Manager, Continuous Engineering

Join us in pioneering breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

Our inspiring and caring environment forms a global community that celebrates diversity and individuality. We encourage you to step beyond your comfort zone, offering resources and flexibility to foster your professional and personal growth, all while valuing your unique contributions.

Ensures efficient Project Management (PM) coordination and administration, and ensures adherence to defined and agreed process and commercial standards and guidelines.

Team Leadership & Strategy
• Leads, develops, and mentors a team of Program Managers, driving accountability and high performance.
• Establishes program management standards, tools, and best practices across R&D.
• Aligns program execution with R&D strategy, product portfolio, and technology roadmap.
• Drives organizational prioritization, resource planning, and capacity management.

Program Oversight & Execution
• Oversees a portfolio of R&D programs, ensuring delivery against cost, schedule, quality, functionality, and customer satisfaction targets.
• Provides guidance and escalation support on risks, opportunities, budgets, and resource allocation.
• Ensures consistent execution of project governance, agreements, and development processes.
• Maintains accountability for overall program health and successful outcomes.

Cross-Functional Leadership
• Drives strong collaboration across engineering, product management, quality, regulatory, and operations.
• Ensures alignment and transparency across teams, removing obstacles and enabling execution.
• Facilitates key program reviews and decision-making forums at the organizational level.

Governance, Communication, Reporting
• Establishes and maintains program governance frameworks, metrics, and reporting standards.
• Provides clear portfolio-level reporting to senior leadership (Director/VP), including status, risks, and key milestones.
• Leads portfolio planning, prioritization, and launch readiness reviews.
• Ensures compliance with architecture, design, quality, safety, regulatory, and IP standards across programs.

Continuous Improvement
• Drives continuous improvement initiatives across program management practices.
• Promotes knowledge sharing, lessons learned, and reuse across teams.
• Identifies and implements process improvements to increase efficiency and predictability.

What you will have:
• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree with 6+ years of experience.
• Proven experience leading program managers and managing complex technology or engineering portfolios, preferably in a regulated environment.
• Proficiency with standard business and productivity tools (MS Office suite).

Core Competencies
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Deep understanding of engineering workflows, design controls, and structured development processes.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage and prioritize a portfolio of complex programs.
• Strong analytical, strategic thinking, and data-driven decision-making skills.
• Experience in design engineering, service tooling, or hardware product development is highly beneficial.

Who we are: We are a team of more than 72,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work: When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

To find out more about Siemens Healthineers businesses, please visit our company page here.

The base pay range for this position is:

$107,060 - $147,213

Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

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