Mechanical Engineer I R&D
Apply now »Date: May 20, 2025
Location: Cartago, CR
Company: Terumo BCT, Inc.
JOB TITLE: Mechanical Engineer I
JOB SUMMARY
Are you ready to embark on an exhilarating journey where your engineering skills can help save patients? As a Mechanical Engineer at Terumo Costa Rica, you'll dive into the thrilling world of medical device development, contributing to both innovative designs and sustaining activities. You'll be at the forefront of technological advancement and patient safety, creating solutions that make a real difference in people's lives.
This role is perfect for someone who is passionate about engineering, eager to learn, and ready to collaborate with a dynamic team to drive healthcare innovation. Join us and grow your technical skills while having fun and making a meaningful impact!
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
· Innovate and Create: Engage in mechanical technology assessments and concept designs during development phases, using your creativity and engineering judgment to drive innovation and technical feasibility decisions.
· Ensure Excellence: Contribute to mechanical characterization, verification, and validation activities at both the component and system level, ensuring product performance, safety, and compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
· Lead Projects: Participate in project management responsibilities, including report writing, planning, scheduling, and cost control.
· Design with Impact: Perform evaluation, selection, and substantial adaptation of standard techniques to create innovative mechanical designs for medical devices.
· Collaborate and Lead: Actively participate in design reviews, offering innovative approaches, and researching new mechanical technologies to maintain technological leadership.
· Solve Problems: Identify and mitigate mechanical safety risks throughout the product lifecycle, applying creative problem-solving to address technical challenges and avoid manufacturing delays.
· Drive Improvement: Track and improve key mechanical engineering metrics to drive continuous improvement in design quality and efficiency.
· Stay Compliant: Implement and understand FDA or regulatory requirements as necessary, ensuring compliance with Quality System regulations and safe working practices.
· Document and Communicate: Prepare and review engineering/technical documents such as reports, SOPs, protocols, change notices , schedules, budgets, and vendor-provided documents and drawings.
· Be Inquisitive: Take initiative and demonstrate inquisitive approaches to solve moderately complex problems, identifying problems, generating alternatives, and recommending solutions.
· Enhance Processes: Follow department processes and regularly make recommendations to improve them.
· Support Projects: Develop reports, charts, and graphs to support project recommendations and respond to questions from technical staff members and management.
· Teamwork: Work cooperatively and effectively in a team environment or across teams to achieve common goals and results.
· Analyze and Present: Analyze data and present it in appropriate forums.
· Quality Focus: Actively participate in Quality System and Design Controls requirements, particularly with respect to documentation.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
Education
Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering is preferred.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job may be considered.
Experience
Relevant internship or project experience in mechanical engineering, preferably with a focus on medical device development.
Skills
· Problem Solver: Demonstrated ability to develop solutions to technical problems, make appropriate decisions, and meet time constraints.
· Planner: Planning skills to prioritize and execute multiple projects.
· Learner: Demonstrated desire to continually learn and keep up with changing technology.
· Innovator: Knowledge of manufacturing protocols, statistical tools, methodology, and continuous improvement techniques preferred.
· Engineer: Possess ability to apply fundamental techniques and latest principles of technology to develop and enhance projects.
· Communicator: English communication skills for articulating complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, including senior management.
· Leadership: Ability to coordinate design transfer of product specific to the project.
· Team Player: Able to work cooperatively and effectively in a team environment to achieve common goals and results.
· Self-Starter: Shows initiative as a self-starter to complete tasks as assigned.
· Guided: Willing to seek guidance while carrying out instructions furnished in written or verbal form and takes task approach to ensure assignments are accomplished according to the guidelines and schedules.
· Tech-Savvy: Knowledge and use of relevant PC software applications and skills to use them effectively.
· Adaptable: Adaptability and resilience in fast-paced environments typical of innovative medical technology companies.
· Regulations: Understanding of medical device industry regulations and standards (e.g., FDA, ISO 13485, IEC 60601).
· Global Collaborator: Success working with geographically-dispersed engineering teams across multiple locations.
· CAD and PLM: Demonstrated expertise in the area of CAD design and application of CAD tools, experience with SolidWorks and Windchill preferred.
· Manufacturing Knowledge: Understanding of manufacturing processes such as machining, 3D printing, molding, etc.
