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Contrary to news reports of certain medical device companies offering voluntary redundancies due to restructuring to keep the company afloat, there are other medical device companies in the country that are in fact taking people on! Validation or Engineering anyone?

The following are the openings within Med Device at the moment:

• Quality Validation Manager – 7-8 yrs exp Med Device or high volume manufacturing
• Senior Mechanical Eng – 5-8 yrs exp Med Device or high volume manufacturing
• Senior Electrical Facilities Eng – 5-8 yrs exp with high volume facility
• EMEA Procedural Kitting Director – 10yrs++ exp in manufacturing and medical kits

So whether you are working at the moment or being offered redundancy and want a fresh look at the med device market at the moment, contact us here for a full job description or to register your interest in future medical device jobs!

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Have you Got What it Takes

Are proficient with Procedural Kits?

Have you a long standing background in QA/ RA in the Medical Device industry?

Are you up to date with Product Development and CE Marking?

We may have the perfect job for you!

We have an urgent requirement for a Procedural Kitting Director in the Midlands

• Candidates must be Degree qualified in a relevant Engineering/ QA subject
  MBA qualified is a distinct advantage
• 5 years minimum experience required in Medical Devices
• Reporting to the VP of Marketing & Product Development, candidates must have product development experience, ideally in QA/RA or procedural kits.
• Must be flexible and willing to travel overseas often
• This is a permanent Medical Device Kitting Director position

If this is for you get in touch!

I would love to hear from you!

Medical Device Product R&D

What does it take to be Head of R&D?  To be head of R&D in a major medical device company, the ideal candidate for this role generally needs to be capable of leading engineers, scientists and technicians usally being cogniscent of efforts taking place at various sites both at home in Ireland and around the globe. They also need to communicate effectively between the sales and marketing front end of the business as well as the R&D Facilities.

Commercially R&D Managers need to review the market competition and to give the R&D function pragmatic, realistic and practical product projects to bring them to the market. Within the medical device sector this will also involve working closely with doctors and key opinion leaders to identify and progress new technologies, to improve existing product designs and to seek new clinical applications for existing technologies.

R& D Managers direct engineering operations and carry out scientific assessments of new technologies, products, concepts and applications and solutions. They work very closely with QA/Regulatory affairs to define the transfer over of these products to manufacturing operations. R&D Managers also heavily influence the tactical and strategic direction of the companies they work for through the sharing of their technical knowledge and the guidance and influence they have on people, programs and technology

Polymer applications appear to be limited only by our imagination

Polymer Engineering is one of the more exotic engineering disciplines which has expanded and developed a critical function within the medical device manufacturing sector in the past 15 years.

What is polymer engineering? Polymer Engineering is a field of engineering that deals with the analysis, design and modification of polymer materials and involves aspects of a variety of the pertochem industry including structure and characterisation as well as compounding, properties and processing of polymers and their applications.

These are then divide into thermoplastics and thermosets, the latter being consisting of resins and polyesters which can be used in composite materials which have applications in aerospace and automotive products etc.

Thermoplastics tend to have low density characteristics including transparencywhich makes them ideal for medical devices such as blood bags, syringes or contact lenses (PET or polypropylene).

Elastomers are ploymers with low tensile moduli and are excellent for vibration absorbtion and damping and have applications in areas of products such as Tyres.

Recruitment prospects then for polymer engineers are quiet good even despite the economic downturn as several industries have considerable demand in their manufacturing processes for polymer or process engineers who are key to the manufacture of advanced medical devices or automotive components or indeed for further scientific Research and Development.

Medical Devices

Welcome again to myscience jobs. Today we will look at the Medical Devices manufacturing industry and the growth in Medical devices job opportunities.

What are medical devices and why has there been such growth?  Medical devices consist of an extremely wide variety of products used with a medical purpose in patients applied to such aspects as diagnostics, therapy or surgical and the effect is generally physical.

They can be as simple as tongue depressors or  as complex as minute plastic components such as filter components used in kidney dialysis or as intricate as x-ray machines. Growth then has followed swiftly as a direct result of rapid advances in science and scientific discoveries which have in turn led to new applications of advanced materials; for instance, plastics or exotic polymers which have in turn resulted in the manufacturability of minute vascular components which to manufacture  less than a decade ago were undreamt of in term the size and quality that are now commonplace.

Further still we have seen the application of plastics in the manufacture of products expand to as diverse a range of products as gas permeable contact lenses, prosthetic limbs, monitoring devices, pacemakers and cheap disposable hypodermics  which can now be manufactured in the millions. This has resulted in a massive reduction in cost, allowing access to clean, safe, healthcare / medical devices previously beyond the financial affordability of many people who suffer from long term illnesses requiring for instance  the application of insuline, morphine or other life term medicines.

Small wonder then that Ireland has seen an explosion in the number of medical device manufacturing companies which have decided to capitalise on our local skill base  and opted to set up in Ireland. These multinationals range from Boston Scientific, to Johnson and Johnson. The consequence of these companies opening here then is a corresponding increase in demand for skilled polymer/process engineers,  materials and quality research specialists  amongst others to service these state of the art manufacturing facilities that continue to thrive despite a global economic downturn.

Opportunities do exist for those who are qualified and experienced, and for those Irish agencies who are specialists in the fields of  medical recruitment, recruiting for moulding technicians and process engineers amongst others, myscience jobs can proudly say that Jackie Brown Medical is well placed as a lead specialist life science recruitment firm in Irish Science Jobs for recruiting for the expanding  medical device manufacuring market that continues to offer careers with the potential for professional growth.