Project Manager

Prochem Engineering; Cork; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Prochem Engineering in Cork, Ireland, is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead substantial engineering initiatives in the medical device sector.

You will assemble teams, manage budgets, liaise with stakeholders, and drive projects from initiation to closure, ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery and quality.

Qualifications

• Level 8 degree in Mechanical Engineering or relevant discipline or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage significant engineering projects.
• Assemble a project team, assign responsibilities, identify resources, and develop schedules.
• Record detailed customer requirements, constraints and assumptions with stakeholders to establish deliverables.
• Estimate, monitor, and attain project budget throughout the lifecycle.
• Set expectations per the Project Plan to align stakeholders and team members.
• Identify, assess, monitor, and close project risks throughout the lifecycle.
• Manage changes to scope, schedule and costs with verification to keep the plan accurate.
• Improve team performance by leading, influencing and motivating the team.
• Measure project performance and communicate variances to all stakeholders.
• Interface with Materials Science, Design and QA to deliver a quality product on time.
• All other duties as assigned.

Skills

Project management

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Risk management

Communication

Presentations to executives

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

PM certification (PMP) or equivalent (preferred)

Tools

MS Office

MS Project

SharePoint

Visio

Job description

• A Project Manager vacancy has arisen within our clients site, within the medical device industry in Cork. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Project Engineer seeking to grow their career.

Job Requirements:

• Management of significant Engineering projects.
• Responsible for assembling a project team, assigning individual responsibilities, identifying appropriate resources needed, and developing schedules to ensure timely completion of project.
• Record detailed customer requirements, constraints, and assumptions with stakeholders in order to establish the project deliverables.
• Responsible for project budget estimation, monitoring, and attainment throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensure a common understanding by setting expectations in accordance with the Project Plan, in order to align the stakeholders and team members.
• Lead the identification, assessment, monitoring, and closure of project risks throughout the project lifecycle.
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques in order to keep the project plan accurate, updated, and reflective of authorised changes to facilitate customer acceptance.
• Responsible to improve team performance by building team cohesiveness, leading, influencing, and motivating in order to facilitate cooperation, ensure project efficiency, and boost morale.
• Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques in order to monitor the progress of the project, identify and quantify any variances, perform any required corrective actions, and communicate to all stakeholders.
• Must be able to analyse and correct complex process and/or system issues of a broad scope using independent judgment.
• Interface with Materials Science, Design and Quality Assurance departments to provide customer with a quality product in a timely manner.
• All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Level 8 Degree in Mechanical Engineering or relevant discipline or equivalent experience is required.
• Proven Project Management skills through the delivery of business-critical projects which have been delivered on time and in Budget.
• Has minimum of 5 years’ demonstrated project experience preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to oversee technical advancements.
• Ability to generate and explain detailed proposals, schedules, objectives, and other documentation accurately.
• Utilise proper software to maintain project records, such as a PM system, MS Office, MS Project, SharePoint, or Visio.
• PMP certification or equivalent is a plus.
• Excellent interpersonal communication, influencing, collaborative teamwork and negotiation skills.
• Ability to build trusting relationships with mid-level management.
• Demonstrated experience in presenting to executives.