Director, Systems Engineering

Overview

As Director, Systems Engineering, you will lead the system engineering activities across Waters-TA Instruments Research and Development (R&D) organization. You will build a system engineering team that will include multi-disciplinary engineers. The Director will establish best practices and processes that apply consistent system engineering principles across a diverse set of products and programs within the R&D organization. You and your team will be responsible for requirements management from user needs to verification and validation, system architecture design (including tradeoff decisions), and regulatory and standards compliance for the design and maintenance of complex electromechanical software-controlled devices

This role will be based in our New Castle, DE headquarters and will report to the Senior Director of R&D, TA Instruments Division

Responsibilities

• Establish a systems engineering function, team, and process that is aligned with the company’s goals and objectives.
• Manage the newly established systems engineering team; providing guidance, coaching, and feedback, and ensuring high performance and engagement.
• Collaborate with global product management and R&D program management and engineering functions to establish and refine system level requirements for new and enhanced products.
• Oversee requirements management and design architectures for products throughout their lifecycle, from concept to launch and sustaining engineering, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and customer requirements.
• Guide the requirements management and system architecture definition processes, ensuring that product systems meet user, functional, performance, safety, and reliability specifications and are also adaptable to support product lifecycle plans and objectives.
• Lead the team in translating system level requirements into product architecture and system level design including partitioning product functionality into sub-systems, creating specifications for each sub-system and documenting the interface requirements among sub-systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including service, marketing, quality and operations.
• Lead development of and maintaining best practices, procedures and processes, and tools for systems engineering, such as requirements management, architecture design, risk management, verification and validation, and traceability.
• Lead continuous improvement and innovation in the systems engineering domain and staying current on the latest technologies and trends in the medical device industry.

Qualifications

• Minimum education and related/relevant work experience required: BS Degree in Engineering or related field and 10 years of related/relevant work experience.
• Proven leadership and management skills, with the ability to inspire, motivate, and develop a diverse and high-performing multi-disciplinary team.
• Demonstrated success leading engineering teams in system requirements definition, architecture and system level design, integration and verification of complex electromechanical software-controlled devices.
• Demonstrated ability to translate high level user and product requirements into system and sub-system level specifications and designs.
• Deep technical understanding of system engineering principles (e.g., functional and structural decomposition, product budgets, formalized decision making, set-based design, and root cause analysis).
• Multi-disciplinary working knowledge of integrated electrical, software (including programming and algorithms), and mechanical systems.
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Proven track record of making strong business and technical decisions in the face of ambiguity and conflicting requirements.
• Analytical mindset and strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in the system level design and development of multiprocessor based devices.
• Working knowledge and experience with electromechanical software-controlled analytical instrumentation systems, such as microprocessor systems design, low-level analog design, power and heat management, embedded software development, DSP, RTOS, control systems, displays, data storage, IPx-rated enclosure design, various communications systems, and DFx principles.
• Working knowledge of usability and human factors engineering and cybersecurity for analytical instruments.

Company Description

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.   

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow. 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status. 

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