Project Leader I

The Engineering Project Leader works with people around the world to support our global installed product base.

In this role you will lead several Product Design Change initiatives for Vantives global Acute, PD and HD Therapies products.

You will be expected to manage Design Change Projects from proposed initiative inception to final production implementation and market rollout.

Job Responsibilities:

• Create the project plans including objective, scope, execution path, assumption, risk, schedule and resource needs
• Deploy metric-based project tracking
• Facilitate regular team meetings to set and manage work assignments
• Communicate project progress to global stakeholders
• Identify, mitigate, and manage project and technical risks following risk management processes
• Lead and participate in the development of project strategies and reliable technical solutions that meet requirements and inputs
• Hold responsibility for design control documentation
• Execute engineering change control efforts per established processes and manage the deliverables per QMS requirements
• Coordinate design change implementation in production and into markets

Qualifications & Skills

• Previous Sustaining Engineering and Project Management experience with demonstrated success leading multi-site activities in the medical products industry
• Strong product development background having led the development or participated in at least one complete medical device product development project end to end, i.e. from concept to production launch
• Participated in at least one electromechanical design project
• Strong Communication Skills
• Enthusiastic, must be self-driven
• Metric Focused, understands incremental delivery and the value of metrics

Education/ Experience:

• Strong engineering background with at least a technical bachelors degree (Electrical, Mechanical or Systems Engineering).
• Minimum of 2 of years’ experience in project or program management, and 3 years of experience in medical devices
• Hands-on experience using Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Tools

  Project Management knowledge including Agile methodologies, preferably with current certificationRole & responsibilities

Preferred candidate profile