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Principal Plastic Engineer

Req #: JR - 124844 Location: Bajos de Haina, Provincia de San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic Job Category: Engineering Date posted: 03/18/2024

Overview

Being an Engineer at Baxter means you play a critical role in helping us achieve our mission to save and sustain lives. From innovative product design through to production and patient delivery, our Engineers are key to delivering results for our customers and patients worldwide.

  • Support for Parents

  • Continuing Education/
    Professional Development

  • Employee Health &
    Well-Being Benefits

  • Paid Time Off

  • 2 Days a Year to Volunteer

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What makes a successful Engineer at Baxter? Take a look at some of the top traits we’re looking for and see if you’re a fit.

  • Problem Solver
  • Analytical Thinker
  • Data Driven
  • Solution Focused & Results Oriented
  • Collaborative
  • Innovative

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Principal Plastic Engineer

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Your role at Baxter

This is Where you Leads and manages identified / approved projects from concept to execution, using appropriate tools to ensure a robust implementation efficiently reaching the original deliverables of the project.

Your Team

We develop quality products with the patient in mind, so our efforts are also patient-centric. That means you can be proud of our work and the value we provide to people every day. As a large, multinational organization, you have the opportunity to expand your knowledge through collaboration with a variety of individuals, exposure to different facets of our portfolio, and a supportive leadership team that encourages ongoing development.

What you'll be doing

  • Leads as SME by providing systems and solutions for new and existing applications, with the aim of satisfying the needs of our internal and external customers. · Includes special projects including those coming from Manufacturing Strategy, Corporate R&D, Sustain Engineering, Special Programs and plant new areas, new product introduction, legislation/regulatory requirements update and transfer.
  • Identify and prepare the required documentation for submission of projects, including detailed descriptions of the operation, plans, budget estimations and provide the necessary monitoring to ensure approval. · This should include business case preparation, project tracker and Gantt Charts, tier/accountability ownership and appropriate escalation.
  • Coordinate by leading less experienced engineers. Set technical strategy for extrusion and molding technologies to ensure implementation of new process in the facility and the continuous improvements of these technologies.
  • 4. Design and interprets complex experimental studies intended to provide supporting data and solve technical issues of projects and implemented processes.
  • Analyse processes to identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities to ensure benefits / savings for the operation.
  • Implementation could include and is not limited to: validation of products, processes and new technologies, FOC implementation, learning curves and manufacturing ramp up coordination making sure BSC plant indicators are supported.
  • Submit change projects, Proposed Initiatives (PI) and Change Control per Track wise following the procedures.
  • Work with validation of systems, equipment and processes using objective evidence to ensure that a process consistently produces products that meet predetermined specifications.
  • Participate with the implementation of corrective actions arising from customer complaints.
  • Observes all company and regulatory EHS requirements.
  • Learn and practice basic ergonomic principles to reduce job-related discomfort and injuries.
  • Identify and evaluate all risks and environmental aspects of the area of responsibility. Able to recognize new risks.
  • Ensure that personnel under his/her supervision are trained and know the risks and environmental aspects of the area.
  • Light Work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. Physical demands requirements are in excess of those for Sedentary Work. Even though the weight lifted may be only a negligible amount, a job should be rated Light Work: (1) when it requires walking or standing to a significant degree; or (2) when it requires sitting most of the time but entails pushing and/or pulling of arm or leg controls; and/or (3) when the job requires working at a production rate pace entailing the constant pushing and/or pulling of materials even though the weight of those materials is negligible.

What you'll bring

  • Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Electrical, Electronics or Mechanical. Six Sigma Certification desire
  • Lean Manufacturing Certification desire
  • 5 – 10 years experience in related field required (extrusion, molding, process engineering)
  • Bilingual (Spanish and English) Oral and Writing.
  • Prefer experience with TQM methods (e.g. "six sigma") Display a solid technical understanding of engineering principles and procedures (e.g. CAD and its application or scheduling a series of technical tasks utilizing software-based tools. Understand and articulate how own role ties within function or discipline. Demonstration application of engineering principles on individual/small projects. Uses computer applications to do process analysis. Excellent problem-solving techniques. Excellent interpersonal skills. Six-sigma Engineering considered a plus. Knowledge of Design Control Requirements. Knowledge of GMP, FDA, OSHA, QLP. Some traveling required

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Our company is enriched by a diverse population of individuals in more than 100 countries that work to solve, innovate, manufacture and drive better healthcare options for patients around the world.

Meet Anwesha – recently promoted to Manager, she leads a team of software engineers for our Medication Delivery business.

“I grew up in a small coastal town in India called Bhubaneswar, where we have our own traditions and culture. I think this has helped me grow personally and professionally. Working with a global team at Baxter, my background helps me to be open, appreciate and relate to people from all different places.”

Meet Sam – he has been with Baxter for over 15 years, working as an Engineering Technologist in Round Lake, IL, US.

“I have a wonderful team. They have been flexible and open to the differences in communication methods and work style necessary for me to excel. If I didn’t have that support, I wouldn’t be where I am now and I wouldn’t have been able to advance within the company. I’m proud to work at Baxter.”

Meet Erika – she has been an engineer in Round Lake, IL, US for over four years, promoted to Senior Principal Engineer in 2019.

“My involvement with National Society of Black Engineers outside of work has afforded me the opportunity to manage Baxter’s external partnership with the organization, exposing us to networking and talent that can help drive diversity and innovation, and providing opportunities for more community engagement and involvement, which I know a lot of my colleagues like.”

Hear from Our Employees

Our company is enriched by a diverse population of individuals in more than 100 countries that work to solve, innovate, manufacture and drive better healthcare options for patients around the world.

Meet Sarah – (center) with members of the Baxter Engineering team who initiated a corporate partnership with Society of Women Engineers.

“Initially I thought I would go to medical school and become a doctor, but I remember calling my mom sophomore year in college and saying ‘I’m going to miss my math.’ I realized at that moment that I preferred to be behind the scenes helping patients by making products that will save them.”

Meet Anwesha – recently promoted to Manager, she leads a team of software engineers for our Medication Delivery business.

“I grew up in a small coastal town in India called Bhubaneswar, where we have our own traditions and culture. I think this has helped me grow personally and professionally. Working with a global team at Baxter, my background helps me to be open, appreciate and relate to people from all different places.”

Meet Sam – he has been with Baxter for over 15 years, working as an Engineering Technologist in Round Lake, IL, US.

“I have a wonderful team. They have been flexible and open to the differences in communication methods and work style necessary for me to excel. If I didn’t have that support, I wouldn’t be where I am now and I wouldn’t have been able to advance within the company. I’m proud to work at Baxter.”

Meet Erika – she has been an engineer in Round Lake, IL, US for over four years, promoted to Senior Principal Engineer in 2019.

“My involvement with National Society of Black Engineers outside of work has afforded me the opportunity to manage Baxter’s external partnership with the organization, exposing us to networking and talent that can help drive diversity and innovation, and providing opportunities for more community engagement and involvement, which I know a lot of my colleagues like.”

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