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And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact - innovating at the speed of life.\nWorking at Cytiva means being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life-saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines, new medicines, and cell and gene therapies.\nAt Cytiva you will be able to continuously improve yourself and us - working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other, our customers, and their patients. Take your next step to an altogether life-changing career.\nThe Senior Principal Engineer is a recognized functional and technical expert who provides leadership across a significant engineering domain. The role anticipates complex product, technology, business and regulatory challenges and leads high-impact developments from early concept through design, validation, industrialization and transfer to manufacturing. The position contributes to functional strategy, leads complex multidisciplinary teams, and influences senior stakeholders through authoritative technical guidance.\nThis position reports to the Sr Director, R&D - Filtration Products & Connectors and is part of the Filtration R&D team located at Harbourgate, Portsmouth and will be an on-site role.\nIn this role you will have the opportunity to:\nProvide recognized technical expertise and direction within a significant engineering domain, advancing engineering approaches, standards and technologies. \nContribute to product, technology and functional strategy by translating customer needs, market trends, regulatory considerations and technical opportunities into technical roadmaps and priorities. \nSolve unique and complex engineering problems with broad business impact, applying conceptual and innovative thinking to develop effective solutions. \nAct as a senior design authority for new and existing hardware and disposable devices, challenging requirements, architectures, technical concepts, risk decisions and design trade-offs. \nBuild alignment across R&D, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Sourcing, Commercial and other functions on complex or sensitive technical decisions. \nThe essential requirements of the job include:\nBachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design, or another relevant engineering discipline; advanced degree preferred. \nExtensive relevant engineering experience, including substantial experience in a principal, lead or equivalent technical role. \nDemonstrated recognition as a technical expert in a relevant engineering field, with deep expertise in the job family and broad knowledge of related engineering disciplines. \nProven experience leading complex, multidisciplinary and geographically distributed technical initiatives with notable risk and business impact. \nDemonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders without relying on direct authority. \nStrong track record of resolving novel and highly complex engineering problems and converting ambiguous needs into practical product or technology solutions. \nTravel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:\n20% global travel, overnight stays\nMust have a valid driver’s license with an acceptable driving record\nIt would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:\nKnowledge of design and development practices, including 3D CAD and relevant mechanical design/manufacturing methods such as plastics, assemblies, sheet metal, welding, machining and related processes. \nExperience applying applicable quality, safety and regulatory requirements, for example CE, USP, EMC, Low Voltage, cGMP and Machinery Directive requirements as relevant to the product domain. \nExperience with engineering analysis and validation approaches, including appropriate simulation, strength calculations, verification and validation methods. \nJoin our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. 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