Global Head of Engineering

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9 months ago

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Our client is designing and manufacturing cutting-edge edge patient-specific medical devices, including anatomical models, surgical cutting guides and complex custom implants for a variety of clients such as the NHS and leading medical device manufacturers.

Due to their continued growth, they are now looking for a Global Head of Engineering to join their team.

Key responsibilities:

Management & Leadership of the growing UK and US Engineering Team (including staff welfare, attendance, performance and career progression pathways)
Implement and identify to management suitable processes to promote company's latest growth (e.g. departmental structure, renumeration, bonus schemes etc)
Establish and supervise training programmes to induct new engineering staff into the business, recording necessary details to feed into the qualification requirements of the Quality Management System.
Establish and supervise training programmes to for Level 1/2/3 new engineering staff.
Quality Management throughout the device design and manufacture workflow – working with the Head of QMS to ensure that processes are monitored, documented and adhered to by all staff.
Management and scheduling of projects to deliver efficiently, on time and in full.
Metrics for employee and project performance to measure success and suggest key development opportunities, reporting in regularly to senior management team.
Continual management of the scheduling, efficiency and working environment of engineers.
Lead the ongoing recruitment of the growing team. Collaborating with internal/external resources where appropriate. Including technical evaluation of new candidates, recommendations to help objective decision-making throughout the hiring process.
Lead by example on the design function within the product workflow, including hands-on segmentation and free-form design of patient-specific devices, according to internal QMS procedures.
An excellent level of technical knowledge related to human anatomy/biomedical engineering, additive manufacturing to lead and mentor the team.

To be considered for the role, you must closely match the following job profile:

Engineering Degree (Biomedical specialisation preferred).
At least 5 years’ experience leading a team of engineers in a commercial environment.
Sector-specific knowledge of the orthopaedic market (preferably in or alongside the design of patient-specific surgical devices).

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