Sr Staff Project Manager

Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Location/Division Specific Information

Position will be based in Houston, Texas based and will support the Corporate Global Business Services business unit.

Discover Impactful Work:

The Sr. Manager Project Management will partner with Technical Sourcing Engineering, PCBA CoE, MCP CoE leaders to ensure initiatives have robust project plans with review and approval of major initiatives. The person will also implement processes, reporting, and tools to provide insight to the work underway, the value of that work, and resolve project issues as required. Accountable for the creation & maintenance of program management governance and standards as it directly relates to the PMO.

A Day in the Life:

• Develop and lead a project intake and prioritization process to optimize resources efficiently and effectively in a cross-functional / matrixed organization.
• Create and manage project controls, resources, costs, visibility reporting, and impact to key performance metrics.
• Develop a process and conduct regular reviews/reporting of resource allocation and raise issues around resource gaps.
• Collaborate with leaders to establish both governance and standard methodologies for the team's cadence. (schedules, heatmaps, resource management, metric impact, return on investment)
• Ensure regular cadence of communication on key projects/initiatives to ensure prioritization of works efforts and aligned priorities; establish forum for updates.
• Identify and mitigate duplicate, non-value, and de-prioritized efforts within the broader matrixed organization.
• Ensure accuracy and alignment within reports being generated / communicated from the department and to maintain records of the team's impact.
• Oversee systems of record such as Per Angusta, PPM Pro, and Rever for practical process improvement.
• Support the organization in the effort of communicating value brought to the overall company.
• Support finance department in applicable records keeping and reporting to leadership.
• Support team's in gathering requirements, design testing specs and become familiar with manufacturing systems that impact the team's abilities to deliver.

Keys to Success:

Education

• Bachelor's degree required. Preferably in Chemistry, Engineering, or Chemical Engineering.

Experience

• Minimum of 6 years of project management experience; preferred experience in manufacturing
• Advanced Continuous improvement experience (lean, PPI, Six Sigma, 5S) a plus.
• Project Management and/