Associate Manager - Technical Project Manager

Job Title: Associate Manager

Location: Gurgaon, India

No. of Open Two

Positions:

Experience: 10-15 yrs

Job Purpose:

- Provides leadership, technical oversight and direction, people capabilities and ensure effective delivery of projects to internal customers and stakeholders.

- Interfaces with divisional counterparts in US and elsewhere, for creating a well-defined career path and individual development plans, in sync with the business requirements and individual career aspirations.

- The main objective of the team is to build an internal core competency in addressing various anti-reprocessing features. This team will play a significant role in reducing the time-to-market for new products containing kill switches by providing complete countermeasure solutions to New Product Development (NPD) teams.

- The team consists of engineers who have expertise in firmware, embedded systems, electronic design& Reverse engineering, software development and validation. In future, the team will also be staffed with experts in mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, and material science.

Roles and Responsibilities:

- Responsible for the timely and quality deliveries of the tasks assigned to the team

- Work as point of contact for all people related aspects with the stakeholders

- Ensure continual improvement in customer satisfaction, delivering higher value services and productivity

- Establish systems and continually improve them to manage the design, procurement and delivery value chain, where applicable

- Review meetings with the team to monitor progress of projects and provide guidance, develop contingent plans, arrange resources as needed

- Align dedicated and shared resources cross-functionally to optimize to ensure achievement of business results, acquire and develop middle to junior level resources as needed, manage pipeline

- Managing partnerships with vendors and other entities as needed

- Manage knowledge at various spectrums appropriately to avoid losing it and help newcomers pick it up fast

- Contribute to absorption of new technologies, processes and methods by making them part of own team's delivery plan

- Communicating frequently across all project disciplines to ensure project team and senior management are aware of upcoming milestones and risks/issues

- Develop Individual Development plans

- Develop an environment to focus on customer needs, and an organization that has advanced understanding of external and internal customers to effectively improve design quality of products and services

- Develop an open culture to instill confidence, diversity of perspectives and knowledge sharing

- Compliance to Quality Management System and Design Controls

- Manage appropriate budgets in accordance with business plans under the necessary guidance

Specific Job Skills:

Mandatory:

People Management

- Strong People Management skills with proven records of leading and creating engaged teams.

- Ability to influence, motivate and lead

- Short or medium term vision, building team, inspire others, courage, organizing

Project Management

- Excellent understanding of various phases of New Product Development/Change Control

- Good experience of working with multiple teams and collaborating across geographically spread multi-functional teams

- Applied knowledge of project Management tools e.g. Microsoft Project, SharePoint, etc.

- Product design experience in medical devices

- Understanding of medical domain and clinical setting

Technical

- Significant experience with Analog and digital circuit designing

- Hands on experience in Embedded Systems/Products Development & Testing

- Experience on development/testing of systems/products with RTOS/VxWorks/LabView

- Embedded Software development in both C/C++ (minimum 2 years)

- Hands on experience with static timing analysis, SDC constraints

- Experience in FPGA design process and tools, functional verification and Knowledge of VHDL/Verilog & FPGA development tools

- Strong board level troubleshooting skills and understanding of hardware-software interaction

- Designing and understanding software architectures and application layers

- Well versed with managing teams for writing test plans and test cases document and exposure to test management tools.

Good to have:

- Experience in communication protocols like UART, CAN and I2C

- Experience on interfaces like Firewire (IEEE1394), Ethernet (10/100/1000), RS232/UART(up to 921K), Digital I/O, Analog I/O

- Hands on with lab equipment's like DSO, Logic analyzer, Function generator, etc.

- US FDA quality regulations 21CFR part 820

- ISO 13485 standards

- Good understanding of mechanical systems

- Experience in working in a government-regulated industry

Additional:

- Strong communication, analytical, and problem solving skills

- Goal oriented, strong sense of responsibility, and ability to work with cross functional teams

- Requirement to work shifted hours when necessary to accommodate US time zone.

- If required candidate should open to travel.

Education:

- BE/B.Tech/ME/M. Tech in Computer Science/ Electronics/ Electrical Engineering

- Experience: 10-12 years

- 10-12 years- experience in technical, project and people management roles

- Minimum 2 years