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At Cytiva, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.
You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.
Working at Cytiva 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. Take your next step to an altogether life-changing career.
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The Systems Engineer is responsible for system engineering on a per project or technical area basis, focusing on the support of our pre-clinical scale products. You will work with Product Management, Quality Assurance, Operations and Service to improve the quality of released products by investigating and resolving any product quality related issues. You will also work with the production team to continually enhance production line activities and related production text fixtures & jigs and act as the technical interface with our suppliers for the support of existing components as well as the implementation of new and/or revised components.
This position reports to the Sr Manager, Sustaining Engineering and is part of the Engineering R&D team located in Vancouver, BC with periodic visits to our other site location in Burnaby, and will be an on-site role.
What you will do:
- Design and Documentation: Improve the performance and quality of electro-mechanical components and PCBA's in our lineup of microfluidic instruments. Develop and execute engineering best practices – FMEAs, PFMEA’s to document updated designs, develop work instructions, and transfer proposed design changes into production.
- Quality Improvement: Investigate and resolve any product quality-related issues. Drive root cause investigations and develop, test and implement subsequent design changes for internal and service field-related instrument issues.
- Production Support: Investigate and resolve production line issues and support service team with any field escalations.
- Supply Chain: Source and validate alternative sources for production parts to improve sourcing base, helping to ensure continuity of supply.
- Regulatory Compliance: Support 3rd party regulatory testing required to maintain or improve product compliance, performance and reliability.
Who You Are:
- Engineering degree, preferably in Systems Engineering, Engineering Physics, or Mechatronics
- 5+ years experience in product development
- Excellent overall knowledge of mechanical, electrical and software design
- Fluent in English verbal and written technical communication.
It would be a plus if you also possess pervious experience in:
- Experience in a manufacturing and/or biotechnology environment is an asset
Cytiva, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.
The annual salary range for this role is $85,000 - $100,000 CAD. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.
This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.
We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and retirement benefits to eligible employees.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
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.
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