Job Title: Catheter Manufacturing Expert (a.k.a. Jedi of Reflow, Braiding Whisperer, Holder of the Sacred Mandrel) or even Principal Catheter Engineer!
Reporting to: VP of Operations
Location: Wherever troubleshooting is needed—office, production line, or wherever something smells like overheated Pebax. (Salt Lake City, UT)
About the Role:
We’re looking for a manufacturing engineer who has spent a lot of time in the catheter trenches. If you know what it feels like to troubleshoot a reflow profile at 4:45 PM on a Friday while coaching a junior tech through their first braid winding setup—this might be for you.
You should be fluent in Pebax, PEEK, durometers, and French sizes. If you dream in cross-sections and curse at bubbling jackets in your sleep, welcome home. You’ll serve as both first responder and mentor—solving immediate chaos, and teaching others how to avoid it next time.
Your Toolbox Should Include:
- Deep expertise in:
- Thermal and laser tipping
- Reflow, lamination, and shrink tube techniques
- Braid and coil winding (multi-lumen preferred)
- Tooling development for low-volume and scale-up
- Multi-material bonding and extrusion assembly
- The ability to explain reflow dwell times to an executive and a new process tech
- A history of rescuing failing prototypes and calming down agitated engineers
- Some visible scars from previous catheter wars (figurative or literal)
- A dark sense of humor (mandatory)
What You’ll Do:
- Drop into live production issues like a paramedic with a heat gun
- Design and improve catheter shaft processes from sketch to scale
- Build tools that work without prayers or duct tape
- Keep things running when everyone else is losing their minds over tensile tests
- Train and mentor the next generation of catheter engineers
- Translate R&D wizardry into processes that don’t explode
How You Know You’re Succeeding:
- People stop calling you by your name and start calling you “The Fixer”
- Your cross-section sketches become office lore
- The rework bin starts to feel lonely
- Production runs quietly, and mysteriously, without fire drills