Program Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Associate degree in related field
• 6+ years of experience in medical device assembly design or manufacturing as a project or engineering leader
• Extensive experience with medical device contract manufacturing
• Experience managing numerous projects simultaneously using appropriate software tools (i.e. Excel or Microsoft Project) and professionally communicating project status to customers
• Knowledge of ISO 13485, and FDA regulations
• Proven interpersonal and leadership skills to manage cross-functional teams with accountability to program timelines
• Demonstrated ability to consistently achieve short and long-term business results
• Facilitate root cause analysis discussions with team members to support the identification of underlying issues and promote collaborative problem-solving
• Knowledge and experience with Lean Manufacturing preferred
• Microsoft Office proficiency (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher)
• Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to work in a manufacturing environment

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
• PMP Certification

Responsibilities

• Manage customer projects to develop and meet requirements, scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations
• Build and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external customers that encourages two-way communication
• Create a sense of urgency and leads customer programs through the organization in a timely manner
• Facilitate identification of risks to programs during both the Proposal/Quote phase as well as the Program realization phase
• Work with internal and external customers to put in place risk mitigation strategies and parallel paths as necessary
• Understand manufacturing capabilities and capacity of the organization
• Achieve a high-level understanding of manufacturing and engineering processes that relate to the medical device industry
• Facilitate quotations and proposals for company products and services in a timely fashion that put the business in a position to win new programs
• Work closely with the manufacturing engineers, quality engineers and operations teams to ensure gross margin targets are maintained or exceeded
• Lead discussions with customers and internal teams on designs, troubleshooting and finding cost effective solutions
• Maintain and update project timeliness
• Manage/facilitate the transfer to production with internal NPD/NPI teams
• Proactively communicate with customers on a routine basis and provide project plans, timelines, and milestones that meet their expectations
• Work closely with Engineering, Operations/Production, Supply Chain, Scheduling, and Quality to meet or beat customer delivery dates and On-Time-Delivery (OTD) performance
• Work with Quality to facilitate customer required audits
• Supports S&OP planning for assigned programs and customers

Benefits

• 401k retirement savings plan with a company match contribution
• onsite health clinics
• discretionary holiday bonus program (based on years of service)
• Cretex University
• 24/7 employee assistance program with access to five confidential visits with a licensed counselor at no cost
• wellness program with incentives
• employee death benefit
• employee sick and safe leave
• comprehensive medical insurance with access to virtual providers
• dental insurance (Little Partners Dental benefit covers services 100 percent for children 12 and younger when seen by a Health Partners in network provider)
• vision insurance
• a pre-tax health savings account
• healthcare and dependent care pre-tax reimbursement accounts
• paid holidays
• paid time off
• discretionary profit sharing program
• Parental Leave
• accident and critical illness benefits
• optional employee, spouse, and child life
• short and long term disability
• company provided life insurance
• tuition assistance programs