Senior Project Engineer - EMC, Product Safety and Environmental Testing

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The Compliance Project Engineer plans, coordinates, and delivers compliance testing projects from intake through final report issuance. This role is the primary interface between product-development teams and the laboratory, and is responsible for test scope definition, test contracts, scheduling, standards interpretation, documentation, approvals, and project deliverables in an accredited, regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Plan and coordinate assigned EMC, product safety, and environmental testing projects in accordance with laboratory procedures, testing strategies, project commitments, and applicable standards.

• Work with customers and engineering teams to define test scope, required inputs, test articles, configurations, applicable standards, acceptance criteria, schedules, and deliverables.

• Prepare and maintain test plans and STL test contracts, and coordinate the required customer, technical, and quality approvals.

• Issue test reports and data packages, and coordinate subject-matter expert and quality review and approval for design verification deliverables.

• Evaluate deviations from an STL test contract and determine, with laboratory management, whether a contract revision or a new contract is required, ensuring the basis for the decision is documented.

• Coordinate laboratory capacity, personnel, equipment, facilities, and external resources, and escalate risks to scope, quality, schedule, cost, or safety.

• Track test execution, open issues, configuration changes, failures, retesting, corrective actions, and decisions through project completion.

• Ensure test plans, reports, approvals, and supporting records are complete, traceable, controlled, and stored in the required systems and repositories.

• Interpret applicable standards and coordinate with technical experts, CBTL, and national certification bodies when requirements, scope, or conclusions require clarification.

• Support audit readiness and audit responses by providing accurate project records, technical evidence, status, and corrective-action information.

• Communicate clear and timely project updates to internal stakeholders and leadership, including risks, resource conflicts, schedule changes, and decisions required.

• Participate in cross-training and structured knowledge transfer, including capture of standards expertise and lessons learned from experienced laboratory personnel.

• Support hands-on testing, technical troubleshooting, or report preparation when needed and within demonstrated competency.

• Perform additional laboratory and project responsibilities as assigned by the Senior Manager based on demonstrated competency, workload, and organizational needs.

Desired Skills for Success in this role:

• Experience operating and maintaining in-vitro diagnostic products.
• Experience coordinating compliance, certification, verification, or product-development projects in a regulated environment.

• Familiarity with ISO/IEC 17025, IECEE CTF programs, quality systems, audit preparation, and controlled technical records.

• Working knowledge of EMC, product safety, and environmental testing standards used for medical or in-vitro diagnostic equipment.

• Experience with risk management, configuration control, corrective actions, and formal technical communication.

• Ability to influence cross-functional teams, resolve ambiguity, and maintain momentum across competing priorities.

Required skills for the success in this role:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, a related technical field or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

• Minimum of 5 years of engineering, compliance, test, project or product-development experience; regulated industry experience preferred.

• Working knowledge of applicable EMC, product safety, environmental, or certification standards, including the IEC 61326, IEC 61010, or IEC 60601 series.

• Demonstrated experience with project planning, technical documentation, scheduling, and stakeholder coordination.

• Strong written, verbal, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and the ability to learn laboratory document and record-management systems.

Work Environment and Expectations:

Full-time, onsite role located in Newark, Delaware. The position operates in a hands-on laboratory and product-development environment and may require occasional overtime, domestic travel, manual handling of equipment or test articles, and collaboration with global teams.

Who we are: We are a team of more than 72,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work: When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

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The base pay range for this position is:

$98,140 - $134,937

Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

If this is a commission eligible position the commission eligibility will be in accordance with the terms of the Company's plan. Commissions are based on individual performance and/or company performance.

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan. life insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time.

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