Senior Clinical Systems Engineer

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board.

Overview

Waters is looking for a Systems Engineer to join our expanding Clinical Systems team.

Clinical Systems Development is a team which was created to develop Waters Clinical and IVD Systems, Hardware and Software. This is a great opportunity to get involved in a dynamic and committed team with a mission to better meet the unique challenges of our Clinical customers and accelerate the growth of this segment of Waters business.

What can we offer you?

• A plan for your personal development in your own area of specialism, pursuing this with the support of your manager to undertake the training and learning to progress. Including support to pursue professional registration
• Flexible working hours and a hybrid approach
• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave
• Private health and dental insurance
• Contributory based pension scheme
• Subsidised membership of onsite gym
• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)

Responsibilities

As a Systems Engineer within the Clinical team, your responsibilities will include:

• Contributing to the development of Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) Systems for the Clinical Business Unit. You will play a critical role in defining our products: translating voice of customer into requirements, and ensuring that developments based on those requirements result in safe and effective products.
• Collaboration with and support of product owners in understanding & defining a system context and in developing user requirements.
• Close collaboration with a cross functional team of Subject Matter Experts from Hardware and Software Engineering teams to generate system designs/architectures.
• Ownership of system verification and validation documents to provide test evidence that system design requirements have been met.
• Taking an active role in the development and support of existing Waters Clinical systems and technologies.
• Promotion of the use of systems engineering tools, process and practices, including modelling or simulation of emergent system behaviour where appropriate.
• Working within our process and regulatory frameworks, and ensuring that consideration of risk and patient safety are at the core of our products.

Qualifications

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry or a related subject. A MSc in Systems Engineering would be desirable.
• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary engineering team environment, particularly with proven practical experience of LC and/or mass spectrometry or a related discipline.
• Proven experience in the development of LC and/or MS instrumentation, or similar scientific or analytical instrumentation containing sample preparation, chemistry, fluids under pressure, optics, vacuum, particle optics, precision mechanics, electronics, and firmware/software.
• Experience in working with complex systems, including a proven ability to understand high level software and electro-mechanical architecture.
• Ability to work in a regulated environment within a process.
• A technical understanding of the requirements, procedures and physical resources needed to verify sub-assemblies in system environments and complete LC/MS products.
• Ability to network and build cross-functional teams.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills are required, for example to ensure succinct report generation, effective communication with staff, peer groups, etc. across organisation.
• Must be able to work independently and communicate with all levels of the organisation.
• Computer literate - knowledge of Word, PowerPoint and Excel an advantage - in order to produce reports, analyse data etc. effectively.

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.