Sustaining Product Engineer

Orascoptic, headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, is a leading provider of premium dental and medical loupes and headlights. As part of Envista Holdings Corporation, a global family of dental brands, Orascoptic combines innovative optical technology, clinician-focused design, and personalized service to help healthcare professionals perform at their best. This position is based in Madison, Wisconsin, where our teams drive the innovation, development, and commercialization of products used by clinicians around the world.

Innovation and product development are central to Orascoptic's growth, and we're seeking a technically strong engineer to lead electromechanical product development programs from concept through implementation. As both a technical and project leader, you will partner with cross-functional teams, suppliers, and development partners to bring innovative products to market. This role is ideal for an engineer who wants to stay hands-on technically while expanding their leadership influence and ownership of new product development.

Position Summary:

The Sustaining Product Engineer is responsible for the design, development, and continuous improvement of best-in-class electromechanical and optical products that provide superior visualization to healthcare professionals worldwide. This Product Engineer will drive sustaining work on our current product portfolio and add value by running new development projects that help drive cost savings. This role would require someone on site 4 days per week.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Works independently with minimal guidance when applying engineering principles in the following areas of requirements: specifications; design and drafting; risk analysis; design reviews; prototyping; and design verification/validation.

• Manages sustaining engineering projects of moderate complexity to improve product safety/quality, reduce cost, address component obsolescence, or meet changing regulatory standards.

• Owns VAVE (Value Analysis/Value Engineering) metric by forecasting, executing, measuring, and reporting on VAVE projects to drive organizational cost savings.

• Designs and assembles prototypes to support product feasibility, voice-of-customer (VOC), and design verification activities.

• Manages bills of materials and drives engineering change orders.

• Collaborates with external design resources to ensure quality and performance.

• Creates test plan verifications and develops and executes test methods.

• Proactively anticipates, identifies, and mitigates product risks.

• Maintains regular communication with project teams, design partners, and management.

• Acts as a resource to junior engineers to support the team’s development.

• Provides resource estimates and commitments for engineering tasks as requested.

• Assures compliance with FDA Quality System Regulations (QSR), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and ISO 13485 regulatory requirements.

• Maintains in-depth knowledge of product lines and recommends improvements and/or best practices.

• Travels up to 5% domestically.

Incidental Duties: The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed in this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, and indeed additional responsibilities may be assigned, as required, by management.