Or- An equivalent competency level acquired through a variation of these qualifications may be considered.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
- Must either have a current passport or be eligible to obtain a passport and US Visa.
JOB TITLE: Mechanical Engineer I
JOB SUMMARY
Are you ready to embark on an exhilarating journey where your engineering skills can help save patients? As a Mechanical Engineer at Terumo Costa Rica, you'll dive into the thrilling world of medical device development, contributing to both innovative designs and sustaining activities. You'll be at the forefront of technological advancement and patient safety, creating solutions that make a real difference in people's lives.
This role is perfect for someone who is passionate about engineering, eager to learn, and ready to collaborate with a dynamic team to drive healthcare innovation. Join us and grow your technical skills while having fun and making a meaningful impact!
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
· Innovate and Create: Engage in mechanical technology assessments and concept designs during development phases, using your creativity and engineering judgment to drive innovation and technical feasibility decisions.
· Ensure Excellence: Contribute to mechanical characterization, verification, and validation activities at both the component and system level, ensuring product performance, safety, and compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
· Lead Projects: Participate in project management responsibilities, including report writing, planning, scheduling, and cost control.
· Design with Impact: Perform evaluation, selection, and substantial adaptation of standard techniques to create innovative mechanical designs for medical devices.
· Collaborate and Lead: Actively participate in design reviews, offering innovative approaches, and researching new mechanical technologies to maintain technological leadership.
· Solve Problems: Identify and mitigate mechanical safety risks throughout the product lifecycle, applying creative problem-solving to address technical challenges and avoid manufacturing delays.
· Drive Improvement: Track and improve key mechanical engineering metrics to drive continuous improvement in design quality and efficiency.
· Stay Compliant: Implement and understand FDA or regulatory requirements as necessary, ensuring compliance with Quality System regulations and safe working practices.
· Document and Communicate: Prepare and review engineering/technical documents such as reports, SOPs, protocols, change notices , schedules, budgets, and vendor-provided documents and drawings.
· Be Inquisitive: Take initiative and demonstrate inquisitive approaches to solve moderately complex problems, identifying problems, generating alternatives, and recommending solutions.
· Enhance Processes: Follow department processes and regularly make recommendations to improve them.
· Support Projects: Develop reports, charts, and graphs to support project recommendations and respond to questions from technical staff members and management.
· Teamwork: Work cooperatively and effectively in a team environment or across teams to achieve common goals and results.
· Analyze and Present: Analyze data and present it in appropriate forums.
· Quality Focus: Actively participate in Quality System and Design Controls requirements, particularly with respect to documentation.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
Education
Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering is preferred.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job may be considered.
Experience
Relevant internship or project experience in mechanical engineering, preferably with a focus on medical device development.
Skills
· Problem Solver: Demonstrated ability to develop solutions to technical problems, make appropriate decisions, and meet time constraints.
· Planner: Planning skills to prioritize and execute multiple projects.
· Learner: Demonstrated desire to continually learn and keep up with changing technology.
· Innovator: Knowledge of manufacturing protocols, statistical tools, methodology, and continuous improvement techniques preferred.
· Engineer: Possess ability to apply fundamental techniques and latest principles of technology to develop and enhance projects.
· Communicator: English communication skills for articulating complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, including senior management.
· Leadership: Ability to coordinate design transfer of product specific to the project.
· Team Player: Able to work cooperatively and effectively in a team environment to achieve common goals and results.
· Self-Starter: Shows initiative as a self-starter to complete tasks as assigned.
· Guided: Willing to seek guidance while carrying out instructions furnished in written or verbal form and takes task approach to ensure assignments are accomplished according to the guidelines and schedules.
· Tech-Savvy: Knowledge and use of relevant PC software applications and skills to use them effectively.
· Adaptable: Adaptability and resilience in fast-paced environments typical of innovative medical technology companies.
· Regulations: Understanding of medical device industry regulations and standards (e.g., FDA, ISO 13485, IEC 60601).
· Global Collaborator: Success working with geographically-dispersed engineering teams across multiple locations.
· CAD and PLM: Demonstrated expertise in the area of CAD design and application of CAD tools, experience with SolidWorks and Windchill preferred.
· Manufacturing Knowledge: Understanding of manufacturing processes such as machining, 3D printing, molding, etc.
Or- An equivalent competency level acquired through a variation of these qualifications may be considered.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
- Must either have a current passport or be eligible to obtain a passport and US Visa.
