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Uttlesford, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid
Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases.
We have been included on number of award lists that demonstrate the impact we are making.
Our Global Device Development is an innovative, technically-excellent and fully integrated organization, delivering access to high quality, safe, robust and effective device and combination products to meet the worlds’ evolving patient healthcare needs. We develop device technologies to enable drug-delivery for respiratory, biologic, biosimilar and injectable products, and work across Viatris to support innovative technology solutions to provide healthcare solutions for our patients. We operate from 4 sites: Dublin, Ireland, Cambridge & Sandwich, UK and Southpointe, Pittsburgh, USA. Every member of our team is dedicated to creating better health for a better world, one person at a time. This position will lead assigned programs within the DDI portfolio stream, including complex injectables and feasibility projects, ensuring successful delivery against agreed objectives and key milestones such as Design Reviews and Regulatory Submissions, whilst leading the end-to-end management of device design (medical device, combination product including all packaging and labelling) and associated documentation.
For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.
The Role & What You Will Be Doing
Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Senior Device Design Engineer role will make an impact:
Ensure clear prioritisation of project deliverables in alignment with Viatris, Global R&D and GDD strategic objectives.
Drive a “right first time” approach to high-quality submissions, ensuring timely delivery of DHF documentation and submission packages while embedding continuous improvement to enhance content quality and reduce review cycle iterations.
Maintain full compliance with procedural standards and QMS training requirements, championing best practices in documentation management, traceability, a single source of truth, and secure handling of documents across internal and external stakeholders.
Possess a strong Design Engineering/Product Development background with a naturally inquisitive mindset focused on understanding problems deeply and developing effective, innovative solutions, translating stakeholder needs into design requirements and identifying technical challenges, risks and design optimisation opportunities.
Lead the development of combination products from concept through to design transfer, leveraging engineering analysis and problem-solving methodologies such as root cause analysis, hand calculations, CFD, FEA and tolerance analysis.
Demonstrate advanced proficiency in CAD design, including the creation of fully dimensioned 2D technical drawings and specifications, applying GD&T principles to ensure designs are robust, manufacturable and compliant with industry standards.
Develop and evaluate prototype components and devices through hands-on testing, functional verification and performance analysis, using data-driven insights to refine and improve designs.
Proactively identify, assess and mitigate technical risks in accordance with ISO 14971, ensuring appropriate risk controls are implemented and maintained throughout the product lifecycle, with a strong understanding of risk management techniques such as FMEA and FTA.
Represent the Device Design & Industrialisation function within cross-functional program teams, supporting effective planning and execution of design and development activities.
Ensure full compliance with Quality Management Systems (ISO 13485) by generating, reviewing and approving high-quality technical documentation, including DHF deliverables such as drawings, specifications, change controls, dFMEAs, risk management files, BOMs, CAD models and technical reports.
Maintain high standards of technical documentation writing, ensuring clarity, accuracy and compliance with internal procedures and regulatory expectations, with willingness to travel regularly between Dublin, Cambridge and Sandwich sites and occasionally internationally as required.
About Your Skills & Experience
For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:
Bachelor’s degree or Master’s Degree in Product Design, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline, with proven experience in a similar related role.
End-to-end development of combination products or medical devices from concept generation through design transfer.
Application of structured engineering methodologies to resolve complex design challenges, with a strong analytical mindset.
Strong proficiency in CAD design, using SolidWorks and/or Creo.
Experience in tolerance stack-up analysis, mathematical modelling, FEA and CFD.
Experience with ISO 13485 Quality Management Systems and ISO 14971 Medical Device Risk Management.
Ability to work as part of a dynamic, fast-paced team, with good influencing skills and the ability to think on your feet and be accountable for timely completion of deliverables.
Excellent interpersonal skills and experience of working in a multidisciplinary environment.
Strong time-management skills, resilience and resourcefulness, with the ability to navigate multiple projects and changing priorities.
Experience of designing components for plastic injection moulding.
Project management training and/or Lean Six Sigma accreditation.
At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.
Benefits at Viatris
At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. Some of our benefits include the following on top of a competitive salary:
Excellent career progression opportunities
Work-life balance initiatives
Bonus scheme
Health insurance
Pension
Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris
At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion
Sustainability at Viatris
Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility
At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others.
Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.