Senior Materials Engineer

Cook Group

Materials Engineer at Cook Medical improving materials and biocompatibility for medical devices. Leading projects to ensure compliance with standards in a collaborative environment.

Posted 4/22/2026contractEight Mile Plains • 🇦🇺 AustraliaSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Identify and solve device related material and biocompatibility problems/issues
Lead and/or assist in material related projects/activities including: Restricted Substances / REACH Evaluation of material related supplier changes
Material related Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs)
Product design changes (material and manufacturing processes)
Biocompatibility
Contribute technical/scientific expertise in the areas of material design, biocompatibility assessment, failure mode analysis and root cause analysis.
Responsible for developing, reviewing, understanding, and summarizing material testing and biocompatibility results.
Ensure personal compliance with Cook values, quality system procedures, policies and relevant medical device standards and regulations.
Participate in reviews of engineering team outputs (design control and design change deliverables, design reviews and risk evaluation reviews) and contribute to a high quality of output.
Conduct education/training events and activities for the Engineering team.
Lead and/or assist in material and biocompatibility related QMS updates.
Collaborate with Global and Local Functional departments to determine work objective, priorities, deliverables and timelines.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum of Bachelor level qualifications in Material Science, Polymer Science, Material Engineering, Physics, biomedical engineering or science, or equivalent is essential
Experience and knowledge of practical and theoretical materials engineering challenges is essential
Knowledge of polymers, metals, ceramics and composites used in medical devices is desirable
Knowledge of Biocompatibility testing and evaluation, toxicological risk assessment, chemical characterization
Experience in risk management standard application to biocompatibility and material risks
Advanced experience in biocompatibility or materials engineering- preferably in the medical device industry
Experience with material related failure analysis techniques desirable
Demonstrated project management skills desirable
Intermediate statistical data analysis skills and experience desirable
Exercises effective influencing skills when seeking and building consensus
Allocates time and resources effectively and efficiently to achieve outcomes

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fixed term contract – 12-months
Work from home 3 days per week
Attractive Base Salary / Quarterly Bonus / Laptop provided

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Hard Skills & Tools

material sciencepolymer sciencematerials engineeringbiocompatibilityfailure mode analysisroot cause analysisbiocompatibility testingtoxicological risk assessmentchemical characterizationstatistical data analysis

Soft Skills

project managementinfluencing skillstime managementresource allocationcollaborationcommunicationtrainingproblem-solvingleadershipquality assurance