal stakeholders (marketing, process/tooling, sourcing, project manager, etc.) if necessary
• Support process engineering from design area
• Join supplier scouting as engineering expert, support sourcing scout proper supplier
• Support project manager and other internal stakeholders at Realization Stage as product mechanical expert until new product launch
• Draft Patent application for key ideas and support following application with IP team
• Support launched product continuous improvement and cost reduction
• Lead for Concept Design
  • Lead concept design (with design agency or supplier) including quotation, design, prototyping, test and optimization activities
  • Lead discussion with internal stakeholders balancing consumer experience, commercial strategy, technical feasibility, industrial feasibility and potential project scope
• Lead for Product Requirement Specification based on marketing brief, stakeholder requirements in technical language
• Lead DFMEA review with supplier focusing consumer experience and failure at product & production level
• Lead product mechanical design with supplier, turning concept into specific product (including usage evaluation, CMF, vacuum level, pumping curve, etc.)
• Manage product EVT & DVT, include Product Design Verification & Validation with supplier
• Manage/Review test reports at product development stage until design freeze
• Champion cross-departmental collaboration, effectively resolving conflicts between Marketing, Process Engineering, Procurement and Quality teams.

Your qualifications

• 8+ years of applicable working experience in Breast Pump or related Industrial is required,
• Experience of define/review product test requirement, especially customer pain point covered
• Experience of QFD, DFMEA, DFM, DOE is preferred,
• Experience in design related tools of ProE, UG, AutoCAD, Solidworks, Keyshot etc
• Experience in project management, problem solving techniques, analytical and structured approach, team work.
• Experience in working and collaborating with suppliers in terms of product engineering aspects, quality, costs and timing.
• Experience in a healthcare, medical device, with knowledge of ISO 9001/13485 requirements as well as other international standards.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, or a related field.
• With good verbal and written English communication skills.

Your opportunity

At Medela, you will be joining a global community of colleagues, united by the purpose that drives our business: helping people. Medela exists to advance human health and wellbeing through knowledge-based and innovative human milk and medical vacuum solutions.
Our employees are empowered to serve this purpose in a family-owned company that is growing rapidly around the world. We value intensive exchanges, diverse perspectives, and unbureaucratic decisions. You will have the opportunity to develop at an international level, and witness the direct impact your work has on our company’s success.