Project Manager - Engineering - Vet Systems

Requisition ID:                       65185                          Title: Project Manager - Engineering - Vet Systems

 

 

 

 

 

Arthrex, Inc. is a global medical device company and a leader in new product development and medical education in orthopedics. Arthrex is actively searching for a Project Manager – Engineering to support the Vet Systems team. This individual will be responsible for managing and resolving issues related to the time, budget, and resource allocation for a given program or project. Join our talented team at a global medical device company focused on Helping Surgeons Treat Their Patients Better™.

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manages subsidiary-based and global projects/programs within the scope of the new product development.
• Develops project objectives by reviewing project proposals and business plans, conferring with senior management and key stakeholders.
• Determines project schedule by studying project plan and specifications, calculates time requirements, identifying and sequencing project elements and discreet tasks.
• Maintains project schedule by monitoring project progress, coordinating activities, and resolving risks or obstacles.
• Determines project responsibilities by identifying project phases and elements, requesting and allocating resources as necessary.
• Ensure design history file facilitation for assigned projects, adhering to Arthrex design control procedures.
• Ensure project progresses within the boundaries of the approved scope. Manage the scope of the project and guarantee scope changes are properly documented and implemented.
• Identify opportunities for improvement within the Project Management Governance and Design Control Process to improve speed to market.
• Monitor resource capacity within the New Product Development groups and cross-functional resources and communicate constraints or needs to senior management.
• Help facilitate, with interdepartmental managers, the availability, assignment, and accountability of downstream resources and technology.
• Help facilitate project, program and portfolio status to management and key stakeholders with applicable metrics and project constraints.

 

Education/Experience:           

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required. BioMedical, Electrical, or Mechanical preferred.
• 2 years relevant experience.

 

Knowledge:     

• Limited use and/or application of basic principles, theories, and concepts. Limited knowledge of industry practices and standards.

 

Skills:  

• Ability to effectively communicate project planning requirements, including task elucidation, duration, and resource requirements.
• Strong strategic thinker, excellent collaboration and communication skills, careful attention to detail.
• Ability to balance business and technical risks while remaining compliant with internal systems.
• Awareness of full life cycle development of medical devices, which includes initiation, design, development, execution, and sustaining.
• Working knowledge of medical device regulations and associated quality systems, particularly design controls and risk management.
• Manufacturing process knowledge preferred.
• Awareness orthopedic surgery principles, theories, and products preferred.
• Knowledgeable of FDA and ISO guidelines for the development of medical devices preferred.
• Strong communication skills and accountability to project deliverable timing and budgets required.
• Ability to confidently lead complex, cross functional teams independently.
• Demonstrable bias for action.
• Strong desire and proven ability to learn quickly.
• Continuously seeking ways to improve complex systems of people and process, while eliminating waste.

 

Language and Communication Skills:

• Ability to comprehend and apply language skills to the degree required to perform the job based upon the job requirements listed above. 
• Ability to verbally communicate ideas and issues effectively to other team members and management.  Ability to write and re