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Sr. Principal Engineer, PMO MPT

Req # JR - 162341 Location Marsa, Il-Marsa, Malta Job Category Engineering Date posted 02/25/2025
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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.

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  • Continuing Education/ Professional Development

  • Employee Heath & 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

Sr. Principal Engineer, PMO MPT

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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.

Additional Job Description

Your Team

  • While everyone at Baxter has a shared passion for our mission, the ISC Medical Products & Therapies Project Management (MPT PMO) team plays a critical role in our ability to save and sustain lives. Co - located at key manufacturing facilities, with remote flexibility, team members work together to manage product design and materials change projects to successful completion through best practices and stakeholder management. They indirectly manage resources and may directly manage resources. ISC MPT PMO, effectively prioritize projects and interfaces with support functions and facility resources to drive projects to successful completion that ensure high quality, safe and effective products so our patients can live their best lives.
  • We encourage teamwork and collaboration and prioritize building relationships with each other. It's easy to do because we all share common traits of reliability, ethical, and caring. We lean on our colleagues for their expertise and hold each other accountable.

What you’ll be doing

  • As a Sr. Principal Engineer, you will display engineering principles to resolve difficult and ambiguous problems. You will lead large, global cross-functional teams for multiple complex projects. You will plan, schedule, and lead large scale projects with minimal guidance, including defining program strategies, developing project goals, assigning project tasks and ensuring the team meets all project goals.
  • As part of the project management team within the Integrated Supply Chain for MPT, the job entails working primarily but not limited on cost reduction projects and supporting complex projects from conception to implementation with a globally located manufacturing footprint.
  • Occasional travel to Baxter / Supplier / Customer sites internationally will be required.

As a Sr. Principal Engineer, one can expect the following responsibilities:

  • Act independently with minimal supervision to lead global cross-functional teams supporting large cost saving projects.
  • Provide program updates and conduct reviews with all levels of management.
  • Conduct assessments to evaluate the value stream for any given project, build of business cases in relation to the project and its financials.
  • Lead large scale change controls associated with, but not limited to cost saving projects.
  • Using your project management skill sets, you will develop mechanisms for monitoring project progress
  • Prepare as necessary technical protocols and reports.
  • Perform root cause investigations for technical problems.
  • Perform basic statistical analysis and interpret functional testing results.
  • Embrace projects accountability for critical decisions and deliverables with increasing complexity.
  • Utilize creative thinking and teamwork to resolve conflicts/drive rapid decision making across sites/regions and functions.
  • Provide technical direction and mentoring to entry-level engineers.
  • Occasional travel to Baxter / Supplier / Customer sites internationally will be required.

What you’ll bring

  • Bachelor’s degree or Project Management experience.
  • 5+ years of work experience.
  • Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills with ability to interface well with other departments and lead effectively and efficiently in a team environment.
  • Experience with medical products or in a regulated environment is preferred.
  • Experience in one or more of the following disciplines is preferred:
  • Project management
  • Compatibility and comparability studies
  • Formulation experience
  • Filtration experience/expertise
  • Terminal sterilization (Steam/Gamma/eBeam)
  • Plastics expertise (PVC, polycarbonates, etc.)
  • Packaging engineering
  • Transport validation
  • Must be well versed in Project Management tools and must possess knowledge of related disciplines.
  • Strong quantitative and qualitative assessment skills and critical thinking skills in support of analyzing and solving complex problems through innovative thought and experience.
  • Must demonstrate strategic leadership, strong business acumen, and proficient supervisory skills, if applicable.
  • Ability to manage multiple cross-functional teams simultaneously.
  • PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification will be given preference.

Reasonable Accommodations

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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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