Verathon is a global medical device company focused on supporting customers by being their trusted partner, delivering high-quality products that endure over time and ensure clinical and economic utility. Two areas where Verathon has significantly impacted patient care, and become the market leader in each, are bladder volume measurement and airway management. The company’s BladderScan portable ultrasound and GlideScope video laryngoscopy & bronchoscopy systems effectively address unmet needs for healthcare providers and meaningfully raise the standard of care for patients. Verathon, a subsidiary of Roper Technologies, is headquartered in Bothell, Washington, USA and has international subsidiaries in Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit www.verathon.com.

Verathon® is looking for a Mechanical Engineer to become the newest member of our RSS R&D Team located in Burnaby, British Columbia.

The Mechanical Engineer is responsible for designing and developing robust and innovative medical devices and equipment to support the commercialization of company developed products. The responsibilities include cost estimation, design, verification, and validation. Device and equipment design includes active and passive electromechanical structures and mechanisms with various degrees of freedom.

• Research design options and perform experiments to determine potential design feasibility
• Develop and test new manufacturing processes
• Work closely with electrical and software engineers, designing with system-wide perspective
• Interact with global and internal design and manufacturing resources to design for manufacturability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness
• Follow all policies, procedures, and standards for engineering documentation to ensure compliance with corporate document management policy
• Review product documentation for accuracy including documentation intended for customer use
• Participate in all designing, prototyping, testing and qualification of mechanical designs for high-reliability and high-performance medical devices
• Participate in or support risk assessment, design reviews, pre-production, pilot production, testing, and regulatory submission
• Support production activities and resolve issues quickly
• Evaluate product non-conformances and recommend design modifications
• Support the development of intellectual property

• 2-4+ years of technical product or mechanical device design and manufacturing (depending on job level)
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering is required; Masters preferred
• Proficient knowledge of and ability to use SolidWorks and SolidWorks add-ins
• Experience in all areas of design, prototyping, testing and qualification
• Experience with plastic injection mold tool design including insert molding and over-molding
• Proven skills in developing projects in a medical device R&D department
• Experience in technical team-focused workplace
• Ability to write concisely and accurately with meticulous attention to detail and clarity
• EIT Required, P.Eng. preferred from EGBC
• Experience with Medical Device Directive (MDD), ISO 13485, FDA design controls or similar regulatory environment is preferred

We are hiring E2 and E3 levels and your experienced will be assessed against the appropriate level.