Engineering Leader, Surgery USA

Engineering Leader For Surgery Engineering Team

The Engineering Leader for the Surgery Engineering team in the USA leads a multidisciplinary engineering team focused on designing the best mobile c-arms in the world and is based in Salt Lake City. In that capacity, this position owns the product delivery for the USA designed products and provides a single point of accountability and responsibility to all the business level efforts oriented to improve the overall quality of OEC products designed and made in Salt Lake City, providing cross-functional leadership and single point of contact on this matter to the other functions.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Establish a strong functional leadership of the team, including recruitment, team/talent development, skill set improvement, and mentoring
• Resource assignment and prioritization including headcount and base cost budget
• Instilling a rigorous approach to target costing for new products and driving cost out of existing products
• Driving continuous improvement of systems, products, and processes for the Surgery USA Engineering team
• Working internally to resolve business issues that require cross functional leadership and support.
• Support existing products within Manufacturing, Sourcing, Service and Supplier Quality Engineering
• Drive compliance/closure of Regulatory and Quality requirements before approving design changes
• Strategic planner and thinker with ability to drive change across the site.
• Lead change through creative solutions to unstructured product and system design issues
• Build a continuous improvement culture where every team member is encouraged to identify and address improvement opportunities in their areas of expertise.

Required Qualifications

• This role requires significant experience in Engineering/Technology & Functional Management
• Masters degree in Engineering or equivalent
• Demonstrated engineering knowledge, program management, and business planning processes, having experience with the full product lifecycle
• Previous experience in regulated medical device company
• Demonstrated competency in providing leadership and direction in regards to cross-functional aspects of technology development.
• Functional Experience: Excellent program management, organizational design, execution planning and control competency.
• Understanding of regulated Healthcare industry
• Strong business acumen
• Product Life Cycle Experience: Demonstrated experience on global product releases throughout the entire new product development cycle, managing Field Maintenance Instructions (FMIs) and Installed Base releases

Desired Characteristics

• Preferred Product, Clinical, Technology & Scientific Knowledge: Excellent knowledge of patient/customer and segment related clinical applications and workflow as well as scientific/engineering methods/theory with an affinity for technology and clinical solutions within a functional domain.

We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

GE HealthCare offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

GE HealthCare will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).

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