Associate Project Manager - Engineering
Arthrex · Pelican Bay, Florida, United States
Medical Equipment Manufacturing · 10,001+ employees
About the role
The Associate Project Manager oversees project timelines, budgets, and resource allocation for new product development initiatives in orthopedics. They are responsible for facilitating design history files and ensuring projects progress within approved scope and governance standards.
What they look for
Requirements
A Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Biomedical, Electrical, or Mechanical) is required for this role. Candidates should have strong communication skills, strategic thinking abilities, and a desire to learn quickly in a fast-paced medical device environment.
Benefits
Full description
Requisition ID: 67103
Title: Associate Project Manager - Engineering
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 an Associate Project Manager. This role is responsible for overseeing project timelines, budgets, and resource allocation, while proactively identifying and resolving issues across Foot, Ankle, and Trauma product initiatives. 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.
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
- Awareness orthopedic surgery principles, theories, and products preferred
- Strong communication skills and accountability to project deliverable timing and budgets required.
- 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.
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering required. BioMedical, Electrical, or Mechanical preferred
- Project Management Experience preferred.
Arthrex Benefits
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Company-Provided Life Insurance
- Voluntary Life Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Supplemental Insurance Plans (Accident, Cancer, Hospital, Critical Illness)
- Matching 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Annual Bonus
- Wellness Incentive Program
- Free Onsite Medical Clinics
- Free Onsite Lunch
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- Trip of a Lifetime
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Time Off
- Volunteer PTO
- Employee Assistance Provider (EAP)
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
