Graduate Design Engineer

Would you like to use your engineering skills to positively impact the human condition? Does interfacing with the world’s leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies excite you?

While we don’t make medicine, we facilitate the successful manufacture thereof - every single day.

If this sounds enticing to you, perhaps you’re a fit with our Applications Engineering team.

Who is Meissner?

The goal at Meissner is to be more than simply good; it is to be extraordinary. Extraordinary performance comes from extraordinary people.

Meissner as a group is passionate about helping our clients manufacture lifesaving and life enhancing drugs, therapies, and vaccines. We develop, manufacture, supply and service advanced microfiltration products and single-use systems worldwide.

We know that when you are passionate about what you do, it’s more than just a job.

Meissner is focused on the development of the whole individual, and we have programs and tools in place to help us stay at our best mentally and physically. In alignment with our commitment to support the growth and development of the whole individual, Meissner has inaugurated a Learning and Development department to solely focus on cultivating our team. When you grow, we grow.

Meissner is seeking a Graduate Design Engineer to join us at our Manufacturing facility in Castlebar, Co. Mayo. The candidate will undergo a period of training and development to gain the necessary competencies to fulfil the role, inclusive of spending time training at our HQ facility in Camarillo, California.

The Graduate Design Engineer will be responsible for developing, designing, documenting, and approving single-use systems for primarily but not limited to the biopharmaceutical industry, providing assistance and technical support to end-users necessary to ensure the successful implementation thereof.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

As part of the Applications Engineering team, you will develop, design, optimise and implement solutions for the industries we serve. Throughout this process you will interface with all facets of our organisation including Quality, Operations, Engineering, Production, Sales and Supply Chain to ensure that the solutions which are developed meet the needs of our customer base while at the same time being compatible with the regulatory environment our customers function in. While Meissner is recognised as a leading provider of innovative solutions to the life sciences field, we are also known as a world class manufacturing organisation. As a Design Engineer you will be tasked with training and development along with specific, project-based endeavours that may include the following:

Duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Develops single-use systems designs based on user and process requirements:
  • Creates detailed product specifications which meet user requirement specifications (URS) while allowing for lean production and cost-effective solutions.
  • Analyses product specifications and performance requirements to determine designs which can be produced via existing component portfolio (Meissner Design Space), processing facilities and techniques.
  • Prepares process flow diagrams (PFDs), specification prints featuring detailed Bills of Materials, comprehensive URS responses and other documents necessary for completion of projects.
  • Generates pricing based on value engineering principals in concert with Global Finance and Accounting.

• Manages library of single-use componentry for use in single-use assemblies:
  • Evaluates single-use components to ensure fitness for purpose, e.g. sensor functionality, engagement testing, etc.
  • Qualifies new components for use in production including generation of QC prints and performance testing.
  • Works with Quality, Planning, and Procurement to ensure consistent supply of single-use components.

• Supports single-use systems production:
  • Ensures designs are manufactured accurate to approved specifications.
  • Facilitates new bio container design implementation.
  • Promotes efficient and ergonomic manufacturing techniques.
  • Interfaces with and offers continuous improvement support for the MES/ERP systems.

• Provides pre and post-sale product support for single-use systems
  • Creates support documentation including process flow and recommended usage diagrams.
  • Confers with customers and sales staff to discuss project status, provide technical support, and otherwise facilitate implementation of product portfolios.

• Manages single-use systems projects to ensure that initiatives are met, timelines are adhered to, associated costs targets are achieved, etc.

Qualifications, Education and/or Experience

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Skills:

• An Honours Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Technology, Materials Engineering or equivalent technical discipline.
• Ability to utilise basic computer skills is essential including the use of word-processing, spreadsheets.
• Ability to manage multiple projects at once.
• Ability to apply mathematical operations to various tasks.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing, to internal parties as well as those external to the organisation.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical or a manufacturing industry.
• AutoCAD and 3D modelling software experience.
• Ability to apply mathematical operations to tasks such as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.

Physical Demands

Occasional work may be done in an ISO Class 7 cleanroom environment. Powder free gloves, face masks, hairnets, gowns, and shoe covers must be worn. Because smokers continue to shed thousands of smoke particles even hours after smoking a cigarette and these particles will damage our products, only non-smokers are permitted to enter or work in the cleanroom. As a result, the successful candidate must be a nonsmoker.

Meissner Filtration Products is Proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.