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Pump wherever life takes you.
We’re Willow, a team of inventors, mothers, fathers, aunties and uncles on a mission to help women live their best lives. Selected as one of TIME’s 25 Best Inventions, the Willow Wearable Breast Pump is the first all-in-one pump that fits in a bra. This is the first solution in our platform of products that re-imagines how to make women’s lives easier, healthier and fuller.
We’re always on the lookout for talented, passionate team players to help us deliver our mission. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!
Summary
Works independently or in a lead role on the design and development of products. Exercises independent judgment in identifying, recommending and implementing significant and/or complex design improvements to meet product development and regulatory requirements. May lead technical teams in the accomplishment of mechanical engineering activities. Communicates effectively and participates on cross functional development teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead projects for released products to reduce costs and improve performance, quality and reliability.
- Interface cross-functionally to identify opportunities and solve product related issues, closing the technical gaps in engineering, manufacturing and customer care.
- Support the sourcing organization and supplier partners to optimize supply chain performance.
- Manage and prioritize workload, develop project plans and oversee project execution.
- Develops significant design specifications, FMEAs, DOEs, verification and validation protocols for new mechanical designs.
- Participates in technical design reviews of products and design requirements documents.
- Establish internal test standards, methods and test fixtures for product reliability and factory.
Qualifications
- 10 yrs relevant experience and a BS degree or 8 yrs relevant experience and a MS degree.
- Experience in engineering management or technical leadership desirable.
- Good knowledge of general engineering principles. Knowledge of regulations for medical device development (ISO13485, FDA) a plus.
- Strong technical experience in mechanical engineering discipline with excellent written and verbal communication skills is essential.
- Extensive understanding of processes and materials used in high volume manufacturing.
Experience in the following:
- Design for manufacture of complex electro-mechanical products.
- Expertise with advanced features in SolidWorks, including surfacing, design for injection molding and master model integration. Experience in NX a plus.
- Familiarity with geometric tolerancing and ANSI documentation.
- Performing complex engineering calculations and relating results to controlled tests, including statistical analysis, tolerance analysis.
- Writing product requirements and design specifications.
- Support equipment/facility/process commissioning and validation desired. Manufacturing experience a plus.
- Working on a development team with an emphasis on minimizing time to market.
- Experience working in cross-functional team environments is required.
- Experience in product development in a regulated environment a plus.