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The Project Manager – Filtration Quality Transformation is responsible for leading and coordinating a cross‑functional, end‑to‑end action plan to sustainably improve the quality of Filtration products—from product and process design, through manufacturing execution, to customer experience and complaint resolution.
This role acts as the single integrator and orchestrator across functions, sites, and leadership layers, ensuring clarity, prioritization, disciplined execution, and visible progress at both senior leadership level and at Gemba.
This position reports to Tony Hren, VP – Operations and is part of the Filtration business unit and will be based in one of our Cytiva sites.
What you will do
Create and own an integrated, end‑to‑end view of all Filtration quality initiatives, identifying impact, overlap, gaps, and clear priorities. whilst embedding a data‑driven quality culture and tracking mechanism.
Define what must be stopped, accelerated, or newly launched to maximise customer protection, revenue, and repeatable quality outcomes.
Build and maintain a clear, sequenced, and resourced quality master plan spanning product design, process design, and manufacturing standard work.
Lead global coordination across Quality, R&D, Product Design, Manufacturing, Operations, and senior leadership teams.
Translate senior leadership sponsorship into measurable shopfloor execution, supported by strong communication, Gemba engagement, and fact‑based updates on progress, risks, and decisions required.
Who you are
Proven leader of complex, cross‑functional programmes within manufacturing or engineered product environments.
Strong experience across quality, operations, and/or product lifecycle management.
Equally credible with senior and executive sponsors and hands‑on at Gemba with frontline teams.
Skilled in programme and portfolio management, structured problem‑solving, and root cause, containment, and prevention disciplines.
Able to influence without authority and drive action through relationships, credibility, and outcomes.
Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:
The role will require you to travel 30% of your time.
Cytiva, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.
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.
Skills Required
- Proven leadership of complex, cross-functional programs in manufacturing or engineered product environments
- Strong experience across quality, operations, and/or product lifecycle management
- Hands-on Gemba experience with frontline teams and credibility with senior/executive sponsors
- Skilled in program and portfolio management, structured problem solving, root cause analysis, containment, and prevention
- Ability to influence without authority and drive action through relationships and outcomes
- Based at a Cytiva site (on-site presence expected)
- Willingness to travel approximately 30% of the time
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What We Do
Beckman Coulter is committed to advancing healthcare for every person by applying the power of science, technology, and the passion and creativity of our teams to enhance the diagnostic laboratory’s role in improving healthcare outcomes. Our diagnostic systems are used in complex biomedical testing, and are found in hospitals, reference laboratories and physician office settings around the globe. Beckman Coulter offers a unique combination of people, processes and solutions designed to elevate the performance of clinical laboratories and healthcare networks. We do this by accelerating care with a menu that matters, bringing the benefit of automation to all, delivering greater insights through clinical informatics and unlocking hidden value through performance partnership. An operating company of Danaher Corporation since 2011, Beckman Coulter is headquartered in Brea, Calif., and has more than 11,000 global associates working diligently to make the world a healthier place.
