Product Development Manager - Medical Device

Departmental Manager providing direct management of engineers, supervisors, and technicians. Allocates resources based upon departmental plans & budgets. Responsible for hire/fire decisions within their department. Submits departmental budgets,

performance / productivity targets and reports on results. Measured against performance plan goals and objectives.

The primary role of the Product Development Manager is to plan, organize and direct engineers to meet company objectives for design, development of new products and make improvements to existing products by performing the following duties personally or through subordinates. This manager ensures that all engineering activities are completed on time and conform to the standards as established by design control procedures.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervise the team of engineers within the product development department.

• Responsible for the development of new products as determined by the company’s product development roadmap. Continually researches for new methods or components to enhance or improve existing products.

• Prepare and/or review engineering change requests; coordinate cross functional teams to determine feasibility, develop and oversee preparation and implementation of all engineering change notices and document change control.

• Responsible for maintaining and implementing processes and procedures covered by design control.

• Assist quality and compliance in the implementation of the quality system including but not limited to support in conducting risk analysis, closing customer complaints, CARs, internal audits, and other activities covered by the quality system.

• Assist manufacturing operations with development of processes, tooling, molds, and design transfer necessary to produce new products.

• Provide customer service and sales & marketing departments with orientation and training on new products, and assist with preparation of sales presentations, service/repair methods, and marketing literature.

• Perform other duties as assigned