Senior Manufacturing Engineer I
First seen by Alion on Oct 28, 2026.
Are you a skilled engineer looking to take the next step in your career? STEMCELL Technologies, Canada’s largest biotechnology company, is searching for a highly organized and innovative senior engineer to join our Manufacturing team creating cutting edge laboratory instruments that are essential for researchers across the globe.
As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, you will play an integral part in maintaining and improving processes for our laboratory automation systems in order to increase quality, maximize efficiency and reduce costs. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a creative, multidisciplinary team and deliver innovative solutions for the biotech industry.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Drive the design maintenance and continuous improvement of our instrumentation products including identifying opportunities and implementing changes to improve manufacturability, serviceability, reliability, quality, and margin of our products and processes incorporating industry best practices
- Determine root cause of failures using a systematic approach and statistical methods to recommend changes in designs, tolerances, or processing methods including executing risk assessments and making recommendations for and implementing risk mitigation
- Lead design transfer activities (BOM and work instruction development, jig, and fixture design and implementation, PFMEAs) for new products into production
- Design, build, and validate manufacturing, inspection, and quality control equipment including development of supporting process documentation
- Prepare and maintain manufacturing and service documentation according to company and Quality Management System (QMS) standards
Knowledge and Qualifications
- Bachelors in Mechatronics, Manufacturing, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering with 6+ years of relevant experience, or a Masters in Engineering with 4+ years of relevant experience
- Proven experience in developing and implementing new processes and cost improvements as well as root cause analysis
- Knowledge of material fabrication and finishing techniques for manufacture of complex mechanisms, jigs, and testing equipment
- Experience with diverse technologies and processes, lean manufacturing approaches including standard industry best practices, and performing FMEAs
- Proven communication and interpersonal skills to build and maintain strong, collaborative working relationships with diverse teams as well as strong attention to detail
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STEMCELL Technologies is a privately owned, Vancouver-based biotechnology company that helps power leading-edge life science research around the world. Driven by our love of science and passion for quality, we are a company of Scientists Helping Scientists—standing by our customers to provide the outstanding products, technical support, and training they need to advance their research. Scientists performing stem cell, immunology, cancer, regenerative medicine, and cellular therapy research are among those who rely on our cell culture media, cell separation products, instruments, accessory products, and services. Through our many regional offices, as well as our distribution centers in Vancouver, Seattle, Grenoble, and Singapore, we deliver our innovative, specialized products to more than 100 countries. With over 1,800 employees globally, most with scientific or engineering degrees, STEMCELL is proud to be the largest biotechnology employer in Canada.
This is an opportunity to work with highly motivated colleagues in a science-oriented, creative, and dynamic environment. We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and meaningful career development opportunities.
STEMCELL is well recognized for exceptional leadership and business practices. We are one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies and operate an ISO 14001-certified environmental management system to measure and reduce our environmental impact.
As an equal opportunity employer, STEMCELL is dedicated to ensuring that every employee feels safe, valued, and respected for who they are. We know that scientific progress and innovation occur when diverse, creative minds come together and we are committed to nurturing a culture of inclusivity and belonging. STEMCELL enforces a zero-tolerance policy for any form of discrimination. Selection decisions are solely based on job-related factors.
The annual salary for this job ranges from:
$94,600.00 – $142,000.00
STEMCELL determines an individual’s pay within the range based on multiple factors including experience, education, job-related skills, and equity within the team or organization. For jobs that are eligible for sales incentives, the range noted above is inclusive of target incentives; actual incentives are based on individual performance results in accordance with company policy. In addition to base salary, STEMCELL offers a comprehensive total rewards package including health benefits, retirement savings, and more.