Engineering Project Manager

Position : Engineering Project Manager

Location : Franklin Lakes, NJ

Duration : 6 Months

Total Hours/week : 40.00

1st Shift

Client : Medical Devices Company

Job Category : Project Management

Level of Experience : Mid-Level

Employment Type : Contract on W2 (Need US Citizens or GC Holders or GC EAD or OPT or EAD or CPT)

Job Description:

Job Summary:

• Position will assist in the management and tracking of Sustaining Engineering projects across the entire project portfolio.
• The position will be responsible understanding the status and implications for multiple critical projects.

Job Responsibilities: (Primary Duties, Roles, and/or Authorities)

• Executes a project by leading cross functional teams individually. Examples would be product engineering design changes required to support $900M business
• Able to monitor critical multiple projects at one time and critically assess the impact of a changing situation.
• Able to clearly identify interdependencies between multiple projects and alert management.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining a good understanding of the major projects going on in the CC portfolio, with the goal of being able to communicate to leaders high level status.
• The goal would be to be able to work with project leads and make sure all communication to leadership is clear and impactful.
• Develop a strong understanding of the PMO budget and use proficiency in excel to help PMs with the tracking of the budget throughout the Fiscal Year.
• Ensure compliance to client quality procedures and quality conduct of projects, including design, data summary and interpretation, report and manuscript preparation and review adherence to applicable regulations.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree required preferably in mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering or other scientific discipline.
• Minimum of 2+ years relevant Project Management experience in highly regulated industries, preferably medical device industry.
• Minimum of 2+ years of team leadership in product design and development with progressively increasing complexity and responsibilities.
• Track record of successfully delivering results through leading high performing teams.
• Experience working with multiple regulatory agencies world-wide is a plus.
• Experience planning multiple work-streams, identifying risk and implementing action plans to optimize time lines and reduce execution risk
• Solid understanding of Design Control procedures per FDA guidance and knowhow to apply to the development process of medical devices for mass production.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Complete understanding of a wide application of project management principles, theories & concepts
• PMP certification is preferred
• Critical thinking.
• Quality mindset.
• Ability to simplify.
• Sense of urgency, ownership, and willingness to challenge the status quo.
• Demonstrate leadership, learning agility and action orientation when facing uncertainty.
• Demonstrates business acumen and working knowledge of front-end innovation process and business & market growth drivers & trends.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation and influencing skills.
• Understanding of Microsoft Project Online, Power Bi and Microsoft Office.