Job Description Summary

In recent years, Medication Management Solutions (MMS) has built on this history through a significant expansion into the high-growth pharmacy automation space and is now one of the global leaders in pharmacy automation. The Pharmacy Automation platform positions BD to offer our pharmacy customers a more comprehensive set of thoughtful, connected care technologies as they expand care to new settings, centralize their pharmacy operations and own the charge in addressing some of the biggest challenges facing the industry, including health care worker burnout and the global clinician shortage. BD’s Pharmacy Automation portfolio covers a wide range of hardware and software technologies from storage and dispensing robots, vision solutions, pouch packagers, vial filling systems, blister card production systems as well as central fill solutions and enterprise pharmacy management software solutions.

We are searching for a Staff Systems Engineer to join our MMS Pharmacy Automation team focused on our vision and inspection portfolio of electromechanical instruments and software. The Staff Systems Engineer serves as a subject matter expert in their field with depth and breadth of experience, knowledge and skills in vision/imaging systems, robotics, and data science. System Engineers at BD are characterized by their disciplined, quantitative approach to system and technology integration as well as diverse cross-functional backgrounds and experience. In addition to technical expertise, system engineers bring strong leadership and team building skills.

Job Description

We are the makers of possible 

 

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health��� is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities. 

 

We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us. 

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems.  Solutions are imaginative, thorough, practical, and consistent with objectives.  Exercises latitude in determining technical objectives of the assignment methods and in selecting techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining resolution based on risk-based assessment (including dFMEA analysis and input into System Hazard Analysis).

• Leads integration efforts between functions, both within R&D and extended teams (Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Customer Service, Operations)

• Contributes to the completion of specific programs and projects, and develops work plans to reduce concept to design. 

• Owns derivation & test of product requirements and high-level design system and subsystem specifications.  This includes derivation from user needs, writing, tracing, characterizing, and verifying specification performance.

• Assumes a technical contributor role and works closely with other functional groups.  Will provide guidance and work direction to cross-functional team members including mechanical engineers, reliability engineers, software developers, and software test.

• Independently evaluates problems of high complexity and applies analytical/scientific principles to fulfill project and business objectives.  Designs and performs development activity independently with minimal supervision.

• Development of detailed subsystem workflow step and exception logic to guide software in development of instrument functions as well as to inform Theory of Operation for product/solution.

• Collects, records, analyzes, interprets, reports, and, presents results to cross functional colleagues and leaders. 

• Responsible for employing DFSS (Design for Six Sigma) and product development best practices to manage technical risk and impart product robustness and reliability.

• Understanding qualification & verification of systems, lead system verification and validation activities for their cross-functional project team including: protocol writing, execution, and reporting.

• Contributes to the transition from R&D to manufacturing/service and supports system troubleshooting activities for products in the field.

• Liaison between R&D and Quality/Reliability functions to inform/support functions based on quality procedures including risk analysis, verification/validation for specific subsystems.

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