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Job Description
Location/Division: South San Francisco, CA Genetic Sciences Division
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As a Senior Manager, System Design you are key to providing direction and focus to drive division objectives relative to defining and developing instrument and consumable products in the Genetic Sciences Division. You will build, lead and develop a team that defines system aspects of product development alongside highly technical and specialized engineering professionals and scientists to develop hardware platforms used in research and clinical applications.
What will you do?
- 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
How will you get here:
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
Compensation and Benefits
The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $163,100.00-$244,625.00.
This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:
- A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
- Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
- At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
- Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
- Employees' Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount
For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards
What We Do
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.
