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Engineer I, Components

Date: Apr 29, 2025

Location: Mansfield, MA, US

Company: Teleflex

Expected Travel : Up to 25%

Requisition ID :12121

About Teleflex Incorporated

As a global provider of medical technologies, Teleflex is driven by our purpose to improve the health and quality of people’s lives. Through our vision to become the most trusted partner in healthcare, we offer a diverse portfolio with solutions in the therapy areas of anesthesia, emergency medicine, interventional cardiology and radiology, surgical, vascular access, and urology. We believe that the potential of great people, purpose-driven innovation, and world-class products can shape the future direction of healthcare.

Teleflex is the home of Arrow™, Barrigel™, Deknatel™, QuikClot™, LMA™, Pilling™, Rüsch™, UroLift™ and Weck™ – trusted brands united by a common sense of purpose.

At Teleflex, we are empowering the future of healthcare. For more information, please visit teleflex.com.

OEM – Teleflex Medical OEM is a leading global provider of product development and production services for medical device manufacturers. We set ourselves apart with deep expertise, decades of experience, a dedication to design for manufacturability, and extensive, in-house capabilities, which include engineering, regulatory services, material selection and formulation, prototyping, manufacturing, assembly and packaging. We deliver industry-changing innovations and next-generation solutions for extrusions; diagnostic and interventional catheters; balloons and balloon catheters; sheath/dilator sets; specialty sutures, braids and fibers; and bioabsorbable sutures, yarns and resins. Join a dynamic, growing team that offers healthcare providers an array of medical technology solutions that make a difference in patients’ lives.

Position Summary

The Engineer I, Components, is responsible for assisting and supporting the execution and oversight of engineering projects and manufacturing activities within the Components Value Stream of the OEM Performance Fibers (sutures) business unit. With a focus on existing products/business such as supplier changes, regulatory and compliance-driven projects, cost improvement projects, process development and improvement, as well as design changes, they are responsible for supporting or leading projects of low complexity with minimal guidance, and more complex projects with a moderate to high level of guidance. They are also responsible for supporting manufacturing operations including the validation of new equipment and materials, troubleshooting processes, as well as identifying and implementing process/product improvements. The engineer will work with cross-functional teams to monitor and improve yields, resolve material issues, customer complaints, design and develop new product, and review potential new business opportunities.

The Engineer I, Components is expected to have a basic understanding of development, manufacturing, design control, medical device regulation, and project management. They will be expected to successfully support and carry out project deliverables, sustaining functions, and manufacturing activities with a focus on quality, compliance, and customer needs.

The scope of products for which the Engineer I, Components will be primarily responsible for supporting includes non-sterile suture components and contract manufactured suture components for use in suture medical devices for the Mansfield, MA, Coventry, CT, and Nuevo Laredo, MX facilities.

Principal Responsibilities

•Support or lead sustaining projects and project activities of low complexity with minimal guidance, and more complex projects with a moderate to high level of guidance.

•Support low complexity manufacturing activities and issues with minimal guidance, and moderate to highly complex activities and issues with a moderate to high level of guidance.

•Identify opportunities and implement changes to reduce variation and improve scrap rates and productivity throughout the manufacturing process, from supplier management to distribution of product.

•Draft and route project initiation documents, identifying the required deliverables per local and global procedures, as well as governing regulations, with moderate guidance.

•Interface with cross functional teams to track project deliverables, responsibility, and progress.

•Coordinate and execute activities supporting sustaining initiatives and continuous improvement efforts such as procedure revisions, drawing reviews, creation of guidance documents, etc.

•Utilize available data to build timelines, task trackers, risk registers, meeting cadences, etc. based on basic knowledge of project management processes with moderate guidance.

•Assist with quoting exercises such as component sourcing, identification of project deliverables and risks, and timeline estimation, with guidance.

•Review and prepare status reports, modify schedules, and project plans as required.

•Manage stakeholder communication to ensure project status and/or related issues are effectively communicated. Collaborate with Sales and Customer Care to support customer communications.

•Support technical needs and inquiries for Sales, Quality, Regulatory, Marketing, and other cross functional teams.

•Investigate and identify design control requirements with guidance.

•Understand basic product and process capabilities to support Performance Fibers projects and initiatives.

•Review and create product/customer specification documents based on internally validated specifications and inspection criteria.

•Generate validation and verification protocols/reports, draft and review product labeling, initiate and manage sterility and biocompatibility assessments, as well as other design control related documents with a moderate to high level of guidance.

•Ensure Teleflex Medical OEM suture products meet customer and quality system requirements.

•Support root cause analysis investigations, NC’s and CAPA’s, and customer or project related problem resolution activities.

•Ensure proper creation and maintenance of drawings, procedures, design documents (DFMEA, FMEA, Traceability Matrix, etc.), as well as other technical documentation.

•Ensure projects are developed and documented compliant with the quality system.

•Collaborate to develop quality assurance, testing, regulatory compliance, and quality plans.

•Support, lead, and participate in design control reviews with guidance as needed.

•Utilize methods of Lean/6σ and other continuous improvement methods for factory improvement programs such as Enterprise Excellence.

•Adhere to and ensure the compliance of Teleflex's Code of Conduct, all Company policies, rules, procedures, and housekeeping standards.

•Employ an entrepreneurial spirit and mindset to support growth of the team and business.

•Other responsibilities as required.

Education / Experience Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in an Engineering or related technical discipline.

• 0-3 years of experience in medical device, regulated industry, or related field.

Specialized Skills / Other Requirements

• Has basic understanding of development and manufacturing processes.

• Is able to utilize available data to build timelines, task trackers, risk registers, meeting cadences, etc. based on basic knowledge of project management processes with moderate guidance.

• Demonstrates ownership of assigned tasks and takes responsibility for outcome. Works with direct manager to develop skillset with a view to individual execution. Develops proposed path based on sound logic and available information, with some guidance from direct manager.

• Ability to maintain a positive attitude and takes ownership and constructively collaborates with colleagues at all levels of the organization.

• Acknowledges conflict and works to constructively resolve, with support as needed. Understands the importance of multiple perspectives on a situation.

• Practices active communication internally. Can effectively communicate with customers with support.

• Has technical depth of understanding in SME areas in order to communicate technical feasibility of manufacturing.

• Exhibits the determination and curiosity to solve problems.

• Employs a systematic structured approach to problem solving with little guidance.

• Ability to handle multiple tasks and to prioritize/schedule work to meet project needs with routine supervision.

• Experience with Microsoft Office – PC, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

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At Teleflex, we follow a comprehensive hiring process. We do not accept unsolicited resumes from agency recruiters or 3rd party firms. We do not make unsolicited job offers. We do not ask for money or require equipment purchase up-front.

Teleflex Incorporated is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, sex, or veteran status. If you require accommodation to apply for a position, please contact us at: 877-880-8588 or Talent@Teleflex.com.

Teleflex, the Teleflex logo, Arrow™, Barrigel™, Deknatel™, QuikClot™, LMA™, Pilling™, Rüsch™, UroLift™ and Weck™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of Teleflex Incorporated or its affiliates, in the U.S. and/or other countries.

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