Senior Mechanical Engineer

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead mechanical sustaining engineering activities for current instruments managing lifecycle design updates and continuous improvement initiatives ensuring all changes are rigorously verified and seamlessly transferred to production and scaled appropriately.

• Scope and manage technical partnerships with specialist suppliers acting as the primary engineering lead for supplier evaluation design transfer and quality verification.

• Collaborate closely with internal optical physicists and electronics engineers to ensure mechanical designs seamlessly support sensitive optical alignments vibrational stiffness tolerance stack-ups and thermal stability.

• Support quality initiatives within our regulated environment leading mechanical root-cause investigations and implementing corrective and preventive actions to ensure ongoing product reliability and manufacturing excellence.

• Provide technical guidance and DFM input for future instrument developments ensuring manufacturability serviceability and cost-efficiency are designed into the architecture from the start.

• Design develop and test precision mechanical opto-mechanical and electro-mechanical systems using SolidWorks.

Knowledge and Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering (or a related discipline) with 610 years of relevant experience Masters degree with 48 years of relevant experience or PhD with 25 years of relevant experience.

• Strong track record of applying Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFM/DFA) principles to transition complex instrument designs into stable scalable production with experience leading engineering risk assessments (e.g. dFMEAs).

• Experience operating within a regulated environment or controlled Quality Management System (e.g. ISO 13485) with proficiency in engineering change control root-cause investigations and design verification.

• Deep proficiency with CAD (ideally SolidWorks) for 3D mechanical design and engineering drawings.

• Advanced working knowledge of dimensional tolerancing GD&T and tolerance stack-up analysis.

• Strong technical communication and collaboration skills with the ability to translate complex optical requirements into practical mechanical and manufacturing realities.

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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 Scientistsstanding 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 1800 employees globally most with scientific or engineering degrees STEMCELL is proud to be the largest biotechnology employer inCanada.

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 Canadas 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.

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