Development Engineer II

Job Title

Zimmer Biomet is a global medical technology leader. Our team members are part of a company with a heritage of leadership, a focus on shaping the future, and a mission dedicated to alleviating pain and improving the quality of life for people around the world.

What You Can Expect

Responsible for the design, development, and processing of specialty instruments. Work is expected to encompass both the development of new products and maintenance of existing products. Position will lead development aspects of the project as a core team member. Engineers are expected to communicate with sales representatives and lead a large number of projects at one time. This is a hybrid position: 3 days on-site per week in Warsaw, IN.

How You'll Create Impact

• Leads the development of new products and manufacturing processes.
• Identifies all tasks required to complete project assignments according to Design Control procedures.
• Prepares work plans outlining estimated manpower requirements, cost, and timeline.
• Designs for manufacturability and for optimizing inspection and cost
• Conducts or participates in root cause analysis for problem solving
• Contributes to generation of a comprehensive protocol for testing/analyzing the product
• Coordinating product evaluation with surgeons or sales representatives
• Prepares new product specifications or modifies existing specifications
• Generates or updates design assurance and risk documentation for the product
• Completes stress analysis on new or existing designs
• Generates and/or manages the creation of prototype models to evaluate new design concepts

What Makes You Stand Out

• Working knowledge of new product development including project management of small-scale projects
• Demonstrated ability to methodically investigate, determine appropriate solution and resolve problems using current and new technologies
• Ability to develop project schedule, and to assess and manage cross functional team's progress on assignments relative to project schedule
• Ability to process customer complaints, engineering changes and nonconforming product, and make recommendations based upon business principles
• Professional, concise, tactful and sensitive in communications. Accomplishes objectives when communicating with internal personnel, and external customers and vendors
• Demonstrated good written and verbal communication skills including presentation skills
• Familiarity with drafting principals and/or geometric dimensioning and tolerancing preferred.
• Assures quality requirements are met
• Microsoft Office Suite and Projects

Your Background

• Minimum B.S. degree from an ABET accredited school (or global equivalent) in one of the following engineering disciplines: Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Technology, Biomedical Engineering, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering Technology, Bioengineering Technology, Aerospace Engineering or Aeronautical Engineering.
• 1 to 3 years of full-time (including relevant ZB Coop/Intern) engineering experience.

Travel Expectations

Up to 5%

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