Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Client designs, develops, manufactures and markets orthopedics products, including knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, foot and ankle artificial joints and dental prostheses. client has operations in more than 40 countries around the world.
Job Title: Associate Project Manager
Location: Warsaw, IN
Duration: 11 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Location: Warsaw, IN
Duration: 11 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Job description:
Duties:
- Key overarching responsibility is to provide project management support for a subset of the Engineer Services team at Client involved in a site integration project, including coordination of day-to-day activities across functional teams. These teams including Packaging, Labeling, Design Controls, and Biocompatibility.
- Supports the definition of technical projects, including scope, objectives, key activities, required resources, and deliverables.
- Facilitates development of work breakdown structures, master schedules, and resource plans for assigned projects.
- Monitors master project plans and communicates progress, risks, constraints, resource needs, and key decisions to functional leaders and business stakeholders.
- Identifies project risks and supports development of mitigation strategies and contingency plans to protect project timelines, scope, and objectives.
- Provides guidance to teams onboarding new projects into the project-management framework.
- Develops and delivers project presentations and status updates for senior management, as required.
- Communicates project-management principles, plans, expectations, and decisions clearly to technical and business stakeholders.
- Supports education, use, and application-level assistance for project-management tools, including Microsoft Project and Portfolio Navigator, for globally managed projects.
Skills:
- What Makes You Stand Out
- Broad knowledge of project-management methodologies, tools, and practices.
- Demonstrated strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly communicate project-management concepts, plans, risks, and status to cross-functional teams and leadership.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with business leaders, functional project leaders, and project teams.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, with sound judgment and a practical understanding of project issues and constraints.
- Demonstrated presentation skills, including the ability to influence and persuade stakeholders through clear, confident communication.
- Collaborative working style with the ability to establish relationships quickly across a broad range of stakeholders, build team commitment, and support achievement of project objectives.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Project and Microsoft Office applications.
Education Requirements:
- Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline or related scientific, project management, or business discipline.
- The following are not required, but will be preferred among candidates:
- Degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science, or related engineering disciplines. A Master's degree is highly preferred.
- 3-5 years of full-time engineering experience in regulated medical device industry
- Experience working with with orthopedic implants, medical software, biomaterials, antimicrobial technologies, wound management, coatings, or local drug delivery is strongly preferred.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred, but not required.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Warsaw, IN |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $45 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
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