Senior Engineering Project Manager

Are you a Senior Engineering Project Manager looking to join one of the top companies in the Manufacturing Industry?

Are you looking to further your career and grow?

Do you have experience in Sustaining R&D, R&D, Manufacturing engineering, or R&D for medical devices?

If you answered yes to those three questions, then apply today!

Acara Solutions seeks highly qualified candidates to work ON-SITE with our client in Austin, TX. Interested?

Here's what you'd do:

• Manages and sustains R&D projects with internal and external resources.
• Lead and manage projects from initial assessment through implementation (commercialisation).
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and external suppliers to ensure seamless execution of projects.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, and stakeholder communication strategies.
• Formulate project proposals.
• Support strategic evaluations of potential projects and preparation of business cases.
• Oversee implementation processes, identify risks and opportunities, and provide actionable insights to leadership.
• Ensure compliance with internal procedures.
• Executes the project within the defined requirements (budget, time, functionality).
• Ensures business success and customer satisfaction, and ensures professional stakeholder management.
• Ensures timely decisions on open issues, escalating if necessary.
• Manages a network of technical specialists to realise customer-specific components, systems, or solutions.
• Coordinates the engineering disciplines and cooperates with involved regional engineering units, including their interfaces.
• Performs technical risk management.
• Acts as an interface to the client, responsible for technical risks and opportunities.
• Financial performance and business risk are expected to be medium.
• Contractual Complexity of the project is low.
• Technical Complexity, medium.
• Organisation complexity is low.
• Typical Budget (accountably managed) 2.5 M EUR to 7 M EUR p.a., Typical Budget (influenced as key contributor), higher volume.
• Facilitates the execution of the project/program solution plan for complex projects or programs.
• Responsible for the delivery of complex project/program plans.
• Supports the project/program management role (definition of schedule, budget, risk, change, opportunity, and resource allocation management) for complex projects or programs.
• Acts as a functional or business process resource on projects or programs.
• Facilitates the execution of the continuous improvement plan.
• Perform an active role in maintaining client relationships and sales opportunities.
• Frequent inter-organisational and external contacts (with clients and service providers).
• Primarily intra-organisational contacts; external contacts occur in the frame of client projects.
• Manages (at least) medium projects and is expected to run plans with the same/higher complexity further.

Here's what you'll get:

Pay: $73.40 / hr.

Hours: 40 hrs/Week. (1^st shift).

Length: Contract (12 months).

Sound like a good fit?

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About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customise visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Mechanical or Biomedical or Software or Electrical or Science or Technology or Mathematics or Biology or Chemistry.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in Sustaining R&D, R&D or Manufacturing engineering, or R&D for medical devices.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in project management tools (MS Project, Monday.com, Jira).
• Minimum 4 years of Documentation and DHF experience.
• Minimum 5 years of project management experience.

• Excellent project management capabilities with the ability to manage multiple high-stakes projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to lead and work well with teams.
• Strategic thinker with good analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Professional certifications such as PMP.
• High level of integrity, discretion, and resilience under pressure.
• Good business acumen and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Certified as Project Manager.
• Engineering background (ideally transitioned from engineering to PM).
• Medical device industry experience.
• Familiarity with design controls, change management, and multi-project environments.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check and a drug screen.
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.