Senior Engineering Project Manager (Contract) (Northbrook)

Garrett Technologies, Inc. is seeking a versatile technical project manager to lead complex product development. 

The role requires leading a team of engineers in full life-cycle design and development activities for a family of products.

In this role, you will utilize your organizational and leadership skills to plan and supervise tasks for a team of 6-10 engineers and communicate project status to management and clients. 

The project manager will contribute technical expertise and leadership to tasks including embedded software engineering, electrical design, mechanical design, requirements definition, architecture, integration, and testing.

This is a long-term contract opportunity requiring on-site work at our Northbrook, IL location.

Required Qualifications: 

• BS in Engineering with 10+ years’ experience in full life-cycle product development.

• Ability to plan and manage tasks to deliver projects on schedule.

• Deep, hands-on experience in hardware and software development from technical feasibility through transfer to production.

• Experience leading the development of software utilizing structured development methodologies.

• Experience leading PCBA design.

• Expertise in utilizing project management or PLM tools, requirements management tools, and issue tracking tools (Atlassian Confluence & JIRA, MS Project experience a plus)

• Possess good written and verbal communications skills and the ability to work in a team environment along with the ability to interface effectively with offsite clients and team members.

• Willingness and ability to get into the deep technical details of a project.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• MS in Engineering.

• 3+ years’ project management experience.

• Prior experience in medical device development (IEC 62304).

• Experience with Altium Designer, SOLIDWORKS, embedded software development.

• PMP Certification.

• Experience developing medical devices in an ISO13485 quality system.

About Garrett Technologies, Inc.

Garrett Technologies is an ISO 13485-certified product development and engineering firm headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois. Founded in 2001, we have 25 years of experience developing innovative medical devices and complex electronic products for startups, established companies, and global industry leaders. Our multidisciplinary team specializes in systems, electrical and mechanical engineering, embedded software, and full life-cycle product development, from concept through design verification and transfer to manufacturing.