Associate Project Manager

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Associate Project Manager

Onsite: Warsaw, Indiana

Hourly Pay: $45.00/hr W2

Enhanced benefits (medical, dental, vision) paid vacation

Job Summary

The Associate Project Manager is part of the research and testing department responsible for coordinating laboratory calibration and maintenance activities in partnership with local laboratory staff; maintaining compliance with EHS policies; evaluating laboratory instrument, software, and service providers for laboratory use; qualifying laboratory instrument and software for laboratory use; Managing testing schedules and resource assignments; Communicating testing progress with key stakeholders; Maintaining laboratory organization budget and spending; ensuring project execution to established milestone deadlines.

Job Overview

Under limited supervision, responsible for the delivery of evidence generation for products which support departmental goals and objectives. Operates with increasing latitude supporting multi-disciplined project core teams. Functions as support role to ensure that cross functional resources are assigned and held accountable for task and outcome completion. Responsible for ensuring testing and materials development projects are delivered on time and meet established goals and objectives that support the financial and competitive goals of the organization. Makes decisions affecting project budgets, alignment of resources, project execution, and customer relations.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Organize laboratory-based projects, programs, or initiatives with oversight.
• Intake test requests and assign to appropriate testing personnel based on criteria including criticality, local laboratory core capabilities, testing technical requirements.
• Schedule testing to be performed in laboratories either internally or externally.
• Maintain backend data for project planning across testing organization.
• Conduct Sprint and Scrum meetings as assigned.
• Clearly communicate assignments and expectations to laboratory team members on a regular basis and team-wide accountability.
• Assists in maintaining project budgets with components that include human resources, prototypes, suppliers, and general expenses to meet established project guidelines.
• Ensures cross-functional resources are assigned and aligned to accomplish tasks and deliverables that are part of the project plan.
• Manages timelines, milestones, tasks, and deliverables as part of project planning.
• Responsible for working with project team to identify critical path and evaluate triple constraint.
• Identifies risk and contingency plans as part of the project management role and works with stakeholders to develop project plans with incorporated risk analysis.
• Builds effective interdependent partnering relationships which result in appropriate NPD, NPI, LCM, regulatory, marketing, clinical, testing, manufacturing and prototyping resources and support.
• Responsible for ensuring personal and company compliance with all Federal, State, local and company regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Performs other duties assigned as needed.
  
  

Required Skills, Experience & Education

• Background in project management, proficiency with Smartsheet, and strong expertise in infrastructure.
• Science, Engineering, or relevant technical degree: Bachelor’s Degree with 1 to 3 years of related experience.
• Experience in compliance to FDA, MDR, etc. to design control regulations.
• Ability to recognize and lead the resolution of project issues and roadblocks.
• Experience working in a testing lab environment with working knowledge of standard test equipment (i.e., Instron, MTS, Simsol) and industry standard test methods.
• Training in either Agile, PMI, Six Sigma, or Product Development processes.
• Proficiency utilizing Project Management tools (ex. Microsoft Project, Jira, Kanban etc.).
• A successful track record of leading and working within a cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated exceptional problem-solving ability.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and complete multiple projects with varying degrees of complexity and apply project management skills which result in meeting project/program goals and objectives.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage a dynamic workload.
• Ability to effectively utilize verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Ability to effectively use negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Proficiency utilizing project lifecycle management (PLM) software.
• Proficiency using Smartsheet.
• Project Management Professional Certification (PMP).
• Ability to model and integrate the Standards of Leadership into all business practices and activities.
• Ability to build effective interdependent partnering relationships.
• Proficiency utilizing the MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Project, Teams, etc.).
  
  

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