Beckman Coulter Life Sciences’ mission is to empower those seeking answers to life’s most important scientific and healthcare questions. With a legacy spanning 80+ years, we have long been a trusted partner to our customers, who are working to transform science and healthcare with the next groundbreaking discovery. As part of our team of more than 2,900 associates across 130 countries, you’ll help drive our vision of accelerating answers—and our commitment to excellence.

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences is one of 10 Life Sciences companies of Danaher. Together, we accelerate the discovery, development and delivery of solutions that safeguard and improve human health.

Do you want to work in R&D to design and develop next generation Automated Sample Preparation Hardware? Do you enjoy leading and managing a hardware design team?

We are currently seeking a Senior Manager of Automated Sample Preparation Hardware who will be responsible for leading our hardware design teams.

This role is hybrid and based in Indianapolis, Indiana as part of the Biotech R&D group.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Providing direction to the automated sample preparation design team and ensure compliance to the organization’s New Product Development process, and other operating procedures and processes ensuring high quality right first-time outputs.

• Using your technical experience to support and interact with scientists, engineers and product management to support product definition, project scope, risk management and design control activities. Provide technical leadership for successful completion of development projects on time, with high quality, on budget, and technical product support through entire program life cycle.

• Developing hardware project plans, identifying dependencies, creating and assessing time and budget estimates, analyzing critical path, analyzing risks and constraints, and identifying resource requirements.

• Working collaboratively with other functions within the Product Line, the wider R&D team and business to achieve On Time Delivery of projects, inquiries and other time sensitive deliverables.

• Ensuring robust processes and standard work are in place using Danaher Business System (DBS) tools. Prioritizing work, resource allocation, and budget forecasts, focusing on increasing engineering efficiency.

• Ensuring talent development, skills matrices, employee engagement, succession plans, training, and resource plans are in place and create a strong culture of innovation and learning within the Design team.

• Developing effective, cross-functional relationships, building credibility, establishing rapport and maintaining communication with stakeholders at multiple levels, including those external to the organization. Fostering teamwork, respect, and a healthy rapport with all co-workers.

The required qualifications for the job include:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (ME or EE preferred) or a related field

• 15+ years of related experience in Project Management

• 10+ years of experience as a people manager

• Leadership and a desire to manage managers who leads teams to build great products

• Experience working with globally distributed teams with a proven track record of delivering projects on time.

• Excellent time management, meeting facilitation, communication, and documentation skills

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Managing managers of cross-functional engineering disciplines

• Leading teams working on software/hardware products

• Developing biotech instrumentation, specifically automated liquid handlers, with a solid understanding of FDA Quality System Regulation

At Beckman Coulter Life Sciences we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, hybrid working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement in which you can work part-time at the Company location identified above and part-time remotely from your home. Additional information about this hybrid work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working for Beckman Coulter Life Sciences can provide.

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