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Summary

A Systems engineering professional with experience in systems areas like Product Risk management, Product Requirements, System integration and Verification & Validation of medical devices. This position may own & perform Risk management activities for a family of dialysis devices as they are used in dialysis therapy, in accordance with the regulatory standards (main being ISO 14971).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performs the activities associated with the Risk Management of one or more products in various stages of the product lifecycle from new product development to post market surveillance.
• Performs risk assessment on an ongoing basis for any proposed design/material/process change or an observation in the field/service or manufacturing to determine the impact and need for any mitigation. Come-up with the recommended mitigation with the rationale.
• Ensure that no unacceptable risk goes undetected and unmitigated.
• Expedite, manage, and coordinate interrelated Risk Management activities across functions, within the constraints of human and financial resources and changing priorities.
• Participate in identifying and planning tasks, activities, and resourcing needs related to Risk Management.
• Facilitate an improved understanding of the interrelationship between Risk and Reliability.
• Working knowledge of FMEAs and standards applicable to Reliability Engineering.

• Provides subject matter expertise to product development teams to ensure Risk Management principles are applied throughout the development cycle.
• Leads Risk Management activities in coordination with other cross-functions like HW, SW, HF,…
• Collaborates with Engineering, Manufacturing and Service organizations in the development of design FMEA, Process FMEAs and roll-up into Risk Management files.
• Creates and approves Design History File deliverables associated with Risk Management.
• Provides ongoing risk analysis and identification of required risk mitigations to ensure safe, effective product.
• Able to analyze risk/tradeoffs and make recommendations of appropriate path forward.
• Successfully influences stakeholders and cross-functional team members within the project.
• Leverages knowledge of technology, process, and/or therapy domains to drive solutions and product design realization from a systems perspective.

Qualifications: 

• Must possess sound knowledge of systems engineering disciplines and related areas like Electro-mechanical systems with software. Working knowledge of materials, fluid mechanics.
• A demonstrated track record in electromechanical system development, preferably medical devices or other highly regulated products such as military hardware
• Proven ability to create results within budget, timeline, and product/project deliverable

Education and/or Experience: 

An engineering graduate in Electrical, Mechanical, Biomedical or related engineering discipline and -7-10 years of relevant experience. Prior experience in Medical/Renal device domain is a plus

Reasonable Accommodations

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