Senior Manager, Mechanical Engineering — Infusion Systems

RXinsider LTD.; Round Lake, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Paid time off

Job summary

Baxter is seeking a Senior Manager, R&D Mechanical Engineering to lead a team responsible for designing safe, reliable infusion products from concept to production. You will drive quality, risk management, and manufacturing readiness while collaborating across R&D, Quality, Regulatory, and external partners.

This high-impact leadership role emphasizes building an exceptional engineering organization, accelerating decisions, and ensuring products meet rigorous standards for clinicians and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of mechanical engineering experience developing complex hardware in a regulated industry.
• 3–5+ years leading engineers and cross-functional technical teams.
• Experience with Design Controls, DFMEA, risk management, design verification, quality systems, and technical decision-making.
• Demonstrated success with design transfer, manufacturing readiness, production scale-up, suppliers, or contract manufacturers.
• Strong communication and organizational leadership skills, with the ability to develop talent and drive execution across functional boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Lead, hire, coach, and develop a mechanical engineering team; create an engaged, accountable culture.
• Own mechanical engineering execution for complex electromechanical infusion systems from concept through verification, design transfer, commercialization, production ramp, and sustaining support.
• Raise the standard for design quality through disciplined CAD and drawing practices, tolerance analysis, technical reviews, configuration management, documentation, and design for manufacturing.
• Strengthen Design Controls, DFMEA, Critical Quality Attributes, and product risk management.
• Drive manufacturing readiness with Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, suppliers, or contract manufacturers, ensuring designs, specifications, tooling, test methods, and production controls are complete.
• Provide decisive technical leadership in materials, fluid interfaces, sensing integration, injection molding, root cause analysis, corrective actions, reliability, and high-volume manufacturing.
• Align Systems, Electrical Engineering, Reliability, Quality, Regulatory, Program Management, Manufacturing, and external partners around priorities, ownership, decisions, and delivery commitments.
• Shape the capabilities of Mechanical Engineering, including modeling and simulation, reliability, rapid prototyping, laboratory capability, and modern product-development methods.
• Integrate artificial intelligence into engineering and organizational workflows to create innovative solutions that improve organizational performance and customer experience, with responsible quality, security, privacy, and regulatory oversight.

Skills

Mechanical engineering leadership

Cross-functional leadership

CAD/PDML

DFMEA & risk mgmt

Quality systems & decision-making

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field

Tools

CAD software

Design controls tooling

Job description

Baxter is seeking a Senior Manager, R&D Mechanical Engineering to lead a team responsible for designing safe, reliable infusion products from concept to production. You will drive quality, risk management, and manufacturing readiness while collaborating across R&D, Quality, Regulatory, and external partners.

This high-impact leadership role emphasizes building an exceptional engineering organization, accelerating decisions, and ensuring products meet rigorous standards for clinicians and