Job Description
Job Title: Project Manager, Engineering
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Employment Type: 18-Month W2 Contract
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Employment Type: 18-Month W2 Contract
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager, Engineering to lead cross-functional technical initiatives and oversee project lifecycles. Operating as an individual contributor, you will apply professional engineering mastery and technical judgment to prioritize tasks, allocate resources, and ensure project deliverables align with scope, budget, and timeline expectations.
This role requires an independent practitioner who works under minimal supervision, combining specialized engineering principles with analytical decision-making to minimize operational risk and resolve complex technical challenges.
Key Responsibilities
- Project Leadership & Delivery: Lead engineering projects from inception to completion. Monitor progress and performance against the project plan, proactively identifying operational bottlenecks and resolving issues to prevent delays.
- Resource & Task Prioritization: Prioritize tasks and strategically assign engineering team members to optimize resource utilization and ensure project milestones are met on schedule.
- Scope & Budget Authority: Evaluate, analyze, and authorize scope, budget, or timeline changes that impact overall project deliverables and organizational objectives.
- Vendor & Contractor Management: Manage relationships with external contractors, engineering service providers, and vendors to ensure deliverables meet quality standards and performance agreements.
- Evaluative Judgment & Problem-Solving: Leverage formal technical knowledge and work experience to analyze factual data, interpret complex engineering issues, and implement sound solutions.
Minimum Qualifications
- Education: Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science, or a closely related technical discipline.
- Experience: Demonstrated professional mastery in applying technical engineering principles within a structured project management framework, built upon relevant work experience.
- Role Competencies:
- Proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Strong analytical skills and high attention to detail for making critical evaluative decisions based on project data.
- Excellent cross-functional leadership, risk mitigation, and operational problem-solving capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Industry Experience: 4+ years of engineering project management experience within the medical device industry or a similarly strict, regulated environment.
- Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Salt Lake City, UT |
| Job Type | Full-time, Employee |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1984 |
| Headquarters | Salt Lake City, UT, US |
| Website | https://www.comrise.com/en |
Benefits
401K, Life Insurance
About Company
Headquartered in New Jersey since 1984, Comrise is a staffing, consulting and enhanced search technology company. For over 38 years, we have delighted our clients and consultants by focusing on customer satisfaction, innovation, and flexible workforce solutions!
Our team partners with top-performing companies across the Medical Device, Financial Services, Information Technology and Engineering industries. Our Cross Border Division connects professionals in North America and Asia with employers both locally and internationally.
Comrise has been awarded "Best of Staffing Client Satisfaction” for the last nine years.
Specialties: Managed IT Solutions, Big Data Solutions (Training, Staffing, Consulting, BDaaS), and Workforce Solutions (Staff Augmentation, Recruiting, RPO, Payrolling)
Skills
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Biomedical Engineeringunmatched
- Budgetingunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Data Analysisunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Engineeringunmatched
- Engineering Managementunmatched
- Establish Prioritiesunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Material Scienceunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Medical Equipmentunmatched
- Performance Analysisunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Project Engineeringunmatched
- Project Lifecycleunmatched
- Project Management Certificationunmatched
- Project Management Professional (PMP)unmatched
- Project Planningunmatched
- Project Trackingunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Public/Media/Press/Analyst Relationsunmatched
- Quality Metricsunmatched
- Relationship Managementunmatched
- Resource Managementunmatched
- Resource Utilizationunmatched
- Risk Managementunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
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