Full-Time
Associate Director
Engineering Program Delivery
Updated on 9/11/2026
Becton Dickinson
10,001+ employees
Global medical devices and diagnostics provider
No salary listed
No H1B Sponsorship
Warwick, RI, USA
In Person
Travel up to 30% domestically and internationally is required.
Bachelor's, Master's, MBA
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- A bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, or a related technical discipline is required.
- At least 10 years of experience in engineering, manufacturing, industrialization, program management, product development, or technical operations within a large, matrixed organization is required.
- Proven success leading end-to-end new product introduction, manufacturing transfer, and/or large capital investment projects is required.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional engineering teams and influence stakeholders without direct authority is required.
- Strong knowledge of product development processes, manufacturing operations, equipment design, validation, and industrialization methodologies is required.
- Experience managing complex project portfolios involving multiple stakeholders, sites, and business functions is required.
- Strong business acumen is required to balance technical, operational, financial, and strategic priorities.
- Executive presence and strong communication, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills are required.
- Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States.
- Lead end-to-end industrialization projects from concept development through design transfer, equipment procurement, installation, qualification, validation, launch, and operational handoff.
- Serve as the primary point of accountability and escalation for assigned projects.
- Ensure project delivery meets scope, schedule, cost, quality, safety, and performance objectives.
- Partner with Business Units, Research and Development, Operations, Quality, and Manufacturing teams to translate product innovation into robust, scalable, and manufacturable solutions.
- Lead cross-functional teams through all phases of project execution, ensuring alignment, accountability, and timely decision-making.
- Operate within enterprise project governance and stage-gate processes.
- Serve as the single point of contact for industrialization activities within the assigned business area.
- Coordinate engineering resources across process engineering, equipment engineering, manufacturing, launch teams, and engineering services.
- Align functional leaders to ensure appropriate technical expertise, capacity, and resources are deployed throughout project execution.
- Foster partnerships with plant leadership to ensure manufacturing readiness and successful implementation of new technologies.
- Represent engineering project execution in leadership reviews, governance forums, and project update meetings.
- Drive collaboration across multiple sites, functions, and external partners to achieve project objectives.
- Influence and align stakeholders to support project priorities, resource allocation, and delivery objectives.
- Ensure manufacturing sites are prepared to support new product launches and capital equipment deployments.
- Oversee equipment and process readiness, validation planning and execution, documentation completion, training and operational readiness activities, and manufacturing handoff and sustainment planning.
- Champion Design for Manufacturability, standardization, and scalability principles throughout project development.
- Lead vertical startup and ramp-up activities to achieve operational performance targets before handoff to operations.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory, quality, environmental, and safety standards.
- Develop and manage project roadmaps, timelines, budgets, and resource plans.
- Monitor project performance through key performance indicators, dashboards, and performance management systems.
- Establish and maintain project charters, risk management plans, formal change control processes, gate review readiness, and stakeholder communication plans.
- Manage capital and operating expenditures associated with assigned projects.
- Lead project issue resolution and escalation activities to maintain project momentum and minimize risk.
- Communicate project status, risks, and mitigation plans to leadership and key stakeholders.
- Apply industry best practices in program management, risk management, and project execution.
- Lead and support continuous improvement initiatives to reduce project execution risk, improve speed, predictability and cost performance, strengthen cross-functional integration, and enhance industrialization effectiveness.
- Conduct post-launch reviews, lessons learned sessions, and implementation assessments to improve future project delivery.
- Drive organizational learning through adoption of best practices, standard work, and scalable project delivery methodologies.
- Indirectly lead multidisciplinary engineering teams across multiple functional areas.
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Provide coaching, mentorship, and development opportunities for technical talent supporting project execution.
- Build partnerships across engineering, operations, quality, and business teams to accelerate decision-making and execution.
- Establish clear project execution plans, expectations, and accountability structures to ensure successful outcomes.
- An advanced degree, such as a Master’s degree or Master of Business Administration, is preferred.
- Experience within the medical device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or other highly regulated industries is preferred.
- Experience leading manufacturing modernization, automation, capacity expansion, or operational transformation initiatives is preferred.
- Program management certifications such as Project Management Professional, Project Management Institute, Agile, Scrum, or equivalent are preferred.
- Lean Manufacturing and/or Six Sigma certifications are preferred.
- Experience navigating regulated product development and manufacturing environments is preferred.
BD is a global medical technology company serving hospitals, labs, and healthcare providers with products across BD Medical, Life Sciences, and Interventional. Its offerings include medication management and delivery devices, safe specimen collection and transport systems, and minimally invasive surgical instruments. Its products help safe medication administration, preserve specimen integrity for diagnostics, and enable less-invasive procedures, saving time and improving outcomes. BD differentiates itself with a broad end-to-end portfolio, global reach, and focus on quality, safety, and service to support care across regions; its goal is to improve patient outcomes, lower costs, and increase efficiency in care environments.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Franklin Lakes, New Jersey
Founded
1961
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- BD’s August 6, 2026 quarter delivered $5.0 billion revenue and $3.23 adjusted EPS.
- Management raised 2026 guidance after foreign-exchange-neutral growth beat expectations in Q3.
- Phasix enrollment finished August 13, 2026, strengthening BD’s hernia-prevention expansion path.
What critics are saying
- FDA classified BD’s intraosseous recall Class I on August 17, 2026.
