What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Lead Mechanical position at Flex LTD?
Job Posting Start Date 12-20-2024 Job Posting End Date 02-04-2025
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Job Summary
Farm, a Flex company, has over 45 years of experience providing award-winning development services for medical, life sciences, and consumer healthcare companies. Our talented researchers, designers, and engineers work in a highly collaborative environment on innovative products designed to improve people’s lives. At Farm, you’ll learn from bright, like-minded individuals excited to tackle the world’s healthcare technology challenges.
Farm is integral part of Flex, a global and multi-national design and manufacturing company that partners with the top medical device OEMs in the world.
Located in Southern, NH, our employees have the best of both city and country living with a convenient drive to Boston, the ocean, and the mountains. We attract talent from all over the world and offer competitive salaries and benefits.
Farm is seeking a highly collaborative and self-driven Technical Lead - Mechanical Engineer to join our talented and dynamic product development group and play a critical role in creating the next generation of advanced medical technologies.
What a typical day looks like:
- Work on a diverse range of innovative products, including connected health wearables, therapy systems, and surgical robotics.
- Engage with a variety of clients, from early-stage startups to Fortune 100 medical device companies.
- Serve as the mechanical technical lead on complex projects within a dynamic team environment.
- Conceptualize, investigate, develop, innovative product architectures through to design transfer into manufacturing.
- Advise on product development strategies, including scheduling, cost estimates, and resource allocation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to take a systems-level approach to product design and development.
- Deliver presentations to communicate design strategies, value propositions, and recommendations to clients and internal teams.
- Support business development engagements through capability presentations, technical assimilation, and authoring proposals.
The experience we’re looking to add to our team,
- Bachelors or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or similar.
- Requires 8 years of product development experience with a mix of early stage design, full development, and new product introduction, including electromechanical and medical devices.
- Experienced in contributing to product requirements, managing design risks, and leading teams to develop innovative designs and high-quality deliverables.
- Prefer experience in some of the following: engineering simulation, designing experiments, fluidic systems, robotics, catherters, materials, optics, protype coding, and sensor integration.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, complemented by a highly collaborative attitude and a proven ability to lead with accountability.
- Versatile in quickly assessing and resolving diverse product challenges, with in-depth knowledge of manufacturing and assembly processes, including plastic part design and metal fabrication.
- Proficient in using SolidWorks and/or Creo to address mechanical challenges and create high-quality CAD databases, prefer experience in CAD advanced surfacing.
What you’ll receive for the great work you provide:
- Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision
- Life Insurance
- Matching 401K
- PTO
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Employee discounts at local retailers
Job Category
Design, Process & Technology Engineering
Is Sponsorship Available?
No
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