Innovation starts from the heart. At Edwards, we put patients first. We invest a significant proportion of our revenue towards research and development to drive and develop groundbreaking medical innovations for structural heart disease. As part of our R&D Engineering team, you will work closely with our Quality and Manufacturing teams to develop the latest tools and technologies to address significant, unmet clinical needs that impact patients' lives around the world.
Many structural heart patients suffer from heart failure with limited options. Our Implantable Heart Failure Management (IHFM) team is at the forefront of addressing these unmet patient needs through pioneering technology that enables early, targeted therapeutic intervention. Our innovative solutions are not just transforming patient care but also creating a unique and exciting environment for our team members. It's our driving force to help patients live longer and healthier lives. Join us and be part of our inspiring journey.
How you will make an impact:In this role you will lead a core R&D team in electrical hardware design, provide insights into best practices, and offer expertise and team support and mentoring.
- Manage a small team of electrical engineers. Develop team members to increase functional skills
- Plan and direct assigned operational and project activities with the accountability for successful completion of assigned deliverables
- Identify opportunities and lead the implementation of changes to drive improvements
- Work on complex issues where analysis of issues requires in-depth knowledge
- Create/update complex engineering documents including requirement specs, and risk documents with robust knowledge on design control requirements
- Own and oversee engineering tasks; provide technical guidance and feedback to technicians/engineers; Guide lower level employees on more complex procedures
- Other incidental duties
What you'll need (Required): - Bachelor's Degree in related field in related experience in engineering
- Experience with RF devices
- Experience working in a regulated industry
What else we look for (Preferred): - Electrical Engineering degrees very strongly preferred
- Experience developing RF handheld devices
- Experience developing Class II and III medical devices
- Ability to manage technical and/or engineering disciplines and demonstrated informal mentoring and/or peer leadership skills
- Proven successful project management skills
- Proven expertise in both Microsoft Office Suite and related systems
- Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills including high discretion/judgment in decision making
- Excellent documentation and communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills with ability to drive achievement of objectives
- Extensive understanding of engineering procedures while defining team operating standards
- Extensive understanding of related aspects of engineering processes and/or systems
- Basic financial acumen as it relates to engineering (e.g., material and capital expenditures and product costing)
- Demonstrated skill set to manage small team and provide coaching and feedback, including responsibility for all employee actions including hire/fire authority and partnering with HR on all aspects of employee relations
- Ability to influence cross-functional partners
- Ability to integrate metrics into the projects and operations
- Strict attention to detail
- Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization
- Ability to work and excel within a fast paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment
- Primarily interacts with internal subordinates and other supervisors
- Typically interacts with external suppliers, vendors and/or customers
- Share information and provides basic problem solving solutions; gains cooperation of others, conducts presentations of technical information concerning specific projects or schedules
- Dedicated to quality client service and pro-active and responsive to client needs.
- Develop peer, cross functional and cross business relationships to maximize best practice sharing and team effectiveness
- Adhere to all company rules and requirements (e.g., pandemic protocols, Environmental Health & Safety rules) and take adequate control measures in preventing injuries to themselves and others as well as to the protection of environment and prevention of pollution under their span of influence/control
Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families.
For California (CA), the base pay range for this position is $121,000 to $171,000 (highly experienced).
The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience). Applications will be accepted while this position is posted on our Careers website.
Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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