Senior R&D Project Manager required for a staff role with a Limerick based Medical Device facility.

Role Summary:

Lead the project management efforts for Research and Development projects through design, development and taking to market of medical devices for the Vascular division.



Essential Duties and Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Project management lead for assigned projects.
• Lead project management of projects and coordinate with technical leads to progress projects.
• Establishment and management of routine team meetings to facilitate plan updates, decision-making, problem solving, escalations e.g. resourcing gaps, mitigations vs non-adherence to plan.
• Assist with the introduction of best practice project management methodologies.
• Maintains oversight on Project budget; manages project risks i.e. leads the development of risk register and mitigations with the project team.
• Manage the key activities of the project and drive project tasks to ensure timely completion of project milestones
• Generate and monitor project metrics, including ownership of communicating to team/s and senior management.
• Responsible for realising business metrics within projects.
• Work closely to build effective relationships with cross functional groups to achieve project and company goals.
• Work closely with vendors as required to facilitate, plan development, monitoring and controlling.
• Retrospective project reviews to understand lessons learned.
• Compliance with Quality, Regulatory and company policies and systems.

• Proven Project Management methodology and skills.
• Third level degree in Mechanical, Biomedical or similar discipline, Masters or Ph.D. level preferred but not essential.
• Certified in Project management is essential.
• Agile methodology is preferred but not essential
• 7+ years’ experience is ideal in medical device industry.
• Proven Project Leadership abilities.
• Proven track record in delivering quality results in a timely effective manner.
• Knowledge of anatomy and physiology is preferred but not essential.
• Good mechanical design and understanding of engineering fundamentals in medical devices.
• Innovative/Creative individual.
• Good manufacturing design and process understanding is preferred but not essential.
• Good presentation skills (working knowledge of MS PowerPoint).
• Strong technical writer.
• Attention to detail and Quality focus.
• Good working knowledge of medical device quality & regulatory systems and medical device directives (ISO13485 and FDA CFR 820).