Graduate Engineer (Manufacturing)

At FlexMedical Solutions (FMS), we help our customers bring their ideas to life and create a healthier tomorrow, by providing contract design, development, and manufacturing services to medical device OEMs.

In our role as a Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisation (CDMO), we focus on the disposable component of diagnostic devices and have significant expertise with point of care (POC) in vitro diagnostic (IVD) tests. We provide full assay development services and have impressive inhouse engineering and manufacturing capabilities, allowing us to fabricate biosensors and assemble finished test cartridges; indeed, this extends to the formulation and deposition of chemistries.

Our modern facility is based in Livingston, central Scotland, less than 20 minutes from Edinburgh airport and 40 minutes from Glasgow. With a mixture of UK and international clients, we are a forward-looking organisation with an exciting future.

Role Description

As a recent engineering graduate, you will bring hands-on, technical expertise, and fresh thinking to the company.

As a contract business, we work on multiple projects simultaneously; this brings a lot of variety. You will contribute to customer specific contracts (developing and manufacturing diagnostic products on their behalf) and work on internal development programmes. This will also see you contributing to the development of new products and processes using design control process.

Reporting to the Technical Manager, you will spend the first 12 months of a 24 month development plan within our manufacturing and operations area, developing hands on experience learning our manufacturing processes. The latter 12 months will provide an opportunity for you to spend focused time in key areas of the organisation immersing in product design, product development, process engineering, and CAD, with the purpose of becoming a fully rounded expert in the manufacturing process of POC diagnostic test consumables. We will provide the opportunity for immediate learning to allow you to be contributing effectively to the business from the start.

Working for a scaling organisation will provide you with tremendous opportunity to apply your academic achievements to an essential industry sector, making your mark and implementing your ideas.

Key Responsibilities

You will:

• Work as part of the operations team to solve challenges within our manufacturing areas
• Gain an understanding of all FMS processes and procedures to enable your effective contribution
• Apply existing engineering knowledge to help develop a range of products and components across multiple projects
• Assist product developers within the business with discreet work packages, utilising existing and newly developed skills
• Support project leads to determine process optimisation such as yield improvements
• Author, oversee, and execute protocols, and produce reports

Skills, Knowledge and Experience required

• A minimum of an HND (or equivalent) in a relevant engineering subject
• Demonstrable engineering design skills developed through your academic endeavours
• Competent to perform statistical analysis on data using tools such as Minitab
• Computer Aided Design (CAD) and 3D modelling skills via packages such as Solidworks
• Good communication skills (written and verbal)
• Understand Design for Manufacture (DFM) methodology.
• Knowledge of point of care diagnostics
• Industrial placement / employment experience in an industry relevant to your degree

FlexMedical Solutions is an evolving, scaling organisation, in a highly regulated industry. The company is enjoying growth through success and is working on a number of leading-edge projects with exciting customers.

It is a changing environment that requires you to be very flexible and willing to learn and grow with the company. It is essential that you communicate effectively with your colleagues and contribute to the company's success. As a provider of sub-contract services, working for FlexMedical Solutions will bring a lot of variety and excitement. Initiative will be rewarded, and personal development is a given.

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Please send your CV and a covering letter, outlining your suitability for the post:

Alternatively, you may apply in writing to: FlexMedical Solutions, 1 Eliburn Office Park, Livingston EH54 6GR

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