Strategic Innovation Project Manager

Belimo; Danbury (CT); On-site; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus 15%

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Belimo seeks a Project Manager, Innovation in Danbury, CT to steer cross-functional projects with structured planning, governance adherence, and data integrity across systems. You will drive risk, issue, and change management and prepare decision-ready materials for leadership.

Collaborating with Domains, Production and Quality, you’ll enable fact-based discussions, manage dependencies, and promote continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Engineering.
• 5+ years leading interdisciplinary development projects in mechatronics.
• Basic mechanical design and engineering principles.
• PM certification is an advantage.
• Proficiency with project management tools and methods.
• Coordination of cross-functional teams and collaboration with Domains, Production, Quality, etc.
• Strong understanding of business economic correlations.
• Willingness to learn and structured, detail-oriented working style.
• Team-oriented, proactive attitude with strong English communication.

Responsibilities

• Plan, measure, monitor, and report on project progress, resource availability, scope, budget, risks, and deliverables.
• Track dependencies in close collaboration with all lead roles within a project team.
• Identify deviations from project plans and ensure timely resolution or escalation.
• Ensure all project team members adhere to defined governance, processes, methodologies, and required deliverables.
• Apply project management tools, methodologies, and templates correctly and consistently.
• Ensure completeness and quality of project data in all relevant systems and templates.
• Ensure decision ready deliverables for gate and project reviews are properly planned and executed on time.
• Maintain transparency on readiness, gaps, and required actions.
• Lead risk management, ensuring systematic identification, assessment, mitigation, and documentation.
• Execute and enforce structured change management, ensuring required approvals and impact assessment.
• Maintain transparency on risks, issues, and change impacts.
• Facilitate structured project work and efficient cross-functional interactions.
• Enable fact-based discussions, clarify open points, and drive toward aligned outcomes.
• Demand and enforce cross-functional alignment and structured stakeholder coordination.
• Build strong, trust-based working relationships with all domains.
• Coordinate and align cross-functional dependencies and priorities.
• Ensure smooth communication flows across the organization.
• Prepare fact-based status, risk and progress inputs enabling timely, well-founded decision-making across the project.
• Provide regular and ad-hoc inputs to the business line to support execution-related steering decisions.
• Prepare decision materials, scenario analyses, and provide fact-based recommendations for steering bodies.
• Consolidate status, risks, progress, and maturity for leadership.

Skills

Project leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

English communication

German language

Structured problem solving

Change management

Risk management

Self-organization

Negotiation

Motivation and leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering or Industrial Engineering

Tools

Project management tools

Job description

Belimo seeks a Project Manager, Innovation in Danbury, CT to steer cross-functional projects with structured planning, governance adherence, and data integrity across systems. You will drive risk, issue, and change management and prepare decision-ready materials for leadership.

Collaborating with Domains, Production and Quality, you’ll enable fact-based discussions, manage dependencies, and promote continuous improvement.