Senior Systems Specialist

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Develop mechanical subsystems, assemblies, tooling, fixtures, and fluid handling components.
• Create CAD models, drawings, GD&T, tolerance analyses, BOMs, engineering change documents, and technical reports.
• Coordinate product development with product marketing, systems, electrical, software, manufacturing, quality, sourcing, and service teams.
• Conduct feasibility studies, risk assessments, prototype builds, verification and validation, design transfer, engineering analysis, design reviews, and root-cause investigations.
• Manage configuration, BOMs, engineering changes, design records, obsolescence, cost and quality optimization, and product sustainment.
• Maintain audit-ready Design History Files, support audits, and use PDM systems to release compliant production product data.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.
• 10+ years of mechanical design and development experience with complex equipment, laboratory instruments, fluid handling products, or related electromechanical systems.
• Proven record of taking products from concept through commercialization.
• Strong expertise with Creo, SolidWorks, or equivalent CAD tools and manufacturing-ready documentation.
• Experience with engineering drawings, GD&T, tolerance analyses, BOMs, engineering changes, engineering fundamentals, DFM, DFA, and structured problem-solving.
• Strong collaboration, leadership, communication, independent work, and initiative.

Preferred experience

• Hands-on design, development, building, and testing of life sciences mechanical systems, such as liquid handling, filtration, fluidic assemblies, bioreactors, chromatography instruments, and laboratory platforms.
• PLM, engineering change management, manufacturing processes, and regulated product development experience.
• FEA, CFD, vibration analysis, tolerance and timing analyses, or reliability engineering experience.

About Cytiva

Benefits

• Cytiva describes its benefits as including healthcare programs and paid time off.