Job Title: Senior Project Manager
# Positions: 1
Overview:
At Spacelabs Healthcare, we are on a mission - to develop innovative medical systems and
services that provide patient monitoring, anesthesia delivery and ventilation, and cardiology
diagnostics to clinicians and healthcare facilities around the world.
Our Mission: To inspire the world to bring the best care experience to patients and families.
One patient, one family, one smile at a time.
The Senior Project Manager R&D is responsible for the execution of projects for new product
design and introduction and enhancements to existing products.
This position is responsible for the management of assigned projects from the concept stage,
continuing through customer deliveries; and is expected to become expert in the definition and
use of the product(s), and the technologies that are used. Position involves a high amount of
independent judgment regarding technical tradeoffs and decisions.
This position leads project teams, and is responsible for enforcing best practices within the
teams, ensuring adherence to company policies and procedures, compliance requirements; while
mentoring and growing the skill set of the team.
Responsibilities:
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Negotiate schedule, risk, product features and resource trade-offs with project and
program teams.
Manage the development of software and hardware for products.
Establish all QMS and regulatory requirements for the development project and ensure
they are met.
Act as a mentor to engineers, teaching them Spacelabs processes and good
design/test/documentation practices.
Develop requirements, specifications, schedules, risk analysis, and tradeoff analysis for
products.
Participate in the development of products from project onset through completion,
delivery and maintenance phases.
Build, drive, and support cross functional teams through the development process.
Act as project management domain expert for other project managers. Will manage
multiple, large, and/or critical projects.
Provide frequent communications and formal project reviews with senior management,
program team and others as required.
Develop and publish metrics and project tracking to measure progress and keep project
on-track.
Ensure contract resources are effectively managed and deliver services and products as
promised, and that meet our QMS requirements.
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Uphold the Company’s core values of Integrity, Innovation, Accountability, and
Teamwork.
Demonstrate behavior consistent with the Company’s Code of Ethics and Conduct.
Manage, evaluate and develop project teams to meet functional deliverables and
responsibilities – may be direct reports or matrixed employees. Exhibit manager core
competencies.
It is the responsibility of every Spacelabs Healthcare employee to report to their manager
or a member of senior management any quality problems or defects in order for
corrective action to be implemented and to avoid recurrence of the problem.
Duties may be modified or assigned at any time to meet the needs of the business.
Qualifications:
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Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, or similar related degree. Master’s degree is
desirable.
10+ years’ experience in related industry and positions – for example, R&D or
Test/V&V, or Operations Engineering in capital equipment, medical device, or other
regulated industry.
8+ years experience in managing multiple, complex priorities within demanding
timeframes. Advanced project management skills and methodologies. PMP certification
desirable.
Solid understanding of the development process, including requirements gathering,
analysis and design, development tools and technologies, release and version control,
contemporary testing methodologies and deployment management.
Knowledge of FDA and medical device regulatory and registration requirements.
Has a track record of encouraging innovation and out-of-box thinking.
Highly developed relationship-building skills, and strong presentation and
communication skills.
Experience working positively and productively in a team environment. Highly
collaborative.
Proven ability to deliver results through others, both direct and matrixed. Proven ability
to build/lead dedicated, passionate teams. Can develop, motivate and hold others
accountable.
Excellent communication and negotiation skills, for both internal and external audiences,
at all levels.
Knowledge of and ability to work within a global corporate environment is required.
Advanced Microsoft Office user - Powerpoint, Excel, and Word. Experienced with
Microsoft Project software.
Must travel internationally and be able to acquire all necessary travel documents.
Must be able to complete job responsibilities working with global time zone needs such
as attending late night/early morning meetings by phone and/or web to meet global
business needs.
Interested? Please send a resume to Barbara Gosenheimer, Director of Global ADV
Engineering at barbara.gosenheimer@spacelabs.com