Imagine how your ideas and expertise can change a patient’s life. Our Global Operations & Quality team plays a central part in ensuring our products are delivered to patients with cardiovascular disease. You’ll partner cross-functionally with manufacturing operations and sales teams, delivering thoughtful solutions to complex challenges all while developing your knowledge of the medical device industry. Whether your work includes strategic inventory planning, labeling, warehouse management, material handling, or any of our other supply chain opportunities, you will be making a meaningful contribution to our team and to patients all over the world. The Director Engineering will lead the Supplier Development Advanced Catheter category and provide strategic support to external manufacturing. How you will make an impact: Lead Supplier Development Engineering activities across new product development, commercialization, and lifecycle management, ensuring supplier readiness, technical capability, and long-term performance. Partner cross-functionally with R&D, NPD, Sourcing, Supplier Quality, Manufacturing, Quality, and Program Management to develop and commercialize innovative cardiovascular technologies. Provide engineering leadership throughout the product development lifecycle, including design development, design for manufacturability, verification, validation, qualification, and commercialization. Lead the development, qualification, and technical oversight of external suppliers and contract manufacturers, including complex interventional catheter systems, components, and delivery technologies. Drive lifecycle management and continuous improvement across commercial products, improving supplier capability, manufacturing processes, quality, reliability, and scalability. Serve as a hands-on technical and people leader, providing technical direction, coaching, and mentorship while fostering accountability, collaboration, and innovation. Build organizational capability through talent development, targeted assignments, training, and succession planning, aligning employee development with business needs. Establish clear objectives and manage team performance to ensure high-quality, on-time execution of engineering programs and deliverables. What you’ll need (Required): Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with experience in manufacturing, including managing external vendors and suppliers across sustaining engineering and new product development programs. Demonstrated success leading and developing high‑performing engineering teams within a regulated medical device environment. Travel up to 35% domestically and internationally to engage with suppliers and manufacturing partners. What else we look for (Preferred): MBA or Master’s in Engineering (Mechanical or Biomedical). Medical Device experience in new product development with successful design optimization from development to commercialization. Experience in more than one of the following areas: Interventional access devices, rapid product development and manufacturing of components and complex assembly design. Experience in catheter and related manufacturing (extrusions, braiding, molding, laser-cutting and bonding processes). Experience with rapid product development in cross-functional teams, creative design, prototyping, and test method development (in-vitro-testing). Proven ability to apply technical knowledge and judgment to complex engineering problems. Knowledge of DFM, GD&T and Six Sigma methodology. Displays broad perspective and effective judgment, demonstrates well-reasoned problem solving and decision-making. Ability to be bold and decisive to drive action. Builds a shared vision; inspires others to action; sets clear direction; establishes plans consistent with that direction. Aligning our overall business objectives with performance, we offer competitive salaries, performance-based incentives, and a wide variety of benefits programs to address the diverse individual needs of our employees and their families. For California (CA), the base pay range for this position is $159,000 to $226,000 (highly experienced). The pay for the successful candidate will depend on various factors (e.g., qualifications, education, prior experience). Applications will be accepted while this position is posted on our Careers website. Edwards is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer including protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities. Edwards Lifesciences is the leading global structural heart innovation company, driven by a passion to improve patient lives. Through breakthrough technologies, world-class evidence and partnerships with clinicians and healthcare stakeholders, our employees are inspired by our patient-focused culture to deliver life-changing innovations to those who need them most.

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