**Job Description Summary**
Sustaining Engineering R&D Associate Staff Engineer

**Job Description**

General Function

+ Mentor and coach the BD-TCI team in technical aspects of projects in support of VAD. Projects include, but are not limited to, supporting Advanced Access Devices product lines, supply chain, and operations.
+ Identify the best tools and approaches to effectively solve engineering problems to develop/optimize designs by leveraging appropriate mix of first principles / analytical, computational and experimental methods.
+ Lead and ensure implementation and rigor of design control best practices with compliance to BD quality policies and procedures through appropriate communication, training, and education of sound quality assurance principals.
+ Ensure compliance with all local, state, federal, and BD safety regulations, policies, and procedures.

**Organizational Leadership**

+ Quality systems processes: Drive bes...