Engineering Careers

Cook has engineers all over the world, with our European teams based primarily in Limerick, Ireland, and Bjaeverskov, Denmark. These exciting roles in medical device engineering have a direct impact on our mission and our customers and their patients.

Across the global function, we have three engineering departments—Research and Development, Post-Market Engineering, and Manufacturing Engineering. Engineers at Cook are responsible for the design and development of our products as well as ensuring that they can be manufactured and delivered correctly and efficiently. They are involved throughout the full lifecycle of a product, from conception to commercialisation.

Our engineers collaborate with clinicians around the world to design, maintain, and improve Cook’s medical products, to achieve better treatment outcomes for patients.

Through the use of our state-of-the-art facilities and our Innovation Centre located in Limerick, Ireland, we create prototypes and test concepts and equipment. Furthermore, our engineering teams have opportunities to be recognised for their designs and the potential to be awarded patents.

Collaboration with multiple departments, such as Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance, Operations, and Marketing, is also part of our engineers’ everyday work to bring products, ranging from Class I to Class III medical devices, to market.

We make more than 1.5 million products every year, which we provide to 135 countries around the world.

Research & Development (R&D)

Our R&D engineers are responsible for the design and development of medical devices across our two clinical divisions, Vascular and MedSurg, and assisting in getting them into market.

Their main activities include:

• Bringing an idea or concept to realisation through research and feasibility.
• Developing component specifications, inspection methods, bills of materials, and manufacturing processes.
• Designing for manufacture techniques that allow efficient product assembly.
• Designing and developing test methods to ensure prototypes and products can withstand surgical procedures; verification and validation (V&V) testing.
• Bringing products to market by aiding in Regulatory submissions.

Post-Market Engineering

Our post-market engineers are responsible for supporting the design and manufacturing process of devices post release to market, for the purpose of maintaining device quality, compliance, and securing regulatory approval, as well as reducing costs and introducing new technologies.

Their main activities include:

• Extending product lines, such as the development of new stent sizes and delivery systems.
• Redesigning existing products due to compliance and/or cost reduction needs.
• Assisting with clinical assessment of our existing products to ensure safety and effectiveness.
• Testing method design and validations.
• Developing and integrating engineering systems.
• Supporting Regulatory Affairs in re-submissions around the globe.

Manufacturing Engineering

Our manufacturing engineers are responsible for providing technical support to all Manufacturing Engineering activities, the introduction of new products from R&D, and the introduction of process improvement to increase yields.

Their main activities include:

• Transferring and introducing new products and process from R&D.
• Developing new processes to introduce efficiencies and enable continuous flow of product.
• Designing and introducing new machine technologies.
• Identifying opportunities for the reduction of cost, yield, or quality improvement with existing or new vendors, via process improvement.
• Supporting day-to-day manufacturing, ensuring all equipment is calibrated and maintained and investigating any non-conformance and compliance issues using problem-solving tools.

The Engineering opportunities available in Cook Medical range from entry level to global leadership. Training is provided and team development and progression are encouraged and fostered.

View our current Engineering roles and send in your CV today if you feel you would be a good fit with our teams.