Engineering Placement Student

Engineering Student Industrial Placement Duration: 12 months

Location: Leeds, Yorkshire

Sector: Medical Devices

At Johnson & Johnson,we believe health is everything.

Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured,where treatments are smarter and less invasive, andsolutions are personal.

Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/.

Position summary:

There are opportunities across a number of internal development teams, including:

Hip New Product Development

Knees New Product Development

Design Quality

You will have the opportunity to gain exposure to designing medical implants and surgical instruments, generating design concepts, defining product specifications, identifying suitable materials, developing robust in vitro test methodologies and analyzing retrieved products depending on the team you join.

As well as a lot of technical opportunities we look to our employees to drive and develop our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that focus on areas such as Women in Leadership, STEM outreach and Open&Out.

You will also benefit from being mentored by a permanent staff member as well as day to day advice and guidance from your team.

Johnson & Johnson MedTech create products that reconstruct diseased or damaged joints, repair skeletal injuries, correct spinal injuries or deformities and also provide surgical treatments for neurological disorders.

As the world of healthcare becomes more technologically advanced, we too are exploring new routes including robotics, additive manufacturing and digital healthcare solutions.

These products change the lives of our patients and present unique and rewarding challenges for our engineering teams.

Our designers collaborate and partner across all phases of the design journey from needs definition to ensuring design intent is maintained through launch.

Our team environment is collaborative, diverse, supporting and committed to harnessing the power of design embedded with superb usability to improve the quality of people's lives while changing the trajectory of healthcare.

Depending on your team allocation development opportunities; specialist training and responsibilities may include the following:

Manage work plans for own responsibilities and contribute to the planning and digital strategy.

Utilize a range of complex test equipment including servo-hydraulic test machines, precision metrology equipment and wear testing machines to test product.

Contribute to product validations and requirement plans.

Develop an understanding of materials used in orthopedics.

Work with other Business functions including Design, Bioengineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Testing and Research locally and across the J&J netw...