Lead Product Development Engineer (Freelance)

As a Lead Product Development Engineer of the MRI R&D Hardware group Patient Centric Subsystems, you are designing and developing hardware of MR products for hospitals. Together with a HW Architect and the Systems Engineering department, you will take products from concept through design into production using DfX (FMEA,DFMA etc) approaches to meet the needs of our customers and their demanding environment.

Your daily work.

In this role as Lead Product Development Engineer you are responsible for the design, realization (schematics, drawings and documents), integration and test of sub-systems, components or modules on the basis of design specifications in accordance with the functional specifications. As we do not want to harm people with our MR systems, which can be very dangerous when malfunctioning, so predictability, reliability and traceability of our design is essential. Thus, documentation and the documentation process play an important role in our development.

Your skills.

It is about your attitude and behavior. The right mindset, planning and communication skills and behavior will get you the results we ask and will ensure your own growth you want within Philips MR. You have a Masters (WO) Degree or equivalent through experience in mechanical engineering. You have lead engineer skills and experience in the process to release components for production in a medical or other highly regulated environment

Some keywords: background in mechanical and product design. Able to guide and work with multiple projects at once, keeping up planning of multiple projects, step in if necessary on documentation, release-process steps. Helping engineers with their blocking items and negotiate with project and program leaders. Working with Statements of Work experience is a big plus, as well as experience in co-development with suppliers. Leadership, planning for commitments, open communication with leadership and other department leaders, process-creativity, negotiation skills, get-things-done mentality are necessary to get your project or projects done efficient and faster than the original timeline.

Our offer.

Challenging tasks on technical interesting products. The opportunity to grow beyond initially assigned tasks/responsibilities for those with the right drive and skills. A pleasant working environment with flexible working hours.

Your team.

You will be part of the Business Unit, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) within Philips Healthcare. The Business Unit MRI is responsible for marketing, product development and lifecycle management of 1.5T and 3T High end and Mid-range performance. In the MR Development group you will be part of the Hardware Research & Development group Patient Centric Subsystems. This group consists of roughly 20 academic mechanical/electrical engineers; you will work together with several other groups in-house, and even abroad. As you will experience, Philips is a large and international organization.

Our offer

Challenging tasks on technical interesting products. The opportunity to grow beyond initially assigned tasks/responsibilities for those with the right drive and skills. A pleasant working environment with flexible working hours.

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It's a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on improving 3 billion lives a year by 2025 delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum. Our people experience a variety of unexpected moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways.