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Design Engineer - Medical (Hybrid)

Smiths Interconnect
Kansas, MO Full Time
POSTED ON 3/4/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/2/2025

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

About Smiths Interconnect :

Smiths Interconnect, is a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance interconnect solutions. Our products are used in mission-critical applications across industries such as aerospace, defense, telecommunications, and industrial markets. At Smiths Interconnect, we are committed to innovation, quality, and providing cutting-edge solutions that connect the world’s most demanding systems.

Smiths Interconnect is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, to help create a safer, more efficient and productive, and better-connected world across four global markets : energy, security & defense, space & aerospace and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs c.16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries.

Job Description

Job Purpose :

  • Design and develop innovative new products and technologies to robust quality standards and in a manner consistent with business strategy and processes
  • Demonstrate end-to-end product lifecycle ownership that supports achievement of vitality and growth targets that outperform our chosen market segments.

Responsibilities :

  • Develops technology and process know-how to ensure designs are technologically competitive
  • Create detailed connector, contact, and cable designs
  • Lead / support group design reviews using calculations, experimental results, or other verification methods
  • Interpret product specifications and translate them into design and / or manufacturing requirements
  • Coordinate the construction of functional and non-functional prototypes with internal and external vendors
  • Manage / support project management of all assigned tasks. Establish timelines for all project tasks and follow-up with project team on task status
  • Provide technical support to organizational stakeholders including Manufacturing, Quality, Marketing and Sales
  • Perform root cause analyses utilizing established problem-solving tools and methodologies
  • Support Sales and Marketing in preparing quotations and bid packages
  • Demonstrate behaviors consistent with the Smiths Way value system
  • Qualifications

    Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering with 5 years of relevant experience
  • Capable use of SolidWorks modeling, drawing and mechanical simulation packages
  • Experience selecting engineering grade polymers, metals, platings, composites, and alloys
  • Design for manufacturability utilizing machining, molding, turning, stamping and / or additive manufacturing methods
  • Knowledge of contact termination, strain relief and over-molding techniques and principles
  • Hands-on prototype development experience and rapid prototyping
  • Application of FMEA and tolerance analysis tools (including application of GD&T) to inform robust design decisions
  • Awareness of EMI / RF shielding and IPXX sealing techniques beneficial
  • Knowledge of RF, digital, fiber optic, and power interconnects
  • Experience working with medical applications highly desirable
  • Familiarity with ISO13485, ISO9001, IEC 60601, and EIA-364
  • Planning and Decision Making :

  • Coordinates with cross functional project team to ensure milestones are achieved and risks are mitigated
  • Suggests changes in working conditions and use of equipment, systems, tools, and process to increase organizational efficiency
  • Analyzes and resolves work problems and / or assists others in solving work problems
  • Sets priorities and drives completion of needed deliverables with minimal assistance
  • Utilizes experience, analytical capacity, problem solving tools, and judgment to plan and accomplish goals
  • Additional Information

    Other Requirements :

  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts in verbal and written form using the English language
  • Frequently required to use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, and talk or hear.
  • Must occasionally lift and / or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.
  • Ability to be able to travel to Mexico for training twice a year.
  • Up to 10% travel may be required for training and / or other business purposes including customer and / or supplier visits.

    We will consider candidates located in Kansas City, MO or in Tijuana, MX for this role.

    Candidates from Mexico must be bilingual in English and Spanish and have the ability to travel for business.

    All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

    We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

    At no time during the hiring process will Smiths Group, nor any of our recruitment partners ever request payment to enable participation – including, but not limited to, interviews or testing. Avoid fraudulent requests by applying jobs directly through our career’s website (Careers - Smiths Group plc)

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