Senior Mechanical Engineer

Alcon

(Lake Forest, California)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About Alcon
Alcon, A Division of Novartis, is the global leader in eye care. Our mission is to discover new ways to enhance sight and improve people's lives. We were founded in 1945 as a small ophthalmic shop in Fort Worth, Texas. Over the past 70 years, we have become the world’s leading eye care company through a combination of innovative research and development, strategic acquisitions, and partnerships with renowned third-party organizations.
Responsibilities
* The Senior Engineer is responsible for the design of systems, subsystems, and/or components for a medical device as part of a new product development team and be involved in all phases of the product development from product concept through commercial launch and sustaining of marketed products. * The Senior Engineer improves product design or designs new product using sound engineering principles and achieves expertise in mechanical engineering. * Uses broad experience and high technical proficiency to execute projects on a variety of clinical and commercial Surgical Glaucoma procedure and White space applied research topics. * Designing new products and/or supporting product quality improvement for ophthalmic micro stent implant platform * Executes design to engineering standards. * Writes design verification/validation plan, perform testing and write verification/validation report. * Supports the development of new project proposals and execution of projects * Assures that new intellectual property is disclosed through MOI’s and that patent filings are fully supported
Ideal Candidate
* Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or plastics or related discipline with solid foundation in applied mechanics. * BS +7 yrs exp MS +5-8 yrs exp Ph.D. +2-5 yrs exp * Excellent written and verbal English communication skills with superior presentation capabilities, required. * Research and/or product development experience, preferably with Ophthalmic implantable medical devices focus * Plastic injection molding, extrusion, and plastic joining techniques * Strong experience with micro stent, catheter based technologies * Materials such as plastics, adhesives, stainless steel, nitinol, and small part mechanical design is desired. * Designing, developing, qualifying and launching medical products/technology * Determining engineering specifications, requirements, building prototypes and products * Extensive experience with fatigue analysis, fracture mechanics, fluid mechanics of medical products * Extensive experience in structural reliability testing and analysis of materials and/or implantable medical products * FEA, fatigue test method development, test method qualification and validation * Developing intellectual properties * CAD system knowledge * Strong interpersonal, people and process management, and problem solving skills

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