Vantive: A New Company Built On Our Legacy

Baxter is on a journey to separate our ~$5B Kidney Care segment into a standalone company. Vantive* will build on our nearly 70-year legacy in acute therapies and home and in-center dialysis to provide best-in-class care to the people we serve. We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us.

At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us are driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us as we revolutionize kidney care and other vital organ support.

*Completion of the proposed separation of Kidney Care from Baxter into a standalone company (to be named Vantive) remains subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions.

About Baxter

Baxter provides a broad portfolio of essential renal and hospital products, including home, acute, and in-center dialysis; sterile IV solutions; infusion systems and devices; parenteral nutrition; surgery products and anesthetics; and pharmacy automation, software, and services. The company’s global footprint and the critical nature of its products and services play a key role in expanding access to healthcare in emerging and developed countries. Baxter’s employees worldwide are building upon the company’s rich heritage of medical breakthroughs to advance the next generation of healthcare innovations that enable patient care.

Role Summary:

As Senior Systems engineering professional with experience will be responsible for Product Requirements management, Traceability, DHF structure & maintenance, Product Risk management, System integration, verification, and validation of medical devices. This position may own & perform relevant Systems Engineering activities for a family of devices in Acute therapies.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performs the activities associated with the Systems engineering of one or more products in various stages of the product lifecycle from new product development to post market surveillance.
• Gathers inputs for Requirements from various sources such as Standards, User needs, Regulatory, Quality, Human factors, Manufacturing, Service and so on. Performs impacts assessment on the requirements on an ongoing basis for any proposed design/material/process change or an observation in the field/service or manufacturing to determine the impact and need for any mitigation. Come-up with the recommended mitigation with the rationale.
• Expedite, manage, and coordinate interrelated systems activities across functions, within the constraints of human and financial resources and changing priorities.
• Participate in identifying and planning tasks, activities, and resourcing needs related to systems engineering.
• Facilitate an improved understanding of the interrelationship between Requirements, Risk and Reliability.
• Working knowledge of FMEAs and standards applicable to Systems Engineering.
• Understands clinical and user needs and is able to apply to product realization.  Creates and maintains Design History File elements.
• Successfully influences stakeholders and cross-functional team members within the project.
• Leverages knowledge of technology, process, and/or therapy domains to drive solutions and product design realization from a systems perspective.
• Ability to apply life cycle management principles across all phases of life cycle management.
• Initiates, develops and leads technical feasibility analysis for products or subsystems; translates customer/user needs to product needs.
• Drives adherence to FDA, ISO and IEC design control procedures, regulations and standards.

Qualifications and Experience:

• An engineering graduate in Electrical, Mechanical, Biomedical or related engineering discipline with 6-10 years of experience. Prior experience in Medical/Acute device domain is a plus.
• Demonstrated broad exposure to HW/SW/Systems design and technical depth in one or more engineering disciplines (Electrical, Mechanical, Software, etc)
• A demonstrated track record in electromechanical system development, preferably medical devices or other highly regulated products such as military hardware.
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written
• Demonstrated strategic technical planner and thinker with ability to drive architecture/ platform/ technology deliverables into the product roadmap to ensure competitive differentiation.

Baxter is committed to supporting the needs for flexibility in the workplace. We do so through our flexible workplace policy which includes a minimum of 3 days a week onsite. This policy provides the benefits of connecting and collaborating in-person in support of our Mission.

Reasonable Accommodations

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