Manager, Systems Design Engineering

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

Do you have a passion for innovative ideas and groundbreaking discoveries? With over $1 billion invested annually in R&D, at Thermo Fisher Scientific you’ll help to solve some of the world’s toughest challenges, from giving cancer patients hope, ensuring safe drinking water and helping law enforcement address cases through forensics. We empower our teams to put science into meaningful action and give our R&D colleagues the autonomy, resources and tools they need to take science a step beyond.

OUR GROUP

We develop and maintain the Scanning Electron Microscope systems. Our solution is important for our customer from semiconductor industry to identify errors in the production of semiconductor components and advance their research and production, to make them more robust, reliable, energy efficient.
We are looking for a Manager of the System Design Engineers team (up to 10 people). Would you like to accept a change and join a new team in a well-established international company?
Would you be willing to take over the responsibility for leading a team which is responsible for development and maintenance of the high-tech scanning electron microscope to provide full automation with a nanometer precision and allows development of the world’s smallest chips and memory modules? Are you person with a strong technical background? Are you looking for the job where you can combine technical leadership and people management?

REQUIREMENTS:

• University Degree in related technical field required
• Experience in management of R&D projects in a multi-disciplinary project organization
• Advanced technical knowledge and conceptual thinking
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Facilitative leader who can grow and empower team members and teams.
• Focus on quality and robustness
• Ability to work in an international context and diverse R&D team that is multi-disciplinary
• Highly motivated teammate with a strong desire for continuous learning and broadening knowledge base
• Willing to travel - occasionally
• Fluent in English - spoken and written

• Provide supervision and mentor system design engineers to support their career growth.
• Provide technical leadership for the development project.
• Support teams in collaboration, problem solving, technical decision-making and removing barriers so that teams can deliver high quality, innovative hardware on time.
• Technical responsibility for the product in the development phase.
• Identify risks during execution and help with their mitigation.
• Drive technical review processes and set clear expectations around the key features of modules and systems development and QA process.
• Support the specification, integration and testing activities of project teams in module development projects to ensure that test results are consistent with the predicted specifications of the target system.
• Effectively negotiate systems requirements with multi-functional teams including sales and marketing, applications engineering, manufacturing and field service.