Senior Process Engineer (Lifecycle Management)

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Leica Microsystems, one of Danaher’s operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where your unique viewpoint matters. By harnessing the Danaher Business System, you help turn ideas into impact—innovating at the speed of life.

The Senior Engineer, Design Transfer & Life Cycle Management (DT & LCM) is responsible for leading design transfer, life cycle engineering, and value engineering activities to successfully introduce new and transferred products into mass production while improving quality, cost, and productivity of existing products.

This position reports to the DT & LCM Manager and is part of the Life Cycle Management, R&D organization located in Singapore and will be an on-site role.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Lead design transfer and new product introduction activities, including process development, commissioning, qualification, and ramp-up to mass production with a strong focus on quality and reliability.
• Drive manufacturability, yield, and productivity improvements through design for manufacturability reviews, process parameter development, and application of lean manufacturing and standard work principles.
• Own manufacturing readiness and process documentation, including sequence plans, inspection plans, BOMs, routings, and production times, ensuring accuracy and compliance in SAP.
• Lead cross-functional quality and improvement initiatives, including FPY improvement, external quality issues, warranty and failure analysis, MRB/ECB participation, and corrective actions.
• Support continuous improvement and life cycle activities such as VAVE, process yield improvement, vendor and part qualification, and collaboration with R&D, RAQA, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (Mechatronics, Electrical/Electronics, Mechanical, Industrial, Production, or related discipline).
• Multiple years of experience in a manufacturing or production engineering environment, including exposure to design transfer or new product introduction.
• Working knowledge of jig and fixture design using Creo and/or AutoCAD.
• Experience applying structured problem-solving and process optimization methods such as FMEA, DOE, and yield improvement methodologies.
• Proficiency with manufacturing systems and tools, including SAP and Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Optics or high-precision components manufacturing.
• Warranty analysis, PDOA investigations, or external quality improvement activities.

Leica Microsystems, a Danaher operating company, offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that supports life beyond the job.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

For more information, visit www.danaher.com.