Equipment Technology Program Manager, Nordson Medical Position Available In Rockingham, New Hampshire

Equipment Technology Program Manager, Nordson Medical Job Employer Name:

SpiderID:

13839766

Location:

Salem, New Hampshire

Date Posted:

9/16/2024

Wage:

Negotiable

Category:

Engineering

Job Code:

REQ36800

Job Description:

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for the leadership of internally and externally-resourced cross-functional project teams and complex projects, including: initiating phase, assembling project teams, developing project plans, and controlling project execution to ensure timely completion of projects.
• Works with technical leadership to advance and facilitate the long-term vision and goals for the Technical Roadmap of Engineering Technology team.
• Collaborates with the technical leadership to build and manage high-level initiatives and projects contributing to the Technical Roadmap, identifying dependencies and correlations, and establishing priority that aligns with long-term vision and goals.
• Clearly defines and guides a communications plan to create alignment between initiatives in the Technical Roadmap for the benefit of all involved.
• Partners with technical leadership to identify groups and stakeholders across the organization and determine the best approach to involve each.
• Participates in and provides connection between decision making and roadmap dedicated engineering groups. This person identifies and acts to bridge places where there are gaps in communication, or where groups should be collaborating around roadmap needs.
• Facilitates high level program review meetings with teams contributing to the roadmap.
• Serves as a point of contact for program and initiative owners across the company outside of Engineering who need access to the status and prioritization of our technical roadmap.
• Maintains a partnership with Product Management, working together to ensure that product teams building out features and engineering teams developing technology are aware of any interconnected pieces of their roadmaps.
• Helps broadcast the goals and trajectory of Technical Roadmap work being done at various levels across the company, in a way that connects how the higher level business needs are being served by the technical priorities and decisions.
• Utilize effective project management techniques to independently execute on project deliverables. This includes managing scope, schedule, risk, and budget.
• Drives day-to-day project activity to achieve results including solving technical and other project challenges, managing resource conflicts, breaking down barriers to meet product quality, and company goals and objectives.
• Ensure all peripheral activities are planned, completed, and communicated to all stakeholders.
• Prepares for and conducts project phase gate reviews.
• Provide motivation and direction to Inspire teams to perform at their best and breed new levels of pride and ownership in doing great work on tight timelines.
• Creates and maintains dashboards to report on the progress of projects to all stakeholders and the Leadership Team.
• Provide input regarding the performance of individuals on project teams.
• Ensure projects are executed in accordance with applicable procedures and policies.
• Demonstrated application of project and program management fundamentals to complex engineering problems.
• Ability to effectively execute many projects and tasks in parallel.
• Demonstrated experience creating, maintaining and communicating schedules.
• Detail oriented with strong record-keeping and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills with ability to understand complex problems and summarize in a simple way to a wide audience.
• Remain engaged, proactive and positive in tough circumstances, owning assignments and taking full accountability for overall team success.
• Manage program costs for R D forecast and spend and monitor cost impact of change
• Prioritize the engineering team project work based on risk, resources, and payback
• Ability and willingness to travel to Nordson Medical facilities and installations, up to 10-20% Qualifications, Education and Experience Requirements
• A Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering or Science discipline is required; Master’s degree in an Engineering or Science discipline is preferred
• PMP certification or training is preferred
• Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM)
• 5+ years of experience in program or project management
• 5+ years of experience delivering cross functional and multidisciplinary projects
• 5+ years of experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior management
• 5+ years of experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams Skills and Abilities
• Capable of leading and navigating complex programs involving multiple Engineering teams. Comfortable communicating with Engineering leads of individual projects and initiatives that make up the broader Technical Roadmap.
• Adept at tactfully raising and negotiating conflicting requirements or needs between teams, and communicates needs candidly to leadership when needed in service of the roadmaps’ broader success.
• Experience managing both complex technical projects and programs. This person demonstrates the ability to balance a higher-level holistic view with dependencies between specific projects and initiatives, and has experience creating visual technical roadmaps that help others understand this view.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; excellent group facilitation and presentation skills. Able to interface with all levels of an organization, including cross-functional leadership.
• Understands methods for designing and managing a communication plan across a complex set of initiatives and multiple cross-functional groups that creates clarity, with the lowest possible administrative burden on all involved.
• Adept at translating technical strategy for communication with various audiences, both technical and non-technical.
• Able to empathetically assess the needs of stakeholders throughout the company, and to negotiate strategic plans that take these needs into consideration.
• Advanced project management certification is desirable
• Needs to be driven, committed, self-initiating, with perseverance and a sense of urgency
• Comfort in facilitating meetings and presentations
• Excellent verbal & written skills to effectively communicate at all levels and across the organization
• Experience with managing risk and developing and implementing mitigation strategies
• Outstanding organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple tasks and projects, meet deadlines, and manage to schedule
• Ability to drive/lead in a matrix structure with persuasion and influence
• Good working knowledge of Word, Excel, Microsoft Project, and PowerPoint Working Conditions and Physical Demands To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Travel Required Estimated 10-20%

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