Senior Reliability and Test Engineer
Owlstone Medical
Description
Owlstone Medical is a groundbreaking healthcare technology company on a mission to save 100,000 lives and save healthcare providers $1.5B. We are looking for a Senior Test & Reliability Engineer to join our team in Cambridge, UK. Our team is developing revolutionary products for the consumer healthcare market and we need an experienced, dedicated, and detail-oriented engineer to lead the test & reliability for these products. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and a thorough understanding of the importance of process. If you are driven, hardworking, and have a passion for healthcare technology, this is the perfect opportunity for you. Join us in our mission to revolutionize healthcare and make a real difference in people’s lives.
Responsibilities
- ○ Design, develop, and implement a reliability test process, with the ability to convert a URS, PRS and Engineering specification into a V&V plan
- ○ Identify and execute Robust Design tasks (e.g. design & process FMEAs)
- ○ Develop reliability qualification plans, to meet the project needs, providing status update to the project manager
- ○ Identify bespoke test jig / fixtures to enable testing
- ○ Conduct in depth analysis of reliability test failures, providing solutions
- ○ Should be able to develop a schedule for testing to be carried out. Actively manage internal resource and external test houses to ensure testing is completed as planned (and to the highest standard)
Requirements
Experience and Skills:
Experience of reliability testing of consumer focussed, high volume products within a health / medical setting. The individual has to be bright, driven and focused with a structured, methodical approach to problem solving and keen attention to detail. The successful candidate will have/be
- ○ Honours degree or equivalent, preferably Electronic, Mechanical, Manufacturing Engineering, or Physics
- ○ Electro-mechanical Systems Reliability Engineering experience (Hardware, and Software/Firmware)
- ○ Extensive experience in a product development / manufacturing environment , preferably complex, fast moving, high-tech
- ○ Experience of consumer healthcare reliability standards, and approaches is strongly preferred
- ○ Knowledge of reliability, environmental and life time testing
- ○ Multi-skilled, capable of solving wide-ranging technical problems working alongside the technical teams,
- ○ Experience of Identifying, managing, and collaborating with test houses
- ○ Reliability Engineering projects, Quality Systems, six-sigma would be advantageous including FMEA and Failure Analysis
Needs to be able to work with design teams to identify any bespoke test requirements such as fixtures. Should be able to create experimental test set-ups for the purpose of carrying out testing of products as defined in the V&V planned
Benefits
Owlstone Medical (www.owlstonemedical.com) is on a mission to save 100,000 lives and $1.5 billion in healthcare costs through the development and application of Breath Biopsy®. This involves collecting volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and respiratory droplets from breath, which can provide information about metabolic activity and markers related to health and disease.
Breath sampling has substantial advantages for the early detection of disease and to enable precision medicine approaches to patient care. To realize these advantages, Owlstone Medical offers Research Products and Services for biomarker discovery and is developing tests in applications including cancer, liver disease, asthma, and environmental exposure. Our work includes partnerships with major organizations including AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, the Cleveland Clinic, and the NHS, and our platform is in use at well over 100 clinical and academic sites worldwide.
The Owlstone group also commercializes a range of highly innovative products based on its proprietary FAIMS chemical sensing technology in other markets including Scientific, Industrial Process Control, Military and Homeland Defense.
We offer a relaxed, friendly, flexible and international working environment with a strong and vibrant team-spirit. You will be rewarded with a competitive salary package that includes an employee share options scheme and private medical insurance, and your work will have a clear impact on people’s lives. If you want to experience the buzz of a thriving start-up company set to succeed on a global scale, Owlstone Medical could be the place for you.
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