Technical Lead - Value Engineering

Your role at Baxter

The Technical Lead – TCO Engineering is a core member of the TCO (Technical Cost Out) team and is accountable for delivering material and component cost reduction, supply resilience, and margin improvement through technical analysis, specification optimization, alternate sourcing, and cross‑functional execution. The role partners closely with Procurement, R&D, Quality, Operations, and Suppliers to identify, validate, and implement cost optimization opportunities while maintaining product performance, regulatory compliance, and supply continuity.

• TCO Opportunity Identification & Analysis: Identify and evaluate total cost optimization opportunities across materials, components, and processes across ITP sites with focus on in sourcing, 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.
• Technical Execution & Validation: Lead a cross functional technical team through planning and execution of projects using engineering techniques, procedures and criteria. Construct detailed schedules, drive collaboration, guide technical support groups.
• Lead or support technical change execution including specification and material substitution.
• Coordinate sample builds, trials, and testing.
• Support change control processes, validation, and implementation (e.g., cut‑in planning).
• Cross‑Functional & Supplier
  
  Collaboration:
  
  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.
• Performance Tracking & Governance: 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.

• 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%.
• Preferred:
  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, in sourcing transitions and tech transfer activities.
• Experience with value engineering and design for manufacturability.
• Experience with cost modelling, should‑costing or clean‑sheet methodologies.
• Lean / Six Sigma certification.
• Applicants must be authorized to work for an employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

We offer comprehensive compensation and benefits packages. Our health and well‑being benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one, as well as insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short‑term and long‑term disability, and business travel accident insurance.

Financial and retirement benefits include the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP) with options for employee contributions and company matching. Flexible Spending…