Senior Project Engineering Manager - Control Systems - Medical Device

The Project Engineering Manager (PEM) position in the Control Systems business that requires expertise in project management and executing for new product development in the medical device field.

The Control Systems group is a start-up business inside an established medical device development organization.

The PEM's primary responsibility is to lead the assigned technical team in meeting its objectives for design, schedule, program cost and product cost.

Other responsibilities for this position include creation of plans and schedules, and the tactical execution of the engineering content for new product development.

The incumbent will perform management activities in accordance with standard practices and policies.

They will also provide presentations to convey program overview, status, and risks program to colleagues, management and customers.

Responsibilities:


* Decompose project requirements to ensure that all project work is estimated and scheduled


* Develop and maintain project plans for the Control Systems business


* Determine the applicable resources required to complete a specific task in a project plan including internal resources, external resources at either a supplier/contractor or another Elbit company


* Establish timelines, budgets/estimates and secure support/buy-in from management


* Work with a diverse team of engineers and facilitate the communication and interaction amongst the functional representatives


* Identify cross functional members to assure proper engineering discipline representation on a task


* Collaborate with customer counterparts and team members on projects where applicable


* Identify roadblocks and bottlenecks to project execution and determine a course of action to eliminate or avoid them


* Report project health using standard metrics, and determine if the project is on time


* Develop and implement recovery plans for off schedule and unanticipated events


* Communicate with the engineering resources to ensure that specific tasks assigned to them are progressing at the required completion rate


* Escalate engineering issues to the appropriate level of management for which the engineering team cannot reach consensus.


* Maintain action item lists


* Conduct engineering project reviews as required; present detailed plan status to senior management as required


* Represent engineering project execution issues in stakeholder or customer discussions

Required Qualifications:


* Bachelor's degree in engineering (BS EE or SW is preferred) with at least 5 years of experience to include project management or team lead roles


* Requires a working knowledge of engineering processes related to systems, electrical, mechanical or software engineering, preferably in the medical device industry


* Demonstrated experience scheduling and completing variance analysis of moderately complex programs, preferably for various phases of program life cyc...