Job Description Summary

Join a dynamic team working with Agile to develop the next generation of Ultrasound Systems. The Lead System Designer has design responsibility to deliver customer workflow, feature functionality, product quality, reliability, serviceability, manufacturability, regulatory, compliance, and cost. The Lead System Designer plays a critical role in the design and maintenance of our diagnostic ultrasound product, acting as the technical design lead. This individual will oversee and approve design of new products and ensures ongoing maintenance and support of the design history of the product with a strong focus on safety and risk management. Join this high-powered team leading technology solutions at GE HealthCare!

GE Healthcare is a leading global medical technology and digital solutions innovator. Our mission is to improve lives in the moments that matter. Unlock your ambition, turn ideas into world-changing realities, and join an organization where every voice makes a difference, and every difference builds a healthier world.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

A successful candidate will create an inclusive, positive, and empowering team environment, while leading global development teams. A successful candidate will also provide leadership and direction to development team and drive clear decisions based on business objectives.

Duties include (but are not limited to):

• Lead the design team and design control process in requirements development, design planning, verification, validation, and design transfer.

• Ensure user requirements are properly translated into system requirements, designs, and test scenarios.

• Work closely with Product Manager and Program Manger to develop user requirements and define and enforce architectural guidelines.

• Work with global development and cross-functional teams to refine requirements, reflecting user needs, risk mitigations, standards compliance, and regulatory compliance.

• Provide domain expertise to serve as the main integrator between the hardware and software functions to deliver the highest quality product.

• Identify opportunities for quality and productivity improvements and drive continuous process improvements to address those opportunities.

• Coordinate with the Program Manager or Lead Program Integrator to plan the work of other engineers, such as creating work breakdown structures.

• Broad influence over small to medium multi-disciplinary and/or cross-functional teams.

• Drive design evolution across multi-generation product releases.

• Provide oversite and guidance of the resolution of issues within product development, field, and manufacturing issues. This includes leading and directing investigations to determine root causes, assessment of risks, and appropriate CAPA actions.

• Owns overall product quality for product releases.

• Development of product architecture and design decomposition with an emphasis on platforming, re-use, and reliability.

• Execution of Risk Management processes and flow to requirements, leading to compliant and effective mitigation of product risks.

• Provide leadership and operate within Agile and the Scaled Agile Framework

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or closely related discipline.

• 6 years relevant work experience.

• Proven ability to develop timely and effective solutions for challenging design problems.

• Demonstrated ability to pursue tasks to completion.

• Broad exposure to HW/SW/Systems design, and technical depth in one or more engineering disciplines (Electrical, Mechanical, Software, etc.).

Desired Characteristics:

• Master’s degree in engineering or other closely related fields.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Self-starter, energizing, results oriented, and able to multi-task.

• Demonstrated problem solving ability and results orientation.

• Demonstrated ability to own and drive execution and burn down of critical tasks.

• Creative problem solver when presented with conflicting requirements, business demands and technical risks/issues.

• Knowledge of GE Healthcare tools and processes (engineering, sourcing, supply chain such as Agile, PDM, Oracle, MyWorkshop).

• Change agent with energy, passion, and enthusiasm to drive change.

• Experience working in Agile or Scaled Agile Framework.

• Previous experience working with regulated medical products and/or Ultrasound.

We expect all employees to live and breathe our behaviors: to act with humility and build trust; lead with transparency; deliver with focus, and drive ownership –always with unyielding integrity.

Our total rewards are designed to unlock your ambition by giving you the boost and flexibility you need to turn your ideas into world-changing realities. Our salary and benefits are everything you’d expect from an organization with global strength and scale, and you’ll be surrounded by career opportunities in a culture that fosters care, collaboration, and support.

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