Associate Project Manager

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Client designs, develops, manufactures and markets orthopedics products, including knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, foot and ankle artificial joints and dental prostheses. client has operations in more than 40 countries around the world.

Job Title: Associate Project Manager
Location: Warsaw, IN



Duration: 11 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid

Job description:

Duties:

• Key overarching responsibility is to provide project management support for a subset of the Engineer Services team at Client involved in a site integration project, including coordination of day-to-day activities across functional teams. These teams including Packaging, Labeling, Design Controls, and Biocompatibility.

• Supports the definition of technical projects, including scope, objectives, key activities, required resources, and deliverables.

• Facilitates development of work breakdown structures, master schedules, and resource plans for assigned projects.

• Monitors master project plans and communicates progress, risks, constraints, resource needs, and key decisions to functional leaders and business stakeholders.

• Identifies project risks and supports development of mitigation strategies and contingency plans to protect project timelines, scope, and objectives.

• Provides guidance to teams onboarding new projects into the project-management framework.

• Develops and delivers project presentations and status updates for senior management, as required.

• Communicates project-management principles, plans, expectations, and decisions clearly to technical and business stakeholders.

• Supports education, use, and application-level assistance for project-management tools, including Microsoft Project and Portfolio Navigator, for globally managed projects.

Skills:

• What Makes You Stand Out

• Broad knowledge of project-management methodologies, tools, and practices.

• Demonstrated strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly communicate project-management concepts, plans, risks, and status to cross-functional teams and leadership.

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with business leaders, functional project leaders, and project teams.

• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, with sound judgment and a practical understanding of project issues and constraints.

• Demonstrated presentation skills, including the ability to influence and persuade stakeholders through clear, confident communication.

• Collaborative working style with the ability to establish relationships quickly across a broad range of stakeholders, build team commitment, and support achievement of project objectives.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Project and Microsoft Office applications.

Education Requirements:

• Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline or related scientific, project management, or business discipline.

• The following are not required, but will be preferred among candidates:

• Degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science, or related engineering disciplines. A Master's degree is highly preferred.

• 3-5 years of full-time engineering experience in regulated medical device industry

• Experience working with with orthopedic implants, medical software, biomaterials, antimicrobial technologies, wound management, coatings, or local drug delivery is strongly preferred.

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred, but not required.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.