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Senior Engineer, Project Management

Req # JR - 170476 Location Cartago, Provincia de Cartago, Costa Rica Job Category Engineering Date posted 05/20/2025
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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 Heath & Well-Being Benefits

  • Paid Time Off

  • 2 Days a Year to Volunteer

Success Profile

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

Senior Engineer, Project Management

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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.

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. Regardless of your role at Baxter, your work has a positive impact on people around the world. You'll experience a sense of purpose across the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter products and therapies are found in nearly every hospital in the world, in clinics and at home. For more than 85 years, we've pioneered major medical innovations that transform healthcare.

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

As our Senior Engineer, Project Management, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing Baxter-Cartago plant activities related to: •New products

•New processes

•New plant-level projects

•Ensures project compliance in terms of time, cost, resource usage, demand compliance, chain assurance, external suppliers, other Baxter plants, and the impact on other plants  Plant areas always ensuring quality

This is where your skills will help save and sustain lives

As a Senior Engineer, Project Management you will be able  to ensure the fulfillment of projects are of vital support for our Mission, your growth will be guided for our innovation.

Your team

Your team will develop quality products with your help, always thinking about the patient. That means you can be proud of our work and the value we provide to people every day from the joint contribution of your work team

As part of our Baxter Family, you have the opportunity to expand your knowledge through collaboration with a variety of people, exposure to different facets of our portfolio, and a supportive leadership team that fosters continuous development.

Our team has an excellent working environment, oriented towards achieving high-quality objectives. This team is in charge of analyzing, preparing and presenting effective offers with zero errors in the efficiency indicator, strengthening the effectiveness indicator and contributing to strategic sales plans through the bidding channel, which supports our mission to save and sustain lives.

What you'll do at Baxter

1. Plan, coordinate, and manage plant projects in order to ensure that they are completed according to the budgeted time and cost.

2. Ensure the fulfillment of the projects taking into consideration the needs of all the departments that serve as stakeholders of the same, for example Supply Chain, Production, Engineering.

3. When applicable, coordinate with other Baxter plants, suppliers, local project engineer, and
procurement to assess the impact and assess the risk of project implementations.

4. Coordinates the management of project stakeholders, both local and external to the plant, so that there is always effective and constant communication.

5. For the execution of their work, daily communication is required with local engineers in charge of projects,
collaborators from the different departments of the plant, Corporate Tech Center, Corporate Project Managers , and Research and Development, guaranteeing the correct flow and local implementation of the projects

6. During project planning, he performs impact evaluation of changes to processes, involving: personnel, machinery, materials, and ensuring the efficiency and quality of the product.

 7. Responsible for the schedule of the projects in charge, ensuring timely implementation.

8. Owner of the plant's project office meeting, PRB (Project Review Board) of the company and
provides information related to its projects, communicating financial impacts and status on the implementation date as planned.

9. To carry out the financial and qualitative benefit analyses associated with the projects proposed or in execution.

10. Due to the nature of the functions, interaction with other areas of the company, such as
Supply Chain, Finance, Maintenance, Sterilization, Production, among others, is required to efficiently attend to matters related to the projects in charge

11.  Apply problem solving according to the DMAIC methodology

12.  Support in Business Cases and information required for plant strategy projects.

13. Lead and manage the Cartago Project Review Board to ensure an active board for decision-making and vision alignment across projects such as CAPEX, VIP, and
Kaizen, and provide information related to their projects, communicating financial impacts and status on the implementation date as planned.

14. Understand and effectively communicate to team members the market niche, the competitive forces influencing the project, and how the project fits into the plant's strategic approach/plan.

15. Take responsibility for the project management system, identifying and resolving problems that may jeopardize project schedules. Improve project timelines through the PRB forum.

16. Identify opportunities for cross-training/comparison with other facilities. Directing team members, guiding them in priority-setting, problem solving, process clarification, referral to appropriate experts, etc.

17.  He is responsible for the performance of the project implementing team, the Gantt and programme implementation, budget
commitments and expenditure in his project portfolio.

18. Applying frameworks for project management such as Agile SCRUM

What you'll bring to the table

Industrial, Chemical or Mechanical Engineer, Materials or related career.

5 years of experience in similar positions

 Bilingual (English, Spanish), B2+ according to the Belt Standard

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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 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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