- The recall lists four deaths, 45 serious injuries, and 75 complaints through July 22, 2026.
- Bard mesh litigation still haunts BD; another quality failure could trigger enterprise-wide trust collapse.
What makes Becton Dickinson unique
- BD’s February 9, 2026 Waters spin-off left a pure-play medtech portfolio.
- BD’s Vystra pen platform anchors GLP-1 and biologic delivery partnerships like EMS Brazil.
- BD’s interventional and surgery franchises sell mission-critical devices into hospital emergency workflows.
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↑ 9%Becton, Dickinson and Company shares have gained 19.6% over the past year, slightly trailing the S&P 500's 20.4% rise. However, in 2026 year-to-date, the stock has outperformed with a 20.2% gain versus the index's 13.7% advance. The medical technology company, valued at $50.5 billion by market cap, manufactures medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment, and diagnostic products. It has outpaced the iShares U.S. Medical Devices ETF, which declined 9.5% over the past year. BDX's shares rose 3.8% on 6 August after reporting third-quarter results. Adjusted earnings per share of $3.23 exceeded analyst expectations of $3.14, whilst revenue of $5 billion surpassed the $4.9 billion forecast. Among 16 analysts covering the stock, the consensus rating is "Moderate Buy", comprising seven "Strong Buy" ratings and nine "Holds".
BD has appointed Gary Sorsher as executive vice president and chief quality officer, effective 8 September. Sorsher brings over 30 years of experience in quality leadership at medical technology companies, most recently serving as chief quality officer at Edwards Lifesciences. The appointment follows the announcement that Jeffrey Silvestri, senior vice president and global head of quality, will retire in October after more than 25 years with BD. Silvestri joined the company in 1998 and has been instrumental in strengthening BD's quality foundation. Tom Polen, BD's chairman, CEO and president, emphasised that quality is central to earning trust with customers and patients. He expressed confidence in Sorsher's ability to advance quality excellence across the organisation.
BD fully enrolls trial of resorbable mesh for hernia prevention. BD called completing enrollment in the study "a significant milestone in its advanced tissue regeneration strategy and expansion efforts." Published Aug. 13, 2026 Dive brief: * BD said Wednesday it has completed enrollment in a clinical trial of resorbable mesh for preventing incisional hernias after open abdominal surgery. * Investigators enrolled 477 patients across 32 sites in the U.S. and Europe to compare the effect of BD's Phasix mesh and primary suture closure on the rate of incisional hernias. * BD will follow patients through the trial's primary endpoint at 24 months, beyond which it expects to use the data to seek Food and Drug Administration authorization for the indication. Dive insight: Incisional hernia is a serious and relatively common postoperative complication of elective abdominal surgeries where a large incision is made through the abdominal wall. BD's Phasix is a resorbable mesh. CR Bard, which BD bought for $24 billion in 2017, received FDA clearance in 2015 for Phasix in settings including hernia repair. Later, long-term data on the device confirmed the absence of mesh complications such as pain and infection. BD has faced lawsuits over adverse events allegedly linked to Bard meshes made from other materials. By completing enrollment in its PREVENT trial, BD took a step toward expanding the Phasix label to cover the prophylactic use of the device in patients undergoing elective open midline laparotomy surgery. Evaluating Phasix in hernia prevention builds on "decades of innovation in abdominal wall surgery" and will generate evidence that could "help broaden the role of regenerative technologies for patients at risk of post-surgical complications," Rian Seger, worldwide president of surgery at BD, said in a statement. BD called completion of enrollment in the clinical trial "a significant milestone in its advanced tissue regeneration strategy and expansion efforts." Last week, the company reported double-digit growth in sales of its infection prevention and advanced tissue regeneration products in the third quarter of its financial year. Discussing tissue regeneration on BD's third-quarter earnings call, CEO Thomas Polen said the company expects "strong growth going forward." Polen supported the expectations by highlighting clinical trials that the company is running to bring its biomaterial "into new indications to continue to expand our presence in those spaces."
Becton Dickinson reported third-quarter fiscal 2026 sales of $4,983 million, whilst net income fell to $377 million. The medical technology company modestly raised its full-year outlook for low single-digit revenue growth. BD highlighted momentum in biologic drug delivery and GLP-1 partnerships, including a new semaglutide pen collaboration with EMS in Brazil. The company's Vystra Injection Pen platform is gaining traction in chronic disease treatment. FX-neutral revenue grew faster than expected, leading management to nudge guidance higher. However, the sharp drop in year-to-date net income and recent one-off loss raise questions about earnings quality. The company maintained its $4.20 annual dividend. Shares rose 6.8% following the results, though some analysts suggest the stock remains undervalued by approximately 25%.
BD reported third quarter fiscal 2026 revenue of $5.0 billion, up 5.4% as reported and 4.4% on a foreign exchange-neutral basis. GAAP diluted earnings per share from continuing operations reached $1.64, whilst adjusted diluted EPS came in at $3.23. Year-to-date cash from continuing operations increased 33.3% to $2.1 billion. Free cash flow rose 44.6% to $1.7 billion. The medical technology company updated its full-year guidance, expecting revenue growth towards the high end of its range whilst raising the midpoint of its adjusted diluted EPS guidance. The results represent BD's first full quarter following the 9 February 2026 spin-off of its Biosciences and Diagnostic Solutions business and its combination with Waters Corporation.