Senior Engineering Project Manager

JOB SUMMARY:

The Senior Engineering Project Manager will work as a member of the Research and Development team and will be responsible to plan and execute development activities in accordance with corporate procedures, to assure the project deliverables are completed accurately, on time and within budget. Initiate, plan, schedule, direct and execute one or multiple projects at a time, including highly complex cross-functional projects.

This role is an individual contributor role working within a cross-functional team toward a common goal. This role will also be responsible for communicating project status and updates to management levels.

ESSENTIAL/PRIMARY DUTIES:

• Collaborates with functional engineering, advanced sourcing, advanced quality, manufacturing, product management, and other functions to successfully complete engineering projects that meet the project budget, project scope, project timeline, and product cost.
• Collaborates with product management on customer research to deeply understand customer needs.
• Ensures proper customer knowledge and capabilities exists on the team to satisfy customer needs.
• Makes effective decisions when presented with multiple options for how to progress the project.
• Develops and manages project plans, project strategy, resources, WBS, detailed schedule, budget, risk register, and contingency plans.
• Leads a cross-functional team in the development of a risk-based schedule.
• Collaborates with teammates to identify, prioritize, and schedule critical project milestones and deliverables.
• Coordinates project activities and teammates to ensure project goals and requirements are met.
• Leads and manages cross-functional project meetings at set cadences.
• Ensures timelines are reviewed with teammates and appropriate action items are taken and driven to closure.
• Prepares and presents project status reports, facilitate technical meetings, and design reviews.
• Manages technical and project risk within the project including adequate risk mitigation efforts and effectively issue escalation.
• Collaborates with project and functional personnel to resolve problems.
• Manages and documents scope changes from original specifications and the impact to timelines, resources, and/or project & product costs.
• Develops and maintains technical and project documentation.
• Maintains a list of key decisions and their impact that are made during the life of the project.

SECONDARY DUTIES:

• Provides functional managers with feedback and development opportunities for those participating on development teams.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality, or project management and 10 years of experience developing products and/or managing engineering projects in a highly regulated environment (medical devices, FDA regulated industry) preferred. Applicable certification preferred (PMI) but not required. Program leadership roles either as a technical lead or project manager preferred. Experience in all phases of product development from concept to launch preferred. Experience in developing products designed for manufacturability – background and/or functional knowledge in manufacturing operations preferred.

COMPETENCY and/or SKILL: 

• Excellent communication skills. Ability to express technical and program issues in a succinct and clear manner to a variety of audiences (ability to tailor the message to the audience)
• Advanced ability to influence positive outcomes to meet goals at an organizational level
• Extensive knowledge of product development process, requirements, and regulatory processes
• Highly detail oriented, organized, and organizationally knowledgeable
• Proficient in MS Office Suite of tools, including Microsoft Project
• Led multiple complex electromechanical projects within engineering or a closely related field
• Ability to manage external development resources
• Highly skilled in conflict resolution
• Multidisciplinary product development experience (understanding of electromechanical, embedded systems and software) preferred

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Provides leadership, mentoring and coaching