Global Certification Labs Manager

Job Description Summary

GE HealthCare is seeking a strategic, execution oriented Global Certification Labs Manager to lead and evolve our worldwide network of multidisciplinary engineering laboratories. These labs deliver critical certification and verification services—including EMC, Safety, Materials, Environmental Stress (Thermal/Humidity, Shock, Vibration), and Reliability Testing, augmented by advanced mechanical and electrical simulation capabilities, essential to the successful design, qualification, and launch of world-class medical devices.
In this highly visible leadership role, you will set the global labs strategy, drive operational excellence, oversee infrastructure and capital investments, and ensure world class technical rigor across all global lab locations, including Waukesha, Bangalore, Beijing, and key partner sites. You will also play a pivotal role in modernizing lab operations through digitization, automation, and the thoughtful application of AI.
If you are energized by rigorous engineering qualification, building high performing global teams, accelerating product development, and shaping the future of test and simulation, this role offers a unique opportunity to make a broad and lasting impact.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Define and execute the multi-year vision and global strategy for GE HealthCare’s certification labs, aligned with enterprise priorities such as throughput acceleration, utilization optimization, and enhanced customer experience.
• Establish and sustain a unified global operating model that ensures consistent processes, technical excellence, and quality standards across all sites.
• Serve as the accountable owner for laboratory quality systems, achieving and sustaining required accreditations, including ISO/IEC 17025, across applicable services.

Technical Oversight & Functional Excellence

• Provide senior technical leadership across hardware engineering disciplines including Electrical, Mechanical, Materials, Environmental, Reliability, and the regulatory requirements needed to certify medical devices for global markets.
• Ensure robust documentation, investigation, and communication of issues identified during testing, preventing customer exposure and clearly demonstrating value to the business.
• Advance simulation-driven design and validation by strengthening integration between physical testing and predictive modeling.
• Support product field issues and quality investigations, serving as a trusted technical authority.
• Champion innovation in signal integrity, power integrity, and mechanical simulation methodologies to improve design quality and reduce validation cycle time.

Operational Performance & KPI Ownership

• Drive a strong culture of safety throughout the global organization, including regular walkthroughs and proactive identification of improvement opportunities.
• Own and continuously improve global performance metrics, including:
  • Test report generation cycle time
  • Simulation throughput and reporting lead time
  • Lab utilization across global sites
  • Customer satisfaction metrics
  • Safety performance, including OSHA-recordable incident rates
  • Financial performance, including budget adherence, Intrinsic Cost Productivity (ICP), and service chargeback execution
• Own global capital planning, including facility investments, major equipment strategy, and lifecycle management of lab assets.
• Own purchased services and material planning, including execution to budget, equipment calibration and maintenance, and deployment of contractor resources.

Capability Development & Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Lead global facility upgrades, capacity planning, and long-term infrastructure strategy to support future business needs.
• Drive digital traceability, workflow automation, and lab information systems to improve efficiency, transparency, and scalability.
• Apply AI and advanced analytics to enhance lab productivity, technical capability, and quality system effectiveness.
• Partner closely with Product Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, and Sourcing teams to ensure robust product test coverage, regulatory certification, and overall product quality.
• Provide technical leadership in design reviews, program planning, milestone checkpoints, independent testing, and problem resolution.
• Influence the development, interpretation, and application of industry and regulatory standards relevant to GE HealthCare medical devices.

People Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop a global organization of lab managers, engineers, and technicians.
• Foster a culture grounded in safety, technical excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Strengthen technical career paths and build a connected global community of practice across laboratory disciplines.
• Provide leadership and sponsorship for internal and external technical education programs and strategic academic and industry partnerships.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in design engineering, testing, verification, or certification laboratory environments.
• Demonstrated success leading multi-site or global technical organizations.
• Proven track record of driving meaningful operational KPIs and clearly communicating value-add to the business.
• Strong working knowledge of IEC 60601-1 (Safety), IEC 60601-1-2 (EMC), and ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation requirements.
• Excellent leadership, decision-making, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Desired Characteristics

• Master’s degree in Engineering or a related field.
• Experience serving on an IEC technical committee.
• Experience in highly regulated industries such as medical devices, aerospace, or automotive.
• Familiarity with model-based engineering, digital thread, or digital twin concepts.
• Experience managing capital-intensive laboratories or complex technical facilities.
• Project or program management certification (e.g., PMP).

Why Join Us?

• You will lead a globally visible organization with strong executive sponsorship, meaningful ongoing investment, and a clear mandate: build the world’s most capable and efficient healthcare engineering labs. Your work will directly enable faster innovation and help deliver life-changing technologies that improve patient outcomes across the globe.  This role is central to advancing global engineering velocity, product quality, laboratory modernization, and technical rigor at GE HealthCare. From reducing validation cycle time to accelerating simulation-driven design, your leadership will shape how next-generation healthcare technologies are developed, qualified, and delivered worldwide.

We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.