What are the responsibilities and job description for the Project Manager position at FastTek?
Project Manager #1010555
Job Description:
This role requires expert level communication, organization, and critical thinking skills. A self-starter, with the ability to track and manage multiple tasks and competing priorities, is required. The applicant must be well organized, with solid experience providing executive level presentations and status reporting
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Education and/or Experience:
This Job Is Ideal for Someone Who Is:
What are the top three to five technical skill requirements?
What are the top three to five soft skill wants?
What is the expected interview process?
Additional Info:
At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.
We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years!
FastTek Global is a financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused, operating in nearly half of the states in the U.S., Europe and India.
We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.
Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:
Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.
FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023!
To view all of our open positions go to: https://www.fasttek.com/fastswitch/findwork
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fasttekglobal
Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fasttekglobal
Find us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fasttek
You can become a fan of FastTek on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fasttekglobal/
Job Description:
This role requires expert level communication, organization, and critical thinking skills. A self-starter, with the ability to track and manage multiple tasks and competing priorities, is required. The applicant must be well organized, with solid experience providing executive level presentations and status reporting
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Lead cross functional scientific and technical teams in all aspects of project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and closure for programs assigned
- Lead teams in timely resolution of complex problems, including development of technical solutions, project plans, resourcing plans and budgets
- Accountable for core team performance, creation and management of project schedule, execution of the project, and budget commitments and spend
- Interacts through program updates and reviews with all functions and levels of management ensuring effective ongoing communications across teams and stakeholders
- Ensures identification and communication of project risks, development of risk plan and proactive management of risk response strategies
- Manage all financial aspects of assigned projects, from initiation through close, which may include capital expenditures, functional expenses, and program positioning
- Anticipates potential conflict situations for proactive solutions and manages conflict situations to result in win-win outcomes
- Work within the guidelines of project management, standard performance metrics, and regulatory guidelines to apply best practice Project Management skills, methodologies and standards (such as PMBOK)
- Maximizes business results through continuous improvement in organization's ability to execute programs from identification through implementation
- Leads core team to identify and implement continuous improvement
Qualifications:
- Expertise in all aspects of project and program management
- Self-motivated/driven, good interpersonal skills and experience in analyzing complex problems as well as driving high performing teams
- Must have ability to lead cross-functional teams
- Excellent oral/written communication and presentation skills
- Understanding of Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Laboratory Practices and product development process requirements
- Strong leadership and financial acumen skills
- Proficiency with scheduling software such as MS Project
- Ability to create and maintain project deliverables such as project timelines, meeting minutes, status reports etc.
- PMP (Project Management Professional) certification desired
Education and/or Experience:
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree required preferably in an Engineering or Science or equivalent discipline. MS/MBA preferred
- 5 years of demonstrated success leading multi-site, global or enterprise-wide programs in the medical products industry including 3-4 years of project management experience
- EU MDR experience is a plus
This Job Is Ideal for Someone Who Is:
- Dependable -- more reliable than spontaneous
- People-oriented -- enjoys interacting with people and working on group projects
- Adaptable/flexible -- enjoys doing work that requires frequent shifts in direction
- Detail-oriented -- would rather focus on the details of work than the bigger picture
- Achievement-oriented -- enjoys taking on challenges, even if they might fail
- Autonomous/Independent -- enjoys working with little direction
- Innovative -- can lead the team to develop creative solutions even in the face of high stress
What are the top three to five technical skill requirements?
- Strong preference for science/engineering background or degree, planning and forecasting, ability to drive technical issues to resolution, knowledge and utilization of project scheduling software, knowledge of project management methodologies. Knowledge of medical devices and EU MDR is a plus.
What are the top three to five soft skill wants?
- Communication, leadership, time management, interpersonal skills, conflict resolution
What is the expected interview process?
- At least 3 interviews
Additional Info:
At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.
We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years!
FastTek Global is a financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused, operating in nearly half of the states in the U.S., Europe and India.
We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.
Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:
- Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
- Vision
- Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
- Long Term Disability (100% paid)
- Life Insurance (100% paid)
- 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match
Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.
FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023!
To view all of our open positions go to: https://www.fasttek.com/fastswitch/findwork
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fasttekglobal
Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fasttekglobal
Find us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fasttek
You can become a fan of FastTek on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fasttekglobal/
