- Location: Illinois, United States
- Type: Direct Hire
- Job ID: 10667
- Work Setting: On-Site
- Posted: October 8, 2026
- Tax Status: W2
Permanent, Director of Engineering, Combination Products
Summary
Our client, a small, growing medical device organization, has engaged GForce Life Sciences to provide a Director of Engineering. This role combines people leadership, technical authority, client engagement, and operational ownership. The ideal candidate has deep experience developing drug-device combination products and can lead teams working across autoinjectors, pen injectors, prefilled syringes, on-body/wearable injectors, infusion systems, and related delivery platforms.
This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can set technical direction, develop engineers, strengthen laboratory execution, and serve as a credible technical partner to clients from early development through verification, validation, investigation, and design-history-file execution.
Job Duties
Requirements
Terms & Start
Summary
Our client, a small, growing medical device organization, has engaged GForce Life Sciences to provide a Director of Engineering. This role combines people leadership, technical authority, client engagement, and operational ownership. The ideal candidate has deep experience developing drug-device combination products and can lead teams working across autoinjectors, pen injectors, prefilled syringes, on-body/wearable injectors, infusion systems, and related delivery platforms.
This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can set technical direction, develop engineers, strengthen laboratory execution, and serve as a credible technical partner to clients from early development through verification, validation, investigation, and design-history-file execution.
Job Duties
- Lead, develop, and hold accountable a team of approximately 12–15 engineers; build technical depth through coaching, feedback, mentoring, and clear performance expectations.
- Provide technical leadership and final engineering review for protocols, reports, investigations, deviations, test methods, design inputs, risk documentation, and other critical technical deliverables.
- Lead complex medical-device and combination-product programs, including test-method development and validation, design-input refinement, design verification and validation, failure investigation, and design-history-file support.
- Drive engineering excellence across the laboratory by improving technical capability, equipment readiness, documentation quality, throughput, right-first-time execution, and use of sound engineering and statistical methods.
- Partner with Quality and Operations to ensure equipment qualification, calibration, maintenance, laboratory readiness, and compliant execution are effectively planned and sustained.
- Serve as a senior technical interface with clients: translate ambiguous technical problems into practical development strategies, communicate risk and recommendations clearly, and guide teams toward sound technical decisions.
- Support growth of companies services by contributing to proposals, technical scoping, new-service development, client relationships, and thought leadership.
- Apply critical thinking, risk-based decision making, root-cause analysis, and data-driven problem solving to resolve technical issues and continuously improve engineering processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a closely related technical discipline; advanced degree is a plus.
- Approximately 15+ years of progressive medical-device / product-development experience, with substantial experience in drug-device combination products and injection systems.
- Proven leadership of engineering teams, including direct people management, technical coaching, resource prioritization, and performance accountability.
- Demonstrated success leading complex development, testing, verification/validation, or investigation programs in regulated environments.
- Strong working knowledge of design controls, DHF expectations, risk management, statistics, root-cause analysis, and applicable device / combination-product standards.
- Broad technical understanding of device design, materials, manufacturing processes, test equipment, laboratory methods, and failure mechanisms.
- Ability to communicate effectively with engineers, executives, Quality, Commercial teams, external partners, and clients.
- Recognized technical depth in one or more relevant areas and the judgment to challenge assumptions and guide sound engineering decisions.
Terms & Start
- Permanent Role
- Start ASAP
- 175-200k with bonus
- Onsite 4 days a week in Northbrook, IL
- Benefits included: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k