System Engineering Manager

Join us in pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

Our inspiring and caring environment forms a global community that celebrates diversity and individuality. We encourage you to step beyond your comfort zone, offering resources and flexibility to foster your professional and personal growth, all while valuing your unique contributions.

This is a role well suited to an ambitious professional, looking for the next step in their career. As a Sr. Manager, Project Engineering, you will be responsible for:

• Serving as a hands-on working manager with direct responsibility for leading, coaching, developing, and contributing alongside a highly skilled team of mechanical, electrical, chemical, and automation engineers and technicians to deliver the annual capital equipment plan.
• Providing hands-on technical leadership in mechanical and electrical process automation by establishing engineering principles and applying technology to design, develop, document, install, qualify, and optimize new and existing automated diagnostic consumable manufacturing equipment, batch processing systems, and semi-finished reagent formulation systems in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Providing indirect leadership across the broader Manufacturing Engineering and Facilities organization through project portfolio management, including prioritizing initiatives, aligning resources, strengthening governance, managing interdependencies, and driving execution of complex cross-functional projects and programs.
• Serving as a subject matter expert for applicable Quality System requirements, ensuring projects comply with user requirements, design controls, validation, risk management, documentation, and change management expectations while driving continuous improvement.
• Partnering with internal stakeholders and external equipment suppliers to define requirements, resolve technical challenges, and implement robust, compliant, and maintainable process equipment solutions.
• Collaborating with the Quality and Business Excellence organizations to establish and continuously improve standards and templates for equipment specifications, validation deliverables, change management documentation, and work instructions.
• Serving as the subject matter expert for capital procurement processes and partnering with Procurement, Finance, and Legal to guide sourcing strategy, supplier selection, commercial alignment, contracting, purchase execution, and process compliance.
• Representing the Project Engineering team in internal and external Quality audits, providing authoritative guidance, ensuring inspection readiness, and leading timely resolution of audit observations.
• Providing routine off-hour process support for mechanical equipment issues, typically one week every 10 to 12 weeks, or as required.
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This position may suit you best if you are familiar with what is below, and would like to do develop your career with Healthineers

• You have significant hands-on automation engineering experience with formulation, filling, packaging, and related manufacturing processes and equipment.
• You have demonstrated success as a working manager who provides direct leadership, coaching, and development to multidisciplinary teams of engineers and technicians while remaining actively engaged in technical and project execution.
• You have experience leading engineering project portfolios, including prioritizing initiatives, aligning resources, managing interdependencies, strengthening governance, and influencing cross-functional organizations without direct reporting authority.
• You have extensive experience applying Quality System requirements in a regulated manufacturing environment, including user requirements, design controls, validation, risk management, change management, technical documentation, and audit readiness.
• You have experience serving as a subject matter expert for capital procurement processes and partnering with Procurement, Finance, and Legal on sourcing strategy, supplier selection, commercial alignment, contracting, purchase execution, and process compliance.
• You have experience partnering with internal stakeholders and external equipment suppliers to define requirements, develop scope and budgets, resolve technical challenges, and deliver robust, compliant, and maintainable equipment solutions.
• You have strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships, influence decisions, and communicate effectively across technical teams, senior leadership, and external partners.
• You have working knowledge of industrial automation technologies and principles, including operational technology networking, SCADA, batch control, computerized maintenance management systems, and manufacturing execution systems.
  

Skills necessary to have for the success of this role 

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, or a related engineering discipline.
• 10 or more years of progressive experience delivering technical support and leading complex engineering projects within a cGMP-regulated manufacturing environment.
• Five or more years of demonstrated leadership experience, including direct team management and/or cross-functional influence.
• PMP or recognized Agile project management certification is preferred.
• Working knowledge of project portfolio management and data analytics platforms, including Microsoft Project and Power BI.
• Experience with Mechanical and Electrical design and documentation software.  Experience with NX,  Teamcenter PLM, SolidWorks, and/or AutoCAD preferred.
• Experience utilizing Lean methodologies such as TPM, 5S, Lean 3P Design, & OEE Monitoring
• Demonstrated ability to lead and collaborate with technical and operational teams to drive results.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% in support of business and project priorities.

Who we are: We are a team of more than 72,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work: When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

To find out more about Siemens Healthineers businesses, please visit our company page here.

The base pay range for this position is:

$152,090 - $209,121

Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

If this is a commission eligible position the commission eligibility will be in accordance with the terms of the Company's plan. Commissions are based on individual performance and/or company performance.

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan. life insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time.

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