Senior Project Manager Operations/Engineering

Now you have the opportunity to join Sysmex Astrego, an innovative and rapidly growing in vitro diagnostics company, in the recruitment of our next Senior Project Manager – Operations/Engineering.

You will join a collaborative, fast‑moving, and innovation‑driven culture where scientific rigor meets entrepreneurial energy. We are a close-knit team of around 80 colleagues working together at our site in Ultuna, Uppsala. In our employee surveys, we see a high level of engagement and a strong sense of pride in our product.

This is a high‑impact role for a hands‑on project leader who wants to shape how cutting‑edge diagnostic products are manufactured at scale — enabling reliable, efficient, and global production capabilities.

To succeed, you bring solid experience from Operations, Engineering, or Manufacturing and are confident driving automation, scale‑up, and process‑optimization initiatives. You navigate complex, cross‑functional, and international environments with ease, balancing strategic thinking with practical execution. Working closely with Production, Engineering, QA/RA, Supply Chain, R&D, and external partners, you create structure, ensure clarity, and proactively resolve challenges to secure both robustness and efficiency in production.

As Senior Project Manager – Operations/Engineering, you will lead some of the company’s most business‑critical initiatives, including production automation, industrial scale‑up, and implementation of new equipment and technologies. You will drive projects from concept through implementation, ensuring sustainable, compliant, and cost‑effective manufacturing processes that support Sysmex Astrego’s global growth. You will report to the Head of PMO and be based in Uppsala, where on‑site collaboration is key to effective project execution and team alignment.

Sysmex Astrego AB was founded as Astrego Diagnostics AB in 2017, based on 10 years of basic research at Uppsala University, with the vision of developing diagnostic products to support the global fight against antibiotic resistance. In 2022, the company was acquired by Sysmex Corporation to bring its products to the global market.

Sysmex Corporation is a global diagnostics company headquartered in Kobe, Japan, with more than 9,200 employees. Sysmex has delivered high‑quality healthcare products for over 50 years, focusing on medical analytical devices and IT solutions for the laboratory sector worldwide — particularly in hematology, coagulation, and urinalysis.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead engineering and Operations projects from concept through implementation, ensuring efficient and sustainable production processes.
• Build and maintain project plans, budgets, timelines, and deliverables using established project‑management methodologies.
• Drive and coordinate cross‑functional teams across Production, Engineering, QA/RA, Supply Chain, R&D, and external partners.
• Ensure compliance with ISO 13485, GMP, and other relevant regulatory and quality requirements.
• Lead automation initiatives, scale‑up activities, and process‑improvement efforts to increase capacity and robustness.
• Identify and mitigate project risks; report progress, issues, and decisions to management and steering committees.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of project models, governance, and tools.
• Manage both new production‑equipment implementations and lifecycle improvements to support reliable, scalable operations.
  
  

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Biotechnology, or similar.
• Extensive project‑management experience in Operations, Engineering, or Manufacturing, ideally in a regulated industry (IVD, MedTech, Pharma).
• Proven track record of leading complex automation, scale‑up, and process‑optimization projects.
• Experience managing external suppliers and partners, including negotiation, performance oversight, and ensuring delivery to quality, time, and cost targets.
• Hands‑on experience working under ISO 13485 and/or GMP.
• Strong cross‑functional leadership experience in international settings.
• Solid command of project‑management methodologies such as Stage‑Gate, PMP, or Prince2.
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and spoken.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CAPEX projects and new production‑equipment implementation.
• Knowledge of diagnostic or medical‑device manufacturing processes.
• Experience in global corporate or matrix organizations.
• Ability to combine strategic leadership with hands‑on involvement.
• Swedish language skills are an advantage.
  
  

For this recruitment, we are working in close collaboration with Haeger & Carlsson Executive Search & Interim.