We’re looking for an experienced medical device product development engineer with exceptional project leadership, client management, and team coordination skills to join our talented team. In this role, you’ll act as the primary point of contact for the client—responsible for nurturing the client relationship, managing the project, leading the multidisciplinary development team, and ensuring the technical success of every deliverable. You’ll thrive in a collaborative workplace where complex medical, life science, and diagnostic products are designed, engineered, and transferred into production with quality, compliance, and customer satisfaction always top of mind. Inertia is a Toronto-based product innovation and manufacturing partner accelerating the development of next‑generation medical and diagnostic devices. We work with ambitious startups and scaleups to turn bold ideas into market‑ready products—guiding them from concept and prototype through regulatory approval, manufacturing launch, and production scale. Our fully integrated model unites strategy, engineering, and manufacturing under one roof—eliminating silo and helping clients move faster and smarter. With deep expertise in regulatory strategy, human factors, engineering design, design for manufacturing (DFM), and production, we make the complex simple, enabling innovators to bring life‑changing technologies to market with speed and confidence. Lean, High‑Performance Teams: We eliminate unnecessary layers of management bloat and empower our project leads to make decisions, move fast, and own outcomes. For more information on Inertia please visit our soon‑to‑be updated website here: As a Product Development Team Lead reporting to the VP Product Development, you will:



Profitably lead multiple simultaneous projects and/or large complex multi‑disciplinary projects with the equivalent of Lead the creation, planning, and reporting of project scope, timelines, financial management, and performance. Lead client meetings and all client communications including non‑technical aspects such as billing, expenses, etc. Lead projects through at least 2 of 3 Product Strategy, Product Development, and Product Manufacturing domains. Actively plan & consider how their project resourcing needs impact Inertia & the Inertia team, by seeking out additional (internal or external) resources when required and/or communicating when resources need to redeploy to other projects. Work closely with the Managers, Directors, or VPs in the creation of new project work orders, resources plans, pricing, and presentation to client. Manage the trade‑offs and relationships between technical, project, and human aspects of projects. Lead and manage your primary engineering discipline, with some ability in others. Have and deploy a broad spectrum of knowledge to leverage many different types of resources, understand the dependencies/interactions between the mand and know when to ask for help. Manage direct report performance and coach team members to help achieve Inertia’s and their own goals. Use and promote Inertia’s Quality Management System to guide daily work. Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities. Biomedical/Mechanical,



Electrical, Mechatronics) or equivalent combination of advanced education and experience. 6+ years’ progressive experience designing and engineering complex physical products—medical device development is an asset. Experience in medical, life science, and diagnostic devices. Experience in working with an ISO09001 or ISO13485 quality management environment. Experience with the methods and documentation practices required by the FDA and other regulatory agencies for the development of medical devices. Success managing multi‑disciplinary engineering teams and projects, ideally new product development projects, from initial concept all the way to product manufacture and customer delivery. Ability to successfully apply understanding of mechanical and/or electrical engineering fundamentals to the realities of new product development. The mindset and methods to ensure an end‑user/stakeholder centric perspective in your product development. Competence planning and managing work in an agile project management environment using project management tools like JIRA. Highly competent with computer‑aided mechanical and/or electronic design and engineering tools (e.g., SolidWorks/Onshape, Altium, etc.). Skilled at executing and/or directing complex engineering calculations, modeling and simulation methods and software. Proven ability to work directly and successfully with external customers and suppliers. Exceptional written, visual, and verbal communication and facilitation skills that have helped you effectively engage, collaborate with, and educate stakeholders at various levels. Work that garners praise from peers and customers and the tangible results to prove it. Is as comfortable in a cu

📌 Lead, Project Management (Canada)
🏢 Inertia
📍 Canada