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Principal Engineer, Manufacturing Engineering

Req # JR - 168647 Location Marsa, Il-Marsa, Malta Job Category Engineering Date posted 04/04/2025
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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

Principal Engineer, Manufacturing Engineering

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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.

Essential duties & responsibilities:

  • The principal manufacturing engineer is responsible for managing a small team for the research, development, purchasing, planning, implementation, and validation of new or upgraded equipment
  • systems.
  • The principal engineer is responsible in assuring that the engineering team under his/her responsibility is in compliance to all regulatory requirements – FDA, OSHA, OFCCP, EPA, etc.
  • The principal engineer is also responsible to make sure that all the team under his/her responsibility follow and adhere to all environmental, health and safety SOPs with respect to equipment, policies and procedures, including any process specific requirements.
  • The position requires that the principal engineer has people / project management skills, together with problem solving techniques and competences that can thus assist manufacturing to address problems impacting manufacturing (e.g., Quality defects) or to make improvements with existing designs and systems.
  • The position also requires the incumbent to have good interpersonal and communicational skills.
  • The principal engineer will also be required to interact with support functions to ensure that the above objectives/performance can be achieved. This will generally relate to most of the other entities of the plant i.e., distribution, maintenance, R&D, global engineering, logistics, planning and finance.
  • In conclusion to the above, the role of the principal engineer is to guide his/her team to support plant-wide strategic plan programs and activities.

Qualifications

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Relevant technical discipline, including a degree in engineering with a broad background in process development or applied engineering and the utilization of analytical instrumentation in test methods and process engineering.
  • Good knowledge of: Product development stages and life cycle management: development, stability, clinical,
  • registration, process transfer, production, suppliers, customer service.
  • Statistical Analysis and/or Lean/Six Sigma tools.
  • International/regional/national regulations and standards.
  • Able to work with Microsoft Projects
  • Ability to lead a team by having good organizational skills and people management skills

Education and experience

  • 5-7+ years related experience
  • Hold a bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Reasonable Accommodations

Baxter is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities globally. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please click on the link here and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information.

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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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