Wafer Process Development Manager jobs in Providence, RI

Confluent Medical Technologies is a financially healthy and rapidly growing medical device company whose employees are passionate about providing life-saving solutions to our customers through a collaborative and high-impact work environment.  Our moderate size, diversity of technologies, and broad material science capabilities provide an environment in which our employees can develop broad skill sets and directly influence product development and manufacturing outcomes

Position:  Textile Product/Process Development Engineer

Reports to:  Textile R&D Prototype Engineering Manager 

We’re looking for a Process Development Engineer-Staff, Textiles to join our Warwick, RI team. As a uniquely qualified candidate, you will:

Position Summary: 

• Design and develop prototype medical textile based structures and processes to demonstrate feasibility for meeting customer needs.  

• Develops products based on customer needs and specifications. 

• Researches and implements new technologies/capabilities required to meet customer’s needs

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Works independently under the direction of the Sr. R&D manager.

• Interact with customers, medical device engineers and sales team to understand the unmet needs and offer solutions.

• Selects preliminary materials, manufacturing techniques in developing textile components and related value added processes. 
• Develops costing for processes. 
• Leads the selection and development of new technologies, equipment, capabilities and processes.
• Interacts with outside vendors, suppliers, and consultants. 
• Provides technical support to sales, customers and operations. 
• Develops and executes design and process investigation and optimization activities, testing and produces corresponding reports.

• Supports the creation of risk management and design control documents – per ISO 13485 including process flow charts, PFMEA, and control plans.

Education and /or Experience

• MS in Biomedical Engineering, Textile Engineering or Materials Engineering.

• Minimum of 5 years as R&D Engineer MS (also, Protoype Engineer, Product Development Engineer). During which R&D Engineer is expected to develop textile-based solutions covering braiding, knitting, weaving, and non-woven. Minimum to have a strong background in knitting and weaving.  
• Min 3 years of experience designing manufacturing process with quality considerations.
• Six Sigma Black Belt certified.
• Min 1 year of experience of utilizing Design/Process Excellence tools (Lean Six Sigma tools, DOE, etc.).

Confluent Medical Technologies is dedicated to working collaboratively with our customers, taking their projects from rapid prototype into high volume production. Our unparalleled technical expertise, proven experience and partnership with our clients has allowed us to perfect the process necessary to deliver world-class medical devices through innovative material science, engineering, and manufacturing. Our primary capabilities include: Nitinol components and tubing, balloon expandable stents and catheters, complex catheters, biomedical textiles, and high precision polymer tubing. We take pride in our position as the leader in the medical technology space and are driven by a passion to create products that our clients have envisioned for their customers.

We regret that we are unable to sponsor employment visas or consider individuals on time-limited visa status for this position. 

Confluent Medical Technologies is an equal opportunity employer.

Only qualified candidates will be contacted.