Engineering Program Manager - Program Mgmt,People Mgmt, Software

A Day in the Life

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

Plans, directs and implements all aspects of the company's design and development of new medical device products or software systems.

May develop, evaluate, implement and maintain technical quality assurance and control systems or reliability systems and standards pertaining to materials, techniques, or company products.

Oversees the investigation and evaluation of existing technologies.

Guides the conceptualization of new methodologies, materials, machines, processes or products.

Directs the development of new concepts from initial design to market release.

Manages feasibility studies of the design to determine if capable of functioning as intended.

Monitors documentation maintenance throughout all phases of research and development.

Organizes the coordination of activities with outside suppliers and consultants to ensure timely delivery.

Selects, develops and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the function.

You Will:

·       Lead cross functional teams including Design teams, Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain Planning, Sourcing, Labeling, Contract

      Manufacturers, and Quality through the product development process to ensure successful completion of projects and business goals. 

·       Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, and resource tracking for assigned projects. Ensure timely and effective communication to update

      Stakeholders (including multiple teams, sites and disciplines) on the progress of the project.  

·       Schedule project meetings, document meeting minutes and key decisions, and track action items  

·       Ensure alignment between design sub system teams, operations, and core team. Ensure input is incorporated early in process development and quality planning.  

·       Lead in the preparation and alignment of the official design transfer to operations when metrics support operational readiness! 

·       Build strong informal and formal communication channels to deliver information that is accurate and up to date to all stakeholders  

·       Organize and guide large numbers of distributed, cross-functional resources successfully.  

·       Function as the primary point-of-contact for key leaders and stakeholders across the organization  

·       Communicates with stakeholders, obtains stakeholder engagement to ensure the end products or processes will solve the business problems. 

·       Contribute to project prioritization decisions by providing data and analysis from current and past projects.  

·       Travel up to 25%

DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS

Experience in managing people/direct reports: Accountability for mentoring, developing and coaching staff on meeting/exceeding performance expectations and defined objectives, providing leadership to staff ensuring the prioritization of strategic and department level initiatives to include defining performance goals and targets, conducting performance reviews, and staff 1:1s to guide performance management and employee development efforts and manage toward departmental goals.

Exceptional influencing and interpersonal skills, negotiating; managing change; goal setting; planning and organizing teamwork; ability to address difficult situations; conflict resolution; resource constraint and problem solving. 

SAFe/ RTE or handling ART Experience

Lean/Six Sigma certification

Autonomy: Manages one or more small-scale, developed or mature programs with well-defined program plans and delivery methodologies.

Is accountable for overall program process, performance, and customer satisfaction.

Organizational Impact: Provides input to establishing program objectives, timelines, milestones, and budgets.

Recommends new policies and procedures that affect program management.

May have budget accountability for one or more programs or at portfolio level.

Modifies programs management processes to improve program.

Communication and Influence: Communicates and leads meetings with internal and external customers and vendors, conducts briefings to higher level management team.

Solves issues through information exchange, influence, and active persuasion without direct exercise of command to gain cooperation of other parties on program execution plans.

Leadership and Talent Management: Leads, directs, and reviews the work of a team of professionals and/or vendors who exercise latitude and independence in their assignments.