Digital Project Manager Intern Engineering - Smiths Detection - Edgewood

Smiths Group plc; United States; In loco; USD 20.664 - 48.216; Part-time

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Excellent training and career growth opportunities

Inclusive working environment

Flexible benefits to suit lifestyle

Descrizione del lavoro

Smiths Group plc. is offering an internship focused on project management within the Smiths Detection business. The role involves assisting project managers in developing tools to enhance efficiency, updating documentation, and exploring AI solutions. The ideal candidate is a degree-track undergraduate in computer science, business, or engineering, with strong communication skills and familiarity with project management software. Compensation ranges from $15.00 to $35.00 per hour, based on educational level and skill set.

Competenze

• Degree-track undergraduate students in related fields are preferred.
• Strong ability to collaborate in a matrixed environment is essential.
• Experience with project management tools and relevant software is beneficial.

Mansioni

• Learn project initiation and management processes.
• Update relevant process documents to maintain alignment.
• Create training materials for project processes.
• Investigate AI tools to improve project management efficiency.

Conoscenze

Ability to work in matrixed environment with different profession types

Platform experience with Jira

Platform experience with Confluence

Proficiency in Microsoft Office

Experience with Microsoft Project

Formazione

Degree-track undergraduate student in computer science, business, engineering

Descrizione del lavoro

Technology Programmes delivers Project Management excellence to drive the development of technology in the Americas and beyond in the Smiths Detection Business. An activity of the business area is to manage major development activities to deliver and sustain capabilities to our world-wide Customers. A key functional area to delivering these outcomes is the R&D or Engineering Function.

In order to drive efficiency, reduce costs, and assure timely delivery, it is essential for project managers to coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure appropriate effort is provided to each project. This requires robust tools to allow prioritization of projects and resource assignment based upon key metrics. This internship will focus on assisting current project managers in development and utilization of key project management tools and assisting in updating cross-funtional processes, and will identify new AI tools to help project managers in their day-to-day responsibilities.

Responsibilities

Essential functions

• Learn processes used by Smiths Detection for project initiation and management.
• Update ECR and POMP process documents to assure alignment across the documents.
• Confirm reference documents are up-to-date and aligned with the new processes.
• Create training material for ECR, POMP, and SPOE processes
• Train technology personnel on new processes using new training material.
• Create SharePoint site to house all documentation and ensure it is aligned with other COE’s SPOE pages.

Secondary/Support Duties:

• Investigate and compile a report on current AI tools including a pro/con analysis, cost estimate, and value add to the team.
• Become familiar with Microsoft Project and work with global exports to determine resources required to more efficiently utilize the software package.
• Support project controller in weekly duties.

Qualifications

Education/Training: Degree-track undergraduate student in computer science, business, engineering.

Knowledge/Skills:

• Ability to work in matrixed environment with different profession types (i.e. engineers, software developers, project managers, etc.)
• Platform experience working with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project.

Supervises: Not a supervisory Role

Benefits

We’ll help build your career, with excellent training and opportunities for career growth across the business, both locally and globally. You’ll experience an inclusive environment, with strong leadership and a focus on safety and wellbeing. You’ll have the flexibility to choose from a wide range of benefits to suit your lifestyle, offering you and your family support from a health and wellbeing, financial and lifestyle perspective.

Compensation is $15.00 - $35.00/hr and will vary depending on factors including level of school completed and type of position requirements for skills, whether technical or non‑technical.

Equal Opportunity

Smiths Detection is an affirmative action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.