JOB TITLE: Mechanical Engineer I
JOB SUMMARY
Are you ready to embark on an exhilarating journey where your engineering skills can help save patients? As a Mechanical Engineer at Terumo Costa Rica, you'll dive into the thrilling world of medical device development, contributing to both innovative designs and sustaining activities. You'll be at the forefront of technological advancement and patient safety, creating solutions that make a real difference in people's lives.
This role is perfect for someone who is passionate about engineering, eager to learn, and ready to collaborate with a dynamic team to drive healthcare innovation. Join us and grow your technical skills while having fun and making a meaningful impact!
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
· Innovate and Create: Engage in mechanical technology assessments and concept designs during development phases, using your creativity and engineering judgment to drive innovation and technical feasibility decisions.
· Ensure Excellence: Contribute to mechanical characterization, verification, and validation activities at both the component and system level, ensuring product performance, safety, and compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
· Lead Projects: Participate in project management responsibilities, including report writing, planning, scheduling, and cost control.
· Design with Impact: Perform evaluation, selection, and substantial adaptation of standard techniques to create innovative mechanical designs for medical devices.
· Collaborate and Lead: Actively participate in design reviews, offering innovative approaches, and researching new mechanical technologies to maintain technological leadership.
· Solve Problems: Identify and mitigate mechanical safety risks throughout the product lifecycle, applying creative problem-solving to address technical challenges and avoid manufacturing delays.
· Drive Improvement: Track and improve key mechanical engineering metrics to drive continuous improvement in design quality and efficiency.
· Stay Compliant: Implement and understand FDA or regulatory requirements as necessary, ensuring compliance with Quality System regulations and safe working practices.
· Document and Communicate: Prepare and review engineering/technical documents such as reports, SOPs, protocols, change notices , schedules, budgets, and vendor-provided documents and drawings.
· Be Inquisitive: Take initiative and demonstrate inquisitive approaches to solve moderately complex problems, identifying problems, generating alternatives, and recommending solutions.
· Enhance Processes: Follow department processes and regularly make recommendations to improve them.
· Support Projects: Develop reports, charts, and graphs to support project recommendations and respond to questions from technical staff members and management.
· Teamwork: Work cooperatively and effectively in a team environment or across teams to achieve common goals and results.
· Analyze and Present: Analyze data and present it in appropriate forums.
· Quality Focus: Actively participate in Quality System and Design Controls requirements, particularly with respect to documentation.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
Education
Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering is preferred.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job may be considered.
Experience
Relevant internship or project experience in mechanical engineering, preferably with a focus on medical device development.
Skills
· Problem Solver: Demonstrated ability to develop solutions to technical problems, make appropriate decisions, and meet time constraints.
· Planner: Planning skills to prioritize and execute multiple projects.
· Learner: Demonstrated desire to continually learn and keep up with changing technology.
· Innovator: Knowledge of manufacturing protocols, statistical tools, methodology, and continuous improvement techniques preferred.
· Engineer: Possess ability to apply fundamental techniques and latest principles of technology to develop and enhance projects.
· Communicator: English communication skills for articulating complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, including senior management.
· Leadership: Ability to coordinate design transfer of product specific to the project.
· Team Player: Able to work cooperatively and effectively in a team environment to achieve common goals and results.
· Self-Starter: Shows initiative as a self-starter to complete tasks as assigned.
· Guided: Willing to seek guidance while carrying out instructions furnished in written or verbal form and takes task approach to ensure assignments are accomplished according to the guidelines and schedules.
· Tech-Savvy: Knowledge and use of relevant PC software applications and skills to use them effectively.
· Adaptable: Adaptability and resilience in fast-paced environments typical of innovative medical technology companies.
· Regulations: Understanding of medical device industry regulations and standards (e.g., FDA, ISO 13485, IEC 60601).
· Global Collaborator: Success working with geographically-dispersed engineering teams across multiple locations.
· CAD and PLM: Demonstrated expertise in the area of CAD design and application of CAD tools, experience with SolidWorks and Windchill preferred.
· Manufacturing Knowledge: Understanding of manufacturing processes such as machining, 3D printing, molding, etc.
Or- An equivalent competency level acquired through a variation of these qualifications may be considered.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
- Must either have a current passport or be eligible to obtain a passport and US Visa.
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