Engineering Project Manager

Formlabs•Somerville, MA

About The Position

Do you want to change how the world creates? At Formlabs, we’re building the tools that make it possible for anyone to bring their ideas to life, from cutting-edge products to life-saving medical devices. Our 3D printing technology powers innovation at more than 50,000 industry leaders worldwide, including Apple, Google, Tesla, New Balance, and NASA. Together, we’re helping everyone design, prototype, and manufacture faster than ever before. We’re a team of hands-on builders, engineers, and innovators reinventing how the world makes physical things. If you’re ready to shape the future of fabrication, come build it with us. R&D: Join a dynamic R&D team, comprising top-tier mechatronics, software and systems engineers. We’re a collaborative group driven by innovation and great product development to develop the Formlabs printing process and bring transformative products to market. Your Impact: The engineering project manager makes sure our prototyping and development process is efficient and executed firmly. At Formlabs we’re constantly iterating on our products and building new prototypes. As the engineering project manager you’ll work with the mechanical engineering team and the engineering team broadly to bring these prototypes to life and once they’re built to make sure they’re being maintained and used effectively. You’ll also work closely with the mechanical engineering team to support the complexities of developing hardware such as managing BOMs, inventory and product configurations. This is a role that benefits from energizing your peers and has high visibility as your results are our highly coveted prototype products.

Requirements

Demonstrates motivation to bring amazing products to life by pushing yourself, your peers and the development process forward
Consistent and organized to make sure we’re doing everything we can to succeed
Ready to get your hands dirty filling gaps and leading by example
Can jump between organizing data to organizing people and back during the course of a day
A working knowledge of technical documentation and the desire to keep learning in this area
Build bridges between team leads and key doers on teams to quickly solve problems and blockages

Nice To Haves

Depth in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or integration software
Data analysis and spreadsheet wizardry
Experience with PLM systems

Responsibilities

Be the glue to pull disparate teams together to hit key milestones and goals through the product development process
Manage (in conjunction with the G$ team) the Bill of Materials for our products making sure it is up to date and usable for ordering, cost analysis and useful for tracking development status.
Push ECOs through the release process and make sure they’re implemented in a controlled manner.
Develop spaces for builds including workspace, tools, shelving for inventory and finished goods
Manage inventory for prototype and integration builds including receiving parts, managing incoming quality control, stocking parts and prepping for builds.
Make sure that prototype builds happen smoothly and as quickly as possible.
Run daily standups or other methods of work tracking and motivation to make sure builds remain unblocked.
Organize and plan work.
Motivate team members.
Track progress and issues.
Communicate with stakeholders and close out issues.
Manage the configuration of our fleet of prototype printers.
Maintain an up to date inventory of prototype printers, their configuration, status and use.
Ensure that reworks and retrofits happen quickly and successfully.
Improve processes across mechanical engineering to support the smooth development of products
Broadly support the mechanical engineering team and mechanical engineering manager as project manager embedded in that team