Project Manager

Openwater

Openwater

Operations

Taoyuan City, Taiwan

Posted 6+ months ago

The Hardware Technical Project Manager leads the development and business success of new, innovative medical device products from concept to completion. As an advocate for the users, you will guide a cross-functional team from concept through process validation, ensuring cost, schedule, quality and performance objectives are tracked and met. Requires a strategic thinker with strong analytical skills, excellent leadership abilities, and a deep understanding of user needs.

The Project Manger will recommend and take action to direct, analyze and guide the team to find solutions to issues while providing coaching/mentoring to others on project management principles and techniques. Responsible for driving the team to deliver the definition of product requirements, leading specification development, and leading cross-functional teams to deliver hardware designs from concept through development and to mass production. Partner with the NPI PM to ensure the delivery of supply chain and factory readiness. Able to manage the critical path, deliver contingency plans, track risks using a risk prioritization system, ensure mitigation plans are in place and guide the team through tough technical trade-offs.

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

● Create, coordinate and maintain complex integrated project plans

● Develop a strong understanding of user needs and be an advocate for the users

● Lead and motivate multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring clear roles and responsibilities

● Manage project information to support team decision making

● Perform critical path and project risk analysis

● Identify gaps, potential bottlenecks or delays, and then challenge assumptions and propose options

to close gaps and get projects back on schedule

● Manage meetings - including setting agendas, organizing meeting times, and taking meeting

minutes.

● Coordinate activities with external collaborators and contract manufacturers

● Share best practices with project teams and foster continuous improvement by sharing knowledge

and interacting with team members.

● Facilitate the requirement and analysis phase of engagement to capture customer needs and

develop project scope.

● Facilitate effective decision making and issue resolution

● Manage process for system and subsystem requirements, including management of traceability

● Facilitate Risk Management process according to ISO 14971

● Lead cross-functional communication and collaboration with functional area peers, working

proactively to ensure team unity

● Communicate freely with the leadership team and other team members to meet project, client,

and company goals

● Manage vendor and business partner relationships where appropriate for the delivery of customer

engagement.

● Organize and lead development builds, meetings, and activities at manufacturing facilities

● Maintain a positive, can-do attitude and embrace a culture of customer success and operational

excellence.

● Drive design verification, reliability testing, validation, and regulatory compliance activities

● Proactively drive and develop CI (Continuously Improvement) and CR (Cost Reduction) projects

with the JDM partner and Openwater global cross-functional teams for product and process

improvements.