Job Details: Project Manager - Velocity11
| Job Title: | Project Manager - Velocity11 |
| Job ID: | 2024852 |
| Company: | Agilent Technologies |
| Position Type: | Permanent |
| Pay Rate: | Competitive |
| Date Posted: | May-12-08 |
Project Manager -- Products
Velocity11 -- an Agilent Technologies Company -- is a global leader in providing laboratory automation solutions for drug discovery and a range of other scientific research and development applications. Help us become the standard in laboratory automation by providing our customers with the Ultimate Automation Experience?.
We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our exciting New-Products Team. A high-visibility position, the Project Manager will have the ability to contribute as a strong integrator, leading multidisciplinary projects. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, with the ability to work comfortably in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
Leading a multidisciplinary team of hardware, electrical, software, and system engineers, the Project Manager will:
• Work together with product marketing to consolidate, understand, and clarify project requirements.
• Create, manage, and track accurate project schedules and budgets for multiple new-product developments.
• Coordinate engineering resources to complete projects on time and on budget.
• Ensure that products meet or exceed functionality and quality requirements.
• Represent the engineering department at cross-functional project meetings to communicate project status, schedule, and budget.
• Communicate regularly with engineering managers and directors on project status, activities, issues, and risks.
• Facilitate a stronger project-management discipline in the organization.
Qualifications:
Education/Experience:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in engineering or science discipline.
• PMP certification and 3 years expereince using Microsoft Project
• 5+ years of project-management experience, with experience in analytical, life science, or similar industry a plus
• Experience with MS Project Enterprise Server, with other project-management tools in addition to the requirements are a plus.
• Experience leading successful engineering projects to match or exceed project requirements.
• Experience with product development, including the balancing among scope, time, cost, quality, and risk.
• Demonstrated knowledge of project-management processes and tools.
• Ability to coordinate activities and use of project resources to achieve project objectives within time and cost constraints.
• Ability to skillfully address project issues and risks by means of early identification and decisive resolution and/or mitigation.
• Ability to understand, track, drill-down, and question activities, issues, and risks in various engineering disciplines and make sound business decisions based on that data.
• Ability to communicate efficiently and effectively within and outside of the engineering department.
• Demonstrated leadership, negotiation, and influence management skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of various engineering disciplines, including hardware, electrical, software, and systems engineering.
• General knowledge of product marketing.
• General knowledge of manufacturing/operations.
• Demonstrated strong follow-through with thorough attention to detail.
• Demonstrated exceptional organizational abilities.
Geo Location: Santa Clara CA.
Travel: Occasional
| Location: [rss] | US-CA-Menlo Park |
| Telecommute: | No (Onsite Position) |
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