Sr. Project Manager

Dover Motion is an innovative technology company solving the world’s most challenging problems in motion control. We serve critical markets in Life Science & Diagnostics including Cancer Research, Genomic Sequencing, Virus Surveillance, and more. Together with our market leading clients, we make the world a better and healthier place.

Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that strives to hit progressive goals and objectives for both new and existing products? Do you value problem-solving and growth? Do you like operating in a team-focused work environment with a high degree of independence? If this sounds like your ideal workplace, we cannot wait to hear from you!

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager, responsible for providing action-oriented leadership to drive the delivery of our motion solutions. This position requires the ability to work effectively with team members at all levels of the organization, establish and execute to project schedules, clearly communicate project status, and manage project priorities and risks. At times and when the situation allows, you may travel to customer sites to gain a better understanding and drive success.

Key Requirements:

• 7+ years’ industrial manufacturing experience, resulting in:
  • Technical experience and understanding
  • Design and development, and transfer to manufacture experience
  • Understanding manufacturing challenges (and solutions) and the environment
• Experience working in cross-functional project or product development, demonstrating:
  • Development phase experience, including understanding and delivering on customer needs within the business context
  • The ability to be able to flexible on projects, recognizing their different needs and requirements
  • Flexibility and multi-project management
• Highly desirable: Consumer technology, medical device, or consumer healthcare background, including experience working with OEMs in the Life Sciences industry.

Responsibilities:

Manage projects to the highest standards of quality and delivery, including:

• Ensuring the solution is delivered on time, within budget and meeting or exceeding customer expectations.
• Manage project related client contacts, including multi-stakeholder expectations of customer team and internal team, and alignment of Dover Motion project team with proposal and contract commitments.
• Direct the project team in day-to-day activities and provide program leadership.
• Prepare detailed project schedules, expenditure estimates and resource plans.
• Approve designs and design changes, conduct final review of all commercial commitments with the Senior Director, Commercial Operations.
• Review and recommend proposal changes if achievement of deliverables is unlikely.

Support of selling activities, including:

• Assist in generating new proposals and work closely with business development and discipline leaders to set strategy and support conversion process.

Individual Skills:

• Responsive and quick thinking with superior problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated science and/or engineering aptitude.
• Ability to interact with customers to ensure transparency in project deliverables/time frames.
• Strong, collaborative leadership presence amongst peers and subordinates.
• Structured, process-based approach and ability to get things done in a matrix organization.
• Excellent, articulate verbal and written communication skills.
• Meticulous attention to detail and a keen awareness of project requirements and deadlines.
• Desirable: engineering qualification

Fortive Corporation Overview

Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.

We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.

We are a diverse team 17,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.

At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.

At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.

At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.

Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.

About Dover Motion

Dover Motion, Inc. is a subsidiary of Fortive Corporation and we are revolutionizing the way things move. We partner with life science and diagnostics leaders around the world to co-create lifesaving technologies in healthcare that millions rely on every day. Our stages and electronic motion control bring quantum leaps in throughput, precision, efficiency, and reliability for microscopy and factory automation applications. Dover Motion’s relationship with Fortive allows its employees access to competitive benefits, extensive training, and exciting development opportunities. To learn more about any of the above, please visit http://www.dovermotion.com/about-us/careers

Pay Range

The salary range for this role is $87,670 to $162,690.

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