Engineering Project Manager - Medical Devices
Listed on 2026-10-02
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Engineering
Operations Management
- Santa Barbara, CA, US, 93111 Engineering Project Manager
- Medical Devices
Title
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Engineering Project Manager
- Medical Devices
Salary Range:
Salary Minimum: $92,000.00 Salary Maximum: $
Are you an engineer who enjoys bringing innovative ideas to life while leading teams through complex development challenges? At Arthrex, a global leader in orthopedic medical devices and medical education, we're seeking an Engineering Project Manager within the Global Service and Repair Organization to support cross-functional new product development programs from concept through commercialization. In this role, you'll partner with engineering, manufacturing, quality, regulatory, and business stakeholders to deliver life-changing, service ready medical technologies on time, within budget, and in compliance with industry regulations.
If you're a collaborative problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment and wants to make a meaningful impact on patient care, you'll find a rewarding career at Arthrex, where our mission is Helping Surgeons Treat Their Patients Better™.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manages subsidiary-based and global projects/programs within the scope of the new product development
- Develop project objectives by reviewing project proposals and business plans, conferring with senior management and key stakeholders
- Determines project schedule by studying project plan and specifications, calculates time requirements, identifying and sequencing project elements and discreet tasks
- Maintains project schedule by monitoring project progress, coordinating activities, and resolving risks or obstacles
- Determines project responsibilities by identifying project phases and elements, requesting and allocating resources as necessary
- Ensure design history file facilitation for assigned projects, adhering to Arthrex design control procedures.
- Ensure project progresses within the boundaries of the approved scope. Manage the scope of the project and guarantee scope changes are properly documented and implemented.
- Identify opportunities for improvement within the Project Management Governance and Design Control Process to improve speed to market.
- Monitor resource capacity within the New Product Development groups and cross-functional resources and communicate constraints or needs to senior management.
- Help facilitate, with interdepartmental managers, the availability, assignment, and accountability of downstream resources and technology
- Help facilitate project, program and portfolio status to management and key stakeholders with applicable metrics and project constraints.
Knowledge:
- Limited use and/or application of basic principles, theories, and concepts. Limited knowledge of industry practices and standards.
Reasoning Ability:
- Solves routine problems of limited scope and complexity following established policies and procedures.
Skills:
- Ability to effectively communicate project planning requirements, including task elucidation, duration, and resource requirements.
- Strong strategic thinker, excellent collaboration and communication skills, careful attention to detail.
- Ability to balance business and technical Ability to effectively communicate project planning requirements, including task elucidation, duration, and resource requirements.
- Strong strategic thinker, excellent collaboration and communication skills, careful attention to detail.
- Ability to balance business and technical risks while remaining compliant with internal systems.
- Awareness of full life cycle development of medical devices, which includes initiation, design, development, execution, and sustaining.
- Working knowledge of medical device regulations and associated quality systems, particularly design controls and risk management.
- Manufacturing process knowledge preferred.
- Awareness orthopedic surgery principles, theories, and products preferred.
- Knowledgeable of FDA and ISO guidelines for the development of medical devices preferred.
- Strong communication skills and accountability to project deliverable timing and budgets required.
- Ability to confidently lead complex, cross functional teams independently.
- Strong desire and proven ability to learn quickly.
- Continuously seeking ways to improve complex systems of people and processes, while eliminating waste.
Education/
Experience:
- BS Engineering required. Biomedical, Electrical, or Mechanical preferred
- 2 Years of Relevant Experience
Reasoning Ability:
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid…
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