Technical Lead - Value Engineering

Technical Lead - Value Engineering

About the role

This is where your expertise helps people. You are a problem solver. Complex projects or unexpected challenges are just opportunities to bring your considerable abilities to use. Whether working independently or with a trusted team, you are always ready to tackle a project and work hard to find solutions.

Responsibilities

• Identify and evaluate total cost optimization opportunities across materials, components, and processes across ITP sites with specific focus on insourcing, alternate sourcing and process & product value engineering. Ensure alignment to site and partner with Manufacturing Strategy to align to designed future state.
• Perform structured should-cost, clean-sheet, and teardown analyses.
• Support category strategies with fact-based cost drivers and benchmarks.
• Facilitate cross functional Continuous Improvement, Kaizen and Cost Optimization events to generate and prioritize ideas.
• Lead a cross functional technical team through the planning and execution of projects using various engineering and scientific techniques, procedures and criteria. This includes constructing detailed, accurate schedules, driving and collaborating with a core team, and guiding technical support groups.
• Lead or support technical change execution including specification and material substitution.
• Care for sample builds, trials, and testing.
• Support change control processes, validation, and implementation (e.g., cut-in planning).
• Partner with Procurement, Quality, R&D, Operations, Strategy, and Finance among others.
• Engage suppliers on process capability, readiness, and cost transparency.
• Support dual qualification, risk mitigation, and capacity assessments.
• Lead and track initiatives end-to-end from opportunity assessment, business case development, full execution and hand over of project and savings to operations.
• Maintain documentation of assumptions, risks, and approvals.
• Escalate quality, service, regulatory, cost or timeline risks.
• Document and leverage best practices as part of the internal TCO center continuous improvement methodology.

Requirements

• Must not be allergic to Penicillin or Cephalosporin drugs.
• 5-8+ years experience with Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Materials, Plastics, Chemicals, Packaging, or Manufacturing engineering or related field.
• Proven experience delivering multi-million dollar value engineering savings.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional projects end-to-end using structured project management methods.
• Working knowledge of GMP, change control, deviation/CAPA concepts, and validation/qualification principles.
• Strong analytical capability.
• Strong communication skills and cross-functional influence skills.
• Travel required, 10-20%.

Qualifications

• Experience in alternate sourcing and supplier qualification (APQP/PPAP) in regulated manufacturing, with end‑to‑end technical and procurement leadership delivering cost savings.
• Experience translating technical changes into measurable business value, insourcing transitions and tech transfer activities.
• Experience in value engineering and design for manufacturability.
• Experience with cost modelling, should-costing or clean-sheet methodologies.
• Leverage Lean / Six Sigma certification.

Skills

• Problem Solver
• Analytical Thinker
• Data Driven
• Solution Focused & Results Oriented
• Collaborative
• Innovative

Benefits

US Benefits at Baxter (except for Puerto Rico)

• Medical and dental coverage that starts on day one.
• Insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount.
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP) with options for employee contributions and company matching.
• Flexible Spending Accounts, educational assistance programs, and time-off benefits such as paid holidays, paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service, family and medical leaves of absence, and paid parental leave.
• Commuting benefits, the Employee Discount Program, the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and childcare benefits.

Pay

The estimated base salary for this position is $112,000 - $154,000 annually.

Schedule

Full-time.