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Apply now for the position of Design Change Lead, and you will lead end-to-end design changes for medical devices, ensuring changes are delivered safely, compliantly, and on time in line with applicable quality and regulatory requirements.
Your Role:
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You will lead cross-functional design change execution from initiation to closure (ECR/ECO), coordinating R&D, Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Service.
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You will ensure design changes follow design control requirements, maintaining clear traceability across user needs, design inputs/outputs, verification/validation, and design review evidence.
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You will lead change impact and risk assessments, defining risk controls and ensuring residual risk is acceptable and documented.
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You will plan and drive verification and validation activities for design changes, ensuring test strategy, protocols, reports, and objective evidence support intended use and regulatory submissions as required.
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You will ensure timely updates to the technical documentation, drawings/specifications, IFU/labelling (where applicable), and associated records under document control.
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You will ensure manufacturing readiness for released changes (process updates, supplier alignment, inspection methods, training) and support implementation, effectiveness checks, and linkage to CAPA/complaints as needed.
Your Expertise:
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You have experience leading design changes in a highly regulated environment, including cross-functional change governance and implementation.
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You have strong working knowledge of design controls and regulated quality management system expectations.
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You can influence and align stakeholders at all levels, facilitating design reviews and driving timely decisions in a matrix organisation.
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You have experience planning/overseeing verification and validation, and maintaining robust technical documentation.
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You understand manufacturing and supplier change implementation, including process validation impacts, inspection strategies, and working effectively with CAPA/complaints and post-market feedback.
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You bring strong organisation and delivery focus, attention to detail, and a continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to manage multiple changes in parallel.
Our Benefits:
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26 days' holiday with the option to buy or sell an additional 10
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Up to 10% employer pension contribution
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Share and bonus scheme
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Access to our flexible benefits from private medical insurance to dental cover
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Corporate Social Responsibility opportunities including 2 paid volunteering days per year and support from our 24/7 employee assistance programme
Who we are:
We are a team of more than 71,000 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.
As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from individuals with disabilities.
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