Graduate Manufacturing Engineer Taunton 2025

At Corza Medical, our mission is to champion surgical providers with remarkable service and exceptional products that save time, money, and effort. We are a passionate team guided by our core belief that you should never have to choose between performance, value, and a quality customer experience. We are here to support you every step of the way.

Pearsalls Ltd is part of Corza Medical, a leading provider of surgical medical devices. With a heritage spanning more than 200 years, the Pearsalls name is synonymous with quality, performance, reliability and innovation in sutures. Pearsalls Ltd has been manufacturing materials for use in the medical device market since the 1950’s. Over the years our reputation has continued to grow — expanding beyond our core braiding and high-strength suture expertise to more advanced sutures, with custom processing for a broad range of clinical specialties.

Our brand promise

We deliver a collaborative experience by working directly with the surgical community to ensure you get the exact surgical tools you need at the right time and the right price.

• Remarkable service: A seamless, personal process designed around you and your needs.
• Trusted performance: Our product family is the result of years of experience championing surgeons and listening to their expertise.
• Outstanding value: No matter the surgical specialty, we deliver quality products for all markets.

Our people promise

Excellence is our Specialty and what makes us successful is our people. We are committed to fostering a positive, empowering and growth-oriented environment where all team members are encouraged to share their opinions and ideas. That means you will work alongside an accomplished and highly collaborative team that inspires commitment to our goal in attaining excellence in everything they do.

Job purpose summary

As our Graduate Mechanical Engineer, it is your role to take responsibility for activities concerned with the design, construction and modification of products, equipment and machinery. Furthermore you will be responsible for the Validation and Process of activities in accordance with regulatory requirements and company policy.

What you will do

Process

• Evaluate chemical equipment and processes to identify ways to optimize performance or to ensure compliance with customer requirements, safety and environmental regulations.
• Conduct research to develop new and improved manufacturing processes.
• Design and plan layout of equipment and operations.
• Develop safety procedures to be employed by workers operating equipment or working in close proximity to on-going hazardous environments.
• Assess Chemical hazard posed by production materials for impact to final product.
• Perform laboratory studies of steps in manufacture of new product and test proposed process in small scale operation such as a pilot plant.
• Design measurement and control systems for chemical plants based on data collected in laboratory experiments and in pilot plant operations.
• Risk manage and evaluate existing manufacturing processes and workflows to identify areas that could benefit from changes and improvements. Troubleshoot and refine manufacturing process and equipment where identified making suggestions for continuous improvement.
• Prepare estimate of project/production costs and progress reports, documenting work via reports, technology notebooks and design file entries for management.
• Perform tests and monitor performance of processes throughout stages of production to determine degree of control over variables.
• Assist in the validation of Operations, equipment and instrumentation in accordance with ISO 14385 requirements.
• Put Customer Complaints into a product/production capability context to establish a feasible direction to take matters of Product Quality.
• Present changes to operations or materials to customers to satisfy regulation/Quality/Sales considerations and to manage the projects in a manner that will align with customer orders/stock management.
• To investigate non-conformances from a technical standpoint.
• Work to the Health and Safety guidelines, good practice and Company procedures at all times.

Validation

• Design and implement a site validation strategy and system to ensure the appropriate validation policies, design control and procedures are in place within the Quality Management system to ISO13485 and/or 21CFR820 standards.
• Take responsibility for ensuring the equipment, manufacturing and testing facilities and utilities serving the facilities are validated and any revalidation studies are performed.
• Provide technical support and expertise of product validation processes, in order to demonstrate that new products are safe and fit for purpose.
• Undertake improvement projects and participate in team projects as requested.
• Provide technical support on analyzing failures and providing estimates of life expectancy and reliability.
• Conduct DQ, IQ, OQ and PQ on all machinery and processes.
• Produce validation plans and protocol documentation for existing products and processes.
• Coordinate the validation process across all relevant functions throughout the business.
• Work with other engineers to ensure all product and system requirements are taken into account from the initial product conception to the finished result.
• Undertake any other task that is reasonably expected within the post holder’s ability.

What you will need

• Engineering degree or equivalent
• Ability to read and interpret complex work instructions, documents such as operating, maintenance instructions, procedures, manuals and safety rules.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence to regulatory requirements.
• Excellent communication both written (documentation) and oral (presentation) skills
• Skilled in managing complex engineering projects
• Ability to ensure that projects are brought to successful completion on time and within budget.
• Ability to research and analyse information of considerable difficulty and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to evaluate and implement new methods and techniques for operational improvement
• Skilled in following safety practices and recognizing hazards
• Ability to prioritise workload
• Strong accuracy and attention to detail
• Works effectively in team situations as well as independently, with minimal supervision

In return we offer

• Flexi-time
• Starting salary dependent on experience
• 33 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
• Pension - Company contributing 7%
• Discretionary yearly bonus
• Healthcare cash plan
• Company sick pay
• Group Life Assurance
• Group Income Protection
• Training and development opportunities

What we value

• Customer First - We deliver extraordinary experiences.
• Accountability - We do what we say.
• Integrity - We do what is right.
• Inspired - We love what we do.
• One Global Team -We before me, always.

Corza Medical is an equal opportunity employer. Corza Medical evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, marital status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran status or other protected characteristics.