Product Designer

At **Eakin**Healthcare**, we put our patient at the heart of everything we do.

Fifty years ago, it all started with one man’s mission: pharmacist Tom George Eakin. He saw his patients struggling with leaking urostomy pouches and decided enough was enough. He got to work and formulated what would become the game-changing _eakin Cohesive® seal_.

Fast forward to today, and we’re still keeping it in the family. We’ve grown a lot since then—both organically and through acquisitions. We now have a team of over 700 colleagues across three manufacturing sites and 12 sales and distribution centres. We’re making a difference in three therapeutic areas:

- Ostomy
- Respiratory
- Surgical

We’re proud to export our innovative products to over 60 countries through a network of 40 distributors plus our own offices in Japan, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg.

We’re good at what we do - come and join us and benefit from:

- Blended Working
- Free on-site car parking
- Bonus
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 28)
- Option to buy holiday days
- Wellbeing Programme
- Health Cash Plan
- Pension
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Referral Scheme
- Long Service Awards

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

Demonstrating a high level of competency in CAD modelling and analytical review and having the requisite skills required to work in medical device design and design-for-manufacturing, this role enables the skilled Product Designer to bring-to-life the concepts and ideas around innovation for device clinical effectiveness and patient safety.

Based in Coleraine and focusing primarily on medical devices for anaesthesia and critical care settings, success in the role will be reflected in the individual’s high productivity when working in effective teams - translating concepts and ideas into medical devices integrated within manufacturing systems having gained regulatory approval for their use on patients.

Ongoing development in the role is facilitated by involvement in many facets of maintaining medical devices on the market - including involvement in projects to improve the design of devices through iterative changes.

**KEY ACTIVITIES**
- Conceptualising design ideas through CAD modelling, prototyping and proof-of-concept activities
- Translating caregiver and patient clinical requirements into proposed designs
- Maintaining Design Control documentation and records in accordance with QMS requirements
- Building documented evidence to prove that medical devices are safe and effective when designed and approved for production, including originating design FMEAs and participating in clinical risk management activities
- Designing-for-manufacture, including mould design and downstream product realisation activities - such as device assembly, testing, packaging and labelling
- Investigative work, leading to iterative design changes and corrections to existing medical devices

**Other**
- To adhere to the company’s Equal Opportunities policy and Dignity at work policy in all activities and to actively promote equality of opportunity wherever possible
- To be responsible for your own health and safety and that of your colleagues, in accordance with the company’s’ Health and Safety policy
- To adhere to the company’s Quality policy and Environmental policy
- To undertake other duties as may be reasonably required

**KEY SKILLS**
- Translating clinical requirements to design and manufacturing innovations
- CAD modelling
- Analytical review
- Report writing
- Rough prototyping
- Documenting evidence generation
- Presentation skills

**Essential**
- Degree level qualification in product design or mechanical engineering design
- Proficiency in CAD modelling
- Strong analytical skills
- Excellent numerical skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- High degree of personal organisational discipline
- Strong cognitive recall capability
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to deliver goals and objectives on time

**Desirable**
- Competency in Solidworks CAD
- Competency in surface modelling, rendering and animation
- Competency in rough model prototyping
- Experience in biomedical sciences or biomedical engineering
- Experience of product design for medical devices
- Strong IT skills (including Microsoft 365 Office)

**KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS**

**Internal**
- Design colleagues, Production departments, Commercial, Marketing, Operations, Regulatory, Quality Management departments.

**External**
- Consultants, hospitals, engineering suppliers, 3rd level educators, test houses, QMS auditors

**ADDITIONAL INFORMATION**
- Based in Coleraine
- Occasional travel to other Eakin Healthcare sites as and when required

**COMPETENCIES**

**Customer Focus**

Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.

**Manages Complexity**

Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.