SUMMARY OF POSITION
The R&D Project Engineer will be responsible for leading cross-functional teams to develop
project scopes, objectives, and deliverables using best practices. They will execute project
plans to ensure on-time delivery and exceed quality standards in support of product
development
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Leading R&D and cross-functional project engineering and project management, developing
and executing project plans to meet or exceed quality and schedule commitments
- Develop project scopes, objectives, and deliverables using best-practice deployment in
collaboration with cross functional project team stakeholders.
- Cross-function collaboration to accelerate development of system solutions (e.g., DFM, DFS)
- Track project progress and provide regular updates to management.
- Effective engagement with customers, advisors, suppliers, partners, and other external
stakeholders
- Management of project operating expenses and CAPEX
- Serve as a subject matter expert on engineering change and design control procedures
- Performs all other duties as required to meet the company’s goals and objectives.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
- Demonstrated experience ( >2 years) project engineering, talent development planning, and
engagement with >3 technical associates
- Demonstrated experience (>2 years) leading product development projects in an ISO 9000 or
equivalent quality system environments (e.g., ISO 13485)
- Demonstrated experience (>2 years) managing multiple technical disciplines (e.g., mechanical,
electrical, and/or software) and systems
- Financial acumen to manage project, Engineering/R&D budgets, statistics, and CAPEX (>2
years)
- Effective communication skills with superiors, peers, and subordinates
- Travel up to 5% on an annual basis including customer, partner, and supplier visits, and industry
conferences
- Biomedical Technical degree (Bachelors) with a minimum of 2 years professional engineering
and product development experience
- Strongly desired: Masters level technology management degree or MBA with technical
concentration
- Ability to support multiple projects/products simultaneously.
- Full product cycle experience with electro-mechanical aspects of a system: design, develop,
test, release, production.
- Good documentation and organizational skills.
- Use of Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint) and/or similar productivity tools in
Windows PC environment to generate documents.
This position is located on-site, in Madison, CT.