Senior Engineering Project Manager

Hybrid Details: On-site one week per month, three consecutive days in-office, in Lawrence, MA

Duration: 4 months to start

Job Description

Purpose and Scope

Engineering Project Manager II will be responsible for leading R&D teams on development of medical devices from concept to product launch. Requires significant cross-functional coordination, excellent written and communications skills, and the ability to drive collaborative discussions and decisions with all key stakeholders.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• A seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of engineering project management, resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways.
• Leads complex R&D projects across all phases of planning, implementation, and production readiness and support.
• Creates, optimizes, and drives structured schedules and project plans. Sets and meets deadlines with quality deliverables, effectively adapting and modifying plans based on changing conditions or data.
• Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors. Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise.
• Normally receives little instruction on day-to-day work, general instructions on new assignments.
• Acts as a subject matter expert for engineering project management activities.
• Represents the R&D teams as core team member in the cross-functional program teams.
• Collaborates across all the functional areas (R&D, Marketing, QA/QC, Regulatory, Clinical, Operations, Service and others) necessary to insure successful project completion and delivery.
• Anticipates, identifies, documents, and manages key program risks; proposes and drives appropriate mitigation and contingency plans.
• Prepares project dashboards and communicates progress clearly across organizational boundaries and levels from individual contributor to senior executive.
• Plans resource requirements and negotiates Core Team resources with R&D functional managers; assist Core Team Members in negotiating extended team staffing.
• Leads teams to define and prioritize scope, objectives, and requirements.
• Assist Core Team Members in resolving extended team and functional issues.
• Builds effective relationships with core and extended team members, functional managers, senior management, and customers.
• May provide assistance to lower level staff with more complex tasks that require a higher level of understanding of functions.
• May escalate issues to supervisor/manager for resolution, as deemed necessary.
• Reviews and complies with the Code of Business Conduct and all applicable company policies and procedures, local, state, and federal laws and regulations.
• Assists with various projects as assigned by a direct supervisor.
• Other duties as assigned.

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