Associate Manager, Materials Technology

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ResMed is a global leader in connected devices and digital health. We help millions of people sleep, breathe and live better lives. Are you ready to help fuel our growth? As ResMed continues to evolve with the future of healthcare, our customer-centric organization focuses on cloud-connected devices and digital health technologies that are designed to help treat and manage sleep apnea, COPD, and other chronic respiratory diseases that, together, affect over one billion people worldwide.
- Lets talk about the team:

- The Materials Engineering Group is responsible for the materials strategy and development with ResMed’s product development groups globally. We pride ourselves on constantly adapting, and relentlessly improving in order to maximize the value that we add to the broader organization.

Lets talk about the role:

- We are currently looking for a 6-8 month maternity replacement to join our industrious team. As the Associate Manager of the Materials Technology & Compliance team within the broader Materials Engineering Group, you will be working alongside your direct teammates as well as those from ResMed design, systems, manufacturing and supply teams. You will use your superior people and technical skills to robustly and creatively influence solutions for material related issues across the whole lifecycle of all ResMed products; finding resourceful solutions all the way from research through to development, and on into a high volume manufacturing environment. Your team will also support Materials compliance activities, working alongside our compliance experts.

This is a role for someone who comes up to speed quickly and thrives in working at pace with their team to solve real-time problems, able to excel at the very hands-on individual work of materials testing and data gathering as well as build trust and collaborate closely with others. We look to you and your team to turn this quality data into actionable insight through robust and insightful data analysis. You will influence critical materials decisions by being able to target your communication of findings to all levels of the company - from rigorous, detailed technical reports, to higher level multidisciplinary technical meetings and senior stakeholder presentations.
- Lets talk about responsibilities:

- People leadership- You are realistic, optimistic, enthusiastic and solution-focused-
- You will be a champion for the growth of the department culture. Create safety and trust within the team, learn from failures and celebrate diversity of thought.-
- You will not only be a supportive and inspirational leader for the in your team, developing mentoring, coaching and collaboration skill sets, and be committed to a continuous learning journey for you and your team members, but you will be a hands-on individual contributor in solving Materials issues-
- You are able to work to tight deadlines in a sometimes ambiguous, always innovative, environment.-
- You are market-savvy, combining technical input, business insight, commercial acumen and a knack for negotiating competing priorities to make sound, informed decisions.-
- You will use your understanding of people to create an environment of excitement and volunteerism about the work, taking any hurdles as challenges, not obstacles, and ensuring the team understand more and improve from any mistakes - together with the team, you will create a learning institution around Material Science within ResMed.-
- You will coordinate work across the team according to company priorities, supporting your team to expertly manage their stakeholders and communicate timeline and technical risks.-
- You have a strong analytical proficiency and will use your ability to digest and summarise complex or diverse information to drive Materials Technology & Compliance strategy towards ResMed’s future.-
- You will bring a passion for understanding the constraints imposed on medical device materials intended for high volume manufacture and you will work to align, and influence the choice and validation of materials, processes and approach across ResMed.Your team will support- Materials Characterization, Identification and selection: You will expertly select and use some or all of the following instrumentation FTIR, DSC, TGA, SEM/EDS, XRD, XRF, HPLC, Mass Spectrometry (LC/GC/ICP)) to gather data to inform actionable insights for the business. You will be required to travel (within work hours) to various facilities across Sydney to utilise analytical equipment that is not located on the ResMed campus.-
- Participate in Root Cause and Failure Analysis: You’ll use known tools such as Kepner Tregoe, etc, to bring your rigorous critical thought process and wide and insightful materials knowledge to the table as the Materials Engineering Subject Matter expert.-
- Materials Compliance Supported by leaders you will ensure ResMed maintains compliance to all required globa