Principal Laboratory Engineer

About the role

Drives initiatives to improve the effectiveness of the Engineering function and interfaces with other functions to provide effective coordination of metrics, dashboards, functional processes, and cross-functional initiative coordination. Impacts approaches, projects and programs in the functional area or affected business organization and ways of working. Impacts quality, efficiency and effectiveness of own team. Has significant input into priorities. Guided by professional practices and policies that are shaped by the role. The role has moderate autonomy, requiring high levels of operational judgment.

Join a Team That Improves The Quality of GE HealthCare Products! As the GEHC Certification Labs Principal Engineer, you will join a highly talented global engineering team with a proven track record of supporting GE HealthCare product certification, uncovering and resolving complex product-design issues, and improving the quality, reliability, and performance of products used in healthcare environments around the world. This is a highly visible technical leadership role for an engineer who enjoys solving challenging problems and translating deep technical expertise into practical improvements. You will help define the mechanical and environmental testing technologies, laboratory capabilities, and technical strategies that enable GE HealthCare engineering teams to develop safe, reliable, and high-quality medical devices. You will work across disciplines and product teams, helping engineers identify issues earlier, understand product behavior more completely, and make better-informed design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for GE HealthCare’s global mechanical and environmental laboratory capabilities, ensuring that they continue to meet evolving product-development, certification, and business needs.
• Research and evaluate complex medical-device hardware designs against product, system, regulatory, and testing requirements.
• Partner with design teams to identify, investigate, and resolve product-design issues involving material selection, thermal management, acoustic noise, structural performance, mechanical integration, and data-collection systems.
• Develop testing technology strategies and capability roadmaps in collaboration with global, cross-functional engineering teams.
• Translate complex technical strategies, risks, and findings into clear, actionable information for engineers and business leaders.
• Advocate for effective testing technologies and laboratory capabilities in engineering, business, and customer interactions.
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering methods, testing processes, laboratory capabilities, and product-development outcomes.
• Provide leadership and technical guidance to the global Mechanical Component Review Board, helping teams select appropriate technologies throughout the product lifecycle.
• Stay current with relevant standards, regulations, and laboratory requirements; assess the impact of changes and help engineering teams implement practical, compliant solutions.
• Mentor and develop mechanical and electrical engineers through technical reviews, problem-solving activities, and hardware-platform initiatives.
• Foster an inclusive technical environment in which engineers can openly share ideas, challenge assumptions, and collaborate to solve difficult problems.
• Comply with the GE HealthCare Quality Manual, Quality Management System, Quality Policy, Quality Goals, and applicable laws and regulations.
• Maintain current knowledge of regulatory and accreditation requirements applicable to the laboratory’s areas of responsibility.
• Support laboratory accreditations and implementation of current regulatory requirements.
• Ensure testing is performed in accordance with approved procedures and applicable regulations.
• Complete required Quality and Compliance training within established deadlines.
• Identify and report quality or compliance concerns and support timely corrective action.
• Directly contribute to successful product certification by ensuring that testing strategies and laboratory capabilities effectively support applicable requirements.
• Enable earlier discovery of design issues through disciplined testing, analysis, and cross-functional technical reviews.
• Enable faster and more effective problem resolution by connecting product teams with specialized laboratory expertise and objective engineering data.
• Improve product quality and reliability by converting