Sr Project Manager
Department: Engineering, Extremities
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Gainesville, FL
Reporting To: Director E&D
Description
The Sr. Project Manager is responsible for planning, executing, monitoring, and closing large and/or enterprise projects within the defined scope, schedule, and budget. The PM leads cross functional teams and ensures that project outcomes align with business objectives and quality expectations. The role must balance scope, cost, and schedule while maintaining high product quality. The employee will lead staff of different disciplines to produce results in a timely manner. functional teams and ensures that project outcomes align with business objectives and quality expectation
Key Responsibilities
Planning
- Develop clear project charters, scope definitions, milestones, timelines, and deliverables for initiatives.
- Build and maintain project schedules, resource plans, and budgets using industry standard project management tools.
- Identify project interdependencies and establish strategies to address risks, constraints, and required alignment.
- Manages status of product development projects and budgets, including schedule updates, budget tracking, and reporting, and adjusting priorities based on available funding.
- Provide strategic direction for project planning by managing priorities, risks, and resource needs across the project portfolio, identifying while removing barriers that impede project progress.
- Forecast and allocate appropriate resources throughout the project lifecycle —including personnel, tools, and training; support teams as needed to accomplish project goals.
- Ensure appropriate departmental resources are assigned to the project and are available to effectively maintain the quality system (people, facilities, tools, and training).
Execution
- Oversee day-to-day project activities to ensure on time delivery of milestones and outcomes.
- Facilitate requirements of planning, elicitation, and management, ensuring they reflect stakeholder needs.
- Implement mechanisms for proactive issue resolution, escalation management, and problem solving with teams.
- Partner with functional units to resolve issues and support project execution throughout the product lifecycle.
- Monitor projects from initiation through delivery, identifying issues, and developing resolutions to meet quality and customer satisfaction goals.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Lead cross functional teams in evaluating, developing, and executing projects for new product development to ensure progress against milestones.
- Oversee operational aspects of projects and maintain partnership between Eng., quality, ops, and bus. stakeholders.
- Support the development and implementation of cross-functional processes that enable effective delivery of new products and improvements.
Communication
- Serve as a primary point of contact for project stakeholders, ensuring alignment and effective coordination across teams.
- Drive proactive communication and stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle to ensure deliverables meet business needs.
- Provide support to other employees, teams, and sales personnel as needed.
- Represent the project organization in briefings to the Executive Leadership Team and CEO, articulating challenges, successes, and strategic recommendations with clarity and confidence.
- Influences stakeholders at all levels—including senior leaders—to enable timely decisions, promote accountability, and advance project goals.
Risk & Compliance
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues throughout the lifecycle.
- Ensure compliance with Quality Management Systems, Design Controls, Regulatory Standards, and relevant federal/international regulations.
- Apply to relevant quality and regulatory standards consistently throughout all project activities.
Closure- Conduct post project evaluations to identify successful elements, areas for improvement, and lessons learned to inform future projects.
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
Education:- Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering, Management, Computer Science, or related field.
Experience:
- Required 5-8 years of professional experience
- Typically, 3-5 years of project management experience, depending on industry and project complexity
- At least successful completion of 1 comprehensive project with cross-functional team members
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience in medical device, healthcare, or related industry.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
- Proficient knowledge of IEC 62304, ISO 14971, EU MDR and FDA Design Controls and Submission standards.
Functional/Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
- Demonstrated record of accomplishment of successfully leading projects to completion.
- Highly developed skill set in project leadership practices, including the ability to balance risk, effectively influence diverse teams, and ownership of responsibility for outcomes.
- Excellent downward, lateral, and upward communication skills.
- Ability to make effective decisions when presented with multiple options.
- Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
- Proficiency in project management tools (e.g., Smart Sheet, Gantt charts, dashboards, task management systems).
