Medical Engineering Placement

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Duration: 12 months

Location: Leeds Yorkshire

Sector: Medical Devices

Department: Quality/ Sterility Assurance

Position summary:

DePuy Synthes create products that reconstruct diseased or damaged joints repair skeletal injuries correct spinal injuries or deformities and provide surgical treatments for neurological disorders. These products change the lives of our patients and present unique and rewarding challenges for our engineering teams. This purpose of this role is to support the Sterility Assurance Department in the application and practice of microbial assurance as applied to the design manufacture and sterilisation of implants and instruments. You will join a team of engineers and will be involved with the designers manufactures and external vendors. This means you will get to see a process from start to finish. During your placement you will be exposed to a wide range of cases. Throughout the year you will receive support and training as well as the opportunity to travel to our Blackpool and Cork facilities.

Main duties & responsibilities

Supporting design engineers to develop instrumentation that meets cleaning and sterilization requirements

Support Sterility Assurance Sterilization/Contamination Control Programme

Performing tests to ensure product manufactured on site is clean and sterile (this includes water testing and environmental monitoring of the ISO Class 8 cleanrooms)

Working with vendors and external laboratories Working with a global team (mainly USA and Ireland) to implement new ideas protocols and procedures

Requirements of the role

Studying a degree grade 2:1 or higher in one of the following areas:

Medical Engineering

Biomedical Sciences

Microbiology

BioEngineering

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