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Dentsply Sirona is the world’s largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, with a 130-year history of innovation and service to the dental industry and patients worldwide. Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive solutions offering including dental and oral health products as well as other consumable medical devices under a strong portfolio of world class brands. Dentsply Sirona’s products provide innovative, high-quality and effective solutions to advance patient care and deliver better and safer dentistry. Dentsply Sirona’s global headquarters is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The company’s shares are listed in the United States on NASDAQ under the symbol XRAY.
Bringing out the best in people
As advanced as dentistry is today, we are dedicated to making it even better. Our people have a passion for innovation and are committed to applying it to improve dental care. We live and breathe high performance, working as one global team, bringing out the best in each other for the benefit of dental patients, and the professionals who serve them. If you want to grow and develop as a part of a team that is shaping an industry, then we’re looking for the best to join us.
Working at Dentsply Sirona you are able to:
Develop faster - with our commitment to the best professional development.
Perform better - as part of a high-performance, empowering culture.
Shape an industry - with a market leader that continues to drive innovation.
Make a difference -by helping improve oral health worldwide.
The Senior R&D Engineer collaborates closely with the Project Managers and multidisciplinary teams by supporting with technical knowledge and competencies.
The position has a strong bias towards laboratory testing, comprising the adaptation of test methods and equipment to a given project scope, testing of prototypes concurrently with product design iterations, execution of formal design verification campaigns and participating in design and planning meetings frequently involving other Dentsply Sirona R&D sites in the US and Germany.
Senior R&D Engineer – Ballaigues, Switzerland
Key Responsibilities:
- Participates in R&D Projects for New Product Development, Core Business Engineering and MDD / MDR remediation projects for the Endodontics Solutions BU in collaboration with key project stakeholders.
- Responsible for the development of new medical devices in conformance with applicable international standards as well as with the Dentsply Sirona new product development procedure.
- Provides scientific and technical expertise related to material science, polymer engineering or chemistry for development projects in a cross functional setting.
- Propose and implement design solutions and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
- Defines and executes prototype and pre-production testing from protocol to test reports.
- Supports laboratory team by providing chemical and/or material science expertise for testing methods and equipment.
- Submits new and revised controlled Technical Documents into the company wide Electronic Document Management system.
- Contributes to Design FMEAs, identification and implementation of risk mitigation measures.
- Adheres to a multitude of operating procedures and work instructions typical for the highly regulated medical device industry.
Requirements and Qualification:
You hold at least a Master’s Degree in Material Science or Chemistry and you have 5 years of experience in an engineering environment for medical device. You have a proven track record of New Product Development and Innovation. You have a sound understanding of medical device design control and international standards and you are hands-on in a lab environment in compliance with local Environment, Health and Safety standards.
You continuously collaborate with project managers, laboratory personnel and other stakeholders in a friendly working environment.
You are native in English (or at least C1 level verbal and written) and your French level is at least B2.
At Dentsply Sirona we offer a market conform salary, very attractive benefits and an informal working environment. We are a diverse workforce and are passionate about the work we do!