Senior Project Engineer

Danaher - Global; Newquay; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Cytiva, part of Danaher, is seeking a Senior Project Engineer to lead strategic projects in the Life Sciences industry. This role involves managing project delivery, improving operations, and ensuring compliance. Ideal candidates will have a degree in engineering and significant experience in manufacturing environments to enhance quality and performance.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in delivering Mfg Engineering projects.
• Strong track-record of improving Safety, Quality and Performance.
• Effective planning and structured approach to workload.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support efficient working teams to execute project improvements.
• Manage projects on-time and within budget.
• Develop and validate new equipment/process changes.

Skills

Project Management

Risk Management

Data-Driven Decisions

Problem Solving

Education

Degree in Manufacturing or Mechanical Engineering

Project Management Certification

Job description

Working at Cytiva in the Life Sciences industry means being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life-saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines, new medicines, and cell and gene therapies.

At Cytiva you will be able to continuously improve yourself and us – working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other, our customers, and their patients. With associates across 40 countries, Cytiva is a place where every day is a learning opportunity – so you can grow your career and expand your skills in the long term.

Cytiva 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.

We are looking for a Senior Project Engineer to provide project management, hands-on execution and delivery of strategical & technical projects within the Discovery & Medical OpCo. This shall be achieved through developing, collaborating and leading teams to achieve OpCo agreed goals on-time, within budget and demonstrating the required Performance & Quality.

What You'll Do:

• Lead and support efficient working teams to plan, execute and sustain project improvements within D&M Operations.

• Execute projects on-time, on-budget and achieve operational performance in Safety, Quality and Delivery.

• Lead Risk Management and Business Continuity planning for projects to control and reduce the risk of adverse impact on Operations and Commerical delivery to our Customers and Stakeholders.

• Ensure products are manufactured to specification and project changes maintain compliance to QMS.

• Specify, Develop, Purchase and Validate new equipment / process or site changes to manufacturing by efficiently following Cytiva and Pall Medical Change Control processes where applicable.

• Own and lead agreed cost saving projects for the Business via process improvements and waste reduction initiatives, leveraging DBS to excute the right way and to ensure sustainment of benefits.

• Identify, implement and sustain improvements to improve Safety, Quality and Delivery performance

• Supervise, mentor and support the relevant technical and project team members within your remit.

• Liaise with Stakeholders to build strong, well-thought-out business cases and engaged project delivery teams.

• Control the departmental budget related to your area of responsibility.

• Maintain personal compliance to procedures & policies and support continuously improving the training of our Technical Engineering team.

Who You Are:

• Degree in Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, Project Mgmt with a technical/operations bias.

• Hands on experience of delivering Mfg Engineering projects/improvements/experience in managing change within a manufacturing environment.

• Strong track-record of successfully improving and sustaining Safety, Quality and Performance of our manufacturing equipment.

• Demonstrated ability to act with urgency, deliver sustained results, work well within a team, and demonstrates a commitment to delivering results.

• Effective planning, ability to make detailed analysis and data-driven decisions, structured approach for both your own workload and also the support of others to enable efficient and effective project execution.

• Demonstrates the ability to Lead, mentor and supervise a project team to deliver sustained improvements to manufacturing.

• Able to effectively supervise external contractors, machine-builders, and other suppliers to achieve the required business deliverables against committed timescales.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s 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.

For more information, visit www.danaher.com.

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