Engineering Excellence Lead

Job description

At Resmed, we're investing in a significant multi-year transformation across our manufacturing facilities in Singapore and Malaysia, creating new opportunities to elevate how we operate, innovate, and deliver for patients around the world. As our Engineering Lead, Manufacturing Excellence Program (MEP), you will play a critical role in ensuring the right engineering capabilities, standards, and solutions are deployed across a dynamic transformation program.

Working closely with value streams, engineering teams, and senior stakeholders, you'll provide technical leadership, drive operational excellence, and help deliver scalable, sustainable outcomes that strengthen Resmed's competitive advantage for years to come.

Key Responsibilities

Lead and coordinate engineering requirements across multiple value streams, ensuring the right expertise is deployed at the right time. Provide technical direction and align engineering priorities to deliver transformative and globally scalable solutions. Partner with value stream owners and cross-functional stakeholders to identify improvement opportunities and define future-state operating models. Drive operational excellence initiatives using Lean, Six Sigma, structured problem-solving, change management, and program governance practices.

Champion the adoption of digital tools, manufacturing systems, automation, process standardisation, and data-driven decision making. Establish performance metrics, governance frameworks, and benefits tracking to measure transformation success and sustain outcomes. Ensure initiatives support medical device manufacturing requirements, including quality systems, validation, process control, traceability, and regulatory expectations.

Influence senior leaders and key stakeholders to build alignment, remove barriers, and accelerate progress across complex programs. Develop transformation capability within engineering and operations teams through coaching, facilitation, and knowledge sharing. Manage interdependencies, risks, and priorities to ensure successful delivery across a fast-paced transformation environment.

Experience and Qualifications

Proven background leading transformation initiatives within manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, operations, or other regulated environments. Engineering leadership capability with success guiding technical teams and delivering results through others. Demonstrated achievements improving productivity, quality, cost, delivery, safety, or organizational effectiveness through cross-functional change programs. Knowledge of medical device manufacturing or highly regulated industries, including quality management systems, validation requirements, process controls, documentation, and compliance.

Understanding of operational excellence, Lean manufacturing, continuous improvement, change management, and program management methodologies. Ability to lead complex initiatives from concept through implementation and long-term sustainment. Data-driven approach to identifying opportunities, prioritizing initiatives, tracking benefits, and supporting executive decision-making. Tertiary qualification in Engineering, Operations, Business, Supply Chain, or a related discipline.

Preferred Background

Postgraduate qualification in a relevant field. Lean, Six Sigma, or change management certification. Exposure to large-scale manufacturing transformation programs across multiple sites.

Key Capabilities

Strategic transformation leadership: Able to translate business strategy into clear transformation priorities, practical execution plans, and measurable outcomes.

Operational and engineering acumen

Understands engineering systems, manufacturing processes, operational performance drivers, and the practical realities of delivering change in complex environments.

Engineering leadership

Provides clear technical direction, builds engineering capability, makes sound trade-off decisions, and creates alignment across engineering teams and stakeholders.

Influencing and stakeholder management

Builds alignment across senior leaders, functional teams, and delivery groups; communicates effectively across technical and non-technical audiences. Why Join Resmed At Resmed, our work has a direct impact on people's lives. You'll join a purpose-driven organisation committed to innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. This is an opportunity to play a highly visible leadership role in a major manufacturing transformation program, helping shape the future of our operations while developing the capabilities, systems, and ways of working that will drive long-term success.

If you're motivated by meaningful change, complex challenges, and the opportunity to lead transformation at scale, we'd love to hear from you. Joining us is more than saying “yes” to making the world a healthier place. It’s discovering a career that’s challenging, supportive and inspiring. Where a culture driven by excellence helps you not only meet your goals, but also create new ones. We focus on creating a diverse and inclusive culture, encouraging individual expression in the workplace and thrive on the innovative ideas this generates.

If this sounds like the workplace for you, apply now! We commit to respond to every applicant.