Dentist/ CAD Surgical Guide Designer

3Sixty

Key Responsibilities

• Design & Development: Design patient-specific 3D dental surgical guides, including tooth-supported, mucosa-supported, bone-supported, and complex stackable guides.
• Model Preparation: Prepare, refine, and optimize 3D models ensuring smooth, watertight surfaces and making necessary offset adjustments for manufacturability.
• File Generation: Generate high-quality, print-ready STL files suitable for fabrication, ensuring the final output meets all clinical and technical specifications.
• Remote 3D Printer Management: Oversee and manage the production of surgical guides on our 3D printers, including build tray setup, nesting, supporting, and job scheduling.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure all fabricated guides adhere to our stringent quality and production standards, performing checks for accuracy and fit.
• Workflow Management: Maintain up-to-date case statuses within our digital workflow system and prepare production reports as required.
• Collaboration: Work closely and effectively with clinical teams, lab technicians, and other departments to ensure seamless case progression and successful patient outcomes.

Required Technical Qualifications

• Proven Experience: Demonstrated experience in the end-to-end digital design of patient-specific surgical guides, from design to final production.
• CAD Software Proficiency: Advanced proficiency in at least one major dental CAD software (e.g. Atomica, 3Shape, Codiagnostix, RealGuide .etc.).
• Mesh Editing Skills: Familiarity with advanced 3D mesh editors for model repair and refinement. (e.g.Materialise 3-matic, Blender, or Meshmixer .etc.)
• Data Manipulation Expertise: Strong ability to manipulate and refine 3D models to produce clinically accurate, watertight STL files.
• Additive Manufacturing Knowledge: Practical, hands-on experience with the 3D printing workflow, including slicing software, build platform preparation (nesting & supporting), and print optimization.