Research & Development Director

Purpose of the position

• Develop the existing products and services and research for new technologies to establish high performance of the product and process

Responsibilities & duties

• Estimate costs and prepare budgets
• Contributes as a team member on development projects carrying out assigned Responsibilities in a timely, diligent, safe, and professional manner, may act as a project leader.
• Conducts user/ergonomic studies with clinical professionals during the product development process in pursuit of user-based product design excellence.
• Supports the organization’s intellectual property strategy by documenting data and independent, unique and patentable ideas that results from experimentations and concept generation activities.
• Leads the design and development of new product and product engineering and applies engineering best practices and tools. Provides leadership in design analysis.
• Ensures quality in a product’s design for usability, reliability, functionality, Market ability, and manufacturability.
• Supports the development of products through knowledge of the clinical and physical performance requirements. This includes all aspects of the product design criteria, product function and customer needs.
• Keeps abreast of latest developments in process technology. This includes molding, automated assembly, packaging, and sterilization. Researches new processes or materials processing technologies for possible new product development.
• Leads product design verification and validation to satisfy product and customer requirement.
• Applies Design to Cost and Design for Manufacturability methods to support project leader in achievement of project objectives.
• Provides technical support to Unit Business