Bio-Engineering - Student Placements 2019

Job description

Job Description

Requisition ID: 00001DCM

Bio-engineer Industrial Placement

Duration : 12 months
Location: Leeds, Yorkshire
Sector: Medical Devices

What type of mark will you make?

Your unique talents and perspective can make a vital contribution to innovative products that improve the lives of people everywhere. Career opportunities within Johnson & Johnson companies may provide you with an ideal setting to build your experience; express your passion and touch the world.

Position summary

Our engineering teams make a positive impact on virtually every aspect of our business. They help to manufacture our products, create new medical breakthroughs and are also responsible for everything from material sciences and packaging to operations and facilities management.

DePuy Synthes create products that reconstruct diseased or damaged joints, repair skeletal injuries, correct spinal injuries or deformities and also provide surgical treatments for neurological disorders. These products change the lives of our patients and present unique and rewarding challenges for our engineering teams.

If you join DePuy Synthes as a Bio-engineer student you will work alongside a team who specifically work on developing products for knee replacements. You will gain exposure to designing implants and surgery procedures, test products and develop new concepts for medical devices. Throughout the year you will provide support/assistance for specifying product designs and influencing the choice of raw materials, processes and equipment necessary to develop and manufacture products.

Main duties and responsibilities
·  Assist in providing technical support for products in development, and existing product lines to markets and other functions
·  Assist in the preparation of documentation for Design History Files and project documentation in accordance with regulatory and company procedures
·  May handle several projects concurrently depending on the magnitude of each
·  Work closely with surgeons to gain an in-depth understanding of the knee replacement procedure
·  Work alongside the design engineer to implement tools to improve procedure
·  Test products (either computationally or physically)

Desired profile

Qualifications

Requirements of the role
·  2 years of degree level study completed
·  A minimum of 2:1 achieved in first year of study
·  Engineering degrees preferred – bio or medical engineering, mechanical engineering, materials engineering, automotive engineering and similar
Key skills and competencies
·  Patient and high level of attention to detail
·  Good grounding of engineering principles
·  Fastidious and accurate
·  Creative and innovative thinker
·  Excellent research skills
·  Appreciation of human factors and biology
·  Strong interpersonal and communication skills
·  Experience using CAD is advantageous

The assessment centre for this role will be 17th January 2019

Please note: This role will close for applications on the 15th December 2018
Primary Location
United Kingdom-England-Leeds-
Organization
DePuy UK Holdings Limited (8721)
Job Function
R&D
Requisition ID
00001DCM

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