Manager, Systems Engineering

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At Beckman Coulter Life Sciences one of Danahers 15 operating companies our work saves livesand were all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

Youll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danahers system of continuous improvement you help turn ideas into impact innovating at the speed of life.

At Beckman Coulter Life Sciences we know time is the most critical facet in the laboratory today: time to get life-saving therapies to patients faster; reclaiming time by automating tedious manual workflows; and saving time spent addressing erroneous or complex results.

We are partners in time and accelerate answers to critical questions through the power of automation. We develop innovations for scientists by scientists with many of our 3300 global colleagues coming from the laboratory.

Its all part of our time-tested approach to bringing meaningful innovations at the speed of life since 1935. And were just beginning. Working together lets put our time and talents together to advance human health for tomorrow.

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This position Manager Systems Engineering (M2) is responsible for the ongoing design and development efforts within Beckman Coulters Automation Liquid Handling platform. A successful individual in this role will utilize technical knowledge experience and engineering tools and methodologies to bridge the gap across functional teams and connect critical elements including Software Firmware Hardware Consumables and Applications. This role will be integrated into ongoing projects to act as the hub of product development by driving system architecture specification and design interfaces subsystem trade-offs traceability of design control requirements verification testing and supporting technology transfer to manufacturing. You will be a critical player on a fast-paced team that is developing our next generation of automation liquid handling solutions.

This position reports to the Head of Automation Hardware and is part of Automation team located in Indianapolis IN and will be an on-site role.

In this role you will have the opportunity to:

• Lead and manage a systems team within new product development.
• Gather insights from customers and own the system architecture for projects in new product development
• Work with project teams and lead the definition of user needs design requirements design traceability and risk analysis
• Deliver tried analytical/experimental problem-solving skills to understand hardware software application issues and quickly analyze and resolve system interoperability problems
• Scope design develop verify and validate new products features and solutions in biotech lab automation
• Design and manage Architecture for system sub-system and interfaces.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Minimum of a bachelors degree or advanced degree in an engineering discipline (Systems Software EE Computer Science)
• 9 years (B.S.) or 7 years (M.S.) of industry experience in architecture development and verification of scientific automation instrumentation robotics or complex electromechanical equipment.
• 3 years of technical management experience.
• Demonstrated leadership communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively.
• Experienced with data acquisition task automation (macros scripting batch files) and analysis with good understanding of statistical concepts
• Architecture design and management for system sub-system and interfaces
• Experience managing a technical engineering team through requirements management (derive write trace maintain) risk analysis (safety risk analysis design risk analysis failure mode effects analysis) and full verification/validation cycle

Travel Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements: if applicable for role

• Ability to lift move or carry equipment up to 20lb
• Ability to travel up to 10% domestic and internationally.

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

• Customer insight gathering and have a strong desire to interact with customers implement customer insights for projects
• Model based system engineering
• Experience with a compiled programming language such as C or C#

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences a Danaher operating company offers a broad array of comprehensive competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether its a health care program or paid time off our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

Join our winning team today. Together well accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrows science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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