Contract Engineering Manager Jobs in Portland, OR

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As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.
DESCRIPTION:
Join our team and contribute to innovation that enables customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. As a Manager, Technical Sourcing Engineer, you'll lead a team of engineers in developing advanced solutions across our diverse portfolio of scientific instruments and equipment. You'll oversee complex
REQUIREMENTS:
• Advanced Degree plus 6 years of experience, or Bachelor's Degree plus 8 years of experience in mechanical engineering, with 5+ years in leadership roles
• Preferred Fields of Study: Mechanical Engineering or related field
• Professional engineering certification or membership in engineering associations beneficial
• Demonstrated success managing complex technical projects and product development initiatives
• Experience leading and developing engineering teams of 6-12 professionals
• Strong understanding of mechanical and electrical system design principles
• Expertise in CAD software and 3D modeling tools (e.g., SolidWorks, NX)
• Demonstrated ability to implement innovation while ensuring quality and safety standards
• Experience with New Product Introduction (NPI) and stage-gate development processes
• Strong project management skills and ability to coordinate cross-functional teams
• Excellence in technical mentorship and team development
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to travel up to 20-25%
• Knowledge of ISO 9001 quality management systems
• Experience with lean manufacturing and continuous improvement methodologies
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with external partners and research institutions
• Success meeting project timelines while maintaining high quality standards

How will you make an impact?

The Manager Technical Sourcing Engineer (TSE) plays a pivotal role in our Global Value Assurance Organization. You will determine strategies for cost savings, cost avoidance, and revenue generation, while strictly ensuring risk mitigation and supplier quality. Your contributions will enable us to continue delivering world-class solutions that make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.

What will you do?

• Manage a team of Technical Sourcing Engineers
• Collaborate with R&D, product development, quality, procurement, and strategic sourcing to align the global sourcing strategy.
• Successfully conduct cost reduction and manufacturing scale-up initiatives.
• Resolve supplier quality issues to maintain our detailed production standards.
• Focus primarily on mechanical components, assemblies, fabricated sheet metal parts, cast and machined parts, and OEM assemblies.
• Travel up to 20% globally to support and coordinate supplier activities and projects.

How will you get here?

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Electrical Engineering, or Physics. Equivalent field are also acceptable.

Experience

• Experience managing engineering teams
• BS with 8+ years or equivalent experience or MS with 6+ or equivalent experience of hands-on product design, development, and manufacturing experience, or equivalent
• Expertise in Mechanical assembly design or cast, machined, and sheet-metal part design.
• Experience with Particle Optics components and assemblies.
• Expertise in Electrical and Electro-mechanical component and assembly design and manufacturing process.
• Expertise in panel layout and schematic design.
• Experience with electrical and electro-mechanical components in systems design
• Strong project management skills with a consistent track record.
• Experience leading vendors, contract manufacturers, and design firms.
• Proficiency in value engineering, process development, should-cost modeling, and DFA/DFM/DFx methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to manage electromechanical suppliers and contract manufacturers.
• Knowledgeable in regulatory standards such as FDA, NSF, CSA, UL, ISO 13485 in the medical products industry.
• Skilled in CAD Design software such as SolidWorks, Pro/e, or equivalent.
• An understanding of phase gate development processes across diverse teams is helpful.
• Medical devices experience is helpful.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Expertise in building should-cost models for sourced materials.
• Ability to work independently under ambiguous demands within a global organization.
• Demonstrated technical writing skills for producing detailed reports and documents.