Product Development Engineer/Designer

Fresenius Medical Care is seeking support at its St. Wendel site to develop and improve tubing systems and components for haemodialysis. The role covers design, testing and moving new medical products into production.

• Develop tubing systems and components for haemodialysis (HD)
• Actively help define requirements
• Design new injection-moulded plastic parts and components for HD tubing systems using CAD
• Improve the design of new and existing components and parts for function, flow and cost
• Actively take part in technical discussions, review meetings and risk assessments
• Identify the need for feasibility tests and initiate, plan and carry out the required tests
• Plan and build test rigs
• Support verification testing
• Transfer new parts and products into production and support production launch
• Help solve quality problems, including finding the causes of design or manufacturing problems
• Actively take part in technical meetings, including risk assessments, defining design failure mode and effects analyses (dFMEA) and reviews, and in quality discussions, including finding the causes of design or manufacturing problems
• Support statistical data analysis
• Work across disciplines with relevant stakeholders
• Support studies of how materials interact with blood

• Completed engineering degree in mechanical engineering, medical engineering or electrical engineering
• Further training in project management is desirable
• Several years of experience in research and development and in developing and testing medical devices, preferably for blood treatment outside the body
• Very good spoken and written German and English
• Expert CAD skills
• Knowledge of polymer materials and the related manufacturing and assembly technologies
• Basic knowledge of flow simulations
• Knowledge of process engineering
• General knowledge of passive medical devices made from polymer materials
• Knowledge of dialysis machines and disposable products
• Willingness to travel