Senior Product Engineer

Neogen Corporation•Lansing, MI

22h•Onsite

About The Position

Bring your microbiology expertise and technical leadership to a Product Engineering team responsible for the performance, quality, and continuity of commercialized food safety and microbiology products. In this onsite role, you will lead complex product and process work, own critical design and supply specifications, guide cross-functional technical decisions, strengthen lifecycle management, and mentor others while helping build future capability.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Microbiology, Biological Sciences, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, or a related scientific discipline and five or more years of relevant technical experience. A Master's degree in a related scientific discipline with one or more years of relevant applied experience, or a PhD in a related scientific discipline, may be considered equivalent based on demonstrated technical capability and experience.
Hands-on experience applying microbiological principles to products, processes, manufacturing operations, or laboratory systems.
Experience independently designing experiments, interpreting complex data, and making technical recommendations.
Experience leading technical projects, investigations, or cross-functional workstreams.
Experience defining, maintaining, or technically supporting product, material, component, or supply specifications.

Nice To Haves

Experience with food safety microbiology, diagnostic products, culture-based methods, or regulated life science products.
Experience supporting commercialized products and regulated manufacturing operations.
Experience with Design Specification Records, design control, product lifecycle management, change control, verification, validation, material qualification, manufacturing transfers, or commercialization.
Experience with Design of Experiments, statistical analysis, trend analysis, process capability tools, and risk-based decision making.
Lean Six Sigma certification or demonstrated experience leading continuous improvement initiatives using structured problem-solving methodologies.

Responsibilities

Lead complex product and process improvement projects for assigned microbiology product lines.
Independently define experimental strategies and lead studies supporting product changes, investigations, verification activities, and lifecycle decisions.
Serve as a trusted subject matter expert for products, microbiological methods, manufacturing processes, and related technologies.
Own and maintain Design Specification Records for assigned product lines, ensuring product requirements and design decisions are supported by sound technical evidence.
Define and maintain specifications for raw materials, components, supplies, and other product inputs based on product requirements, data, risk, and manufacturing and supplier capability.
Assess the impact of material, supplier, and specification changes and define the technical studies needed to support qualification and implementation.
Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis and drive sustainable solutions.
Guide cross-functional teams through change management, material qualifications, manufacturing transfers, continuity-of-supply initiatives, and product refreshes.
Use scientific, statistical, and risk-based methods to evaluate data and make technical recommendations.
Identify future improvement and capability-building opportunities.
Mentor engineers, technicians, and technical partners.
Champion a Lean Six Sigma-oriented continuous improvement culture by leading data-driven improvements in quality, service, cost, process capability, and team effectiveness.