Sr Manager, Systems Design Engineering

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

Location/Division: South San Francisco, CA Genetic Sciences Division

EDUCATION

BS/MS/Ph.D. degree in a technical Engineering field or Applied Physics

EXPERIENCE

• 5 years’ proven experience in system engineering role leading hardware platforms
• Demonstrated ability to develop talent in an R&D product development or sustaining role
• Considerable experience in developing high complexity integrated life sciences or clinical instrumentation, consumables, and software
• Expertise in systems engineering processes, from requirements gathering and risk analysis to statistical power in validation
• Proven to build phenomenal teams with great culture and is able to attract, engage, and retain top talent
• A solid understanding of a range of analytical instrumentation (capillary electrophoresis, chromatography, spectroscopy, mass spectrometry)D
• Technical expertise in fluidics/microfluidics, optical detection, chemistry, electrokinetics, pneumatics
• Proven experience working across multi-disciplined teams / cross - functional teams –scientists, engineers and software personnel. Shown success at networking across the company

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Champions collaborative relationships and builds credibility across functions/teams
• Encourages, influences, and empowers employees across a global matrix to achieve goals
• Able to passionately lead and empower teams to develop impactful strategies and plans
• Maintains a high level of professional expertise through familiarity with current engineering/scientific literature, competing technologies, and/or products as well as attendance of seminars and meetings
• Excellent organizational skills, including the ability to efficiently evaluate, prioritize and balance multiple and changing programs/projects and priorities

• Develop and mentor individual contributors to operate through the entire product process from incubation, development, and sustaining to achieve an industry leading scale and cost position
• Partner with our Product Management teams to define customer system architecture and integration design, development, feasibility testing
• Partner with the Operations team to improve our current manufacturing processes and scale
• Understand customers and effectively and be passionate about representing their needs in product requirements
• Develop teams that partner with multi-functional owners to ensure robust process of the design and development of integrated systems from beginning to end of the molecular biology workflows including effective stage gate design reviews, d/pFMEA processes, and design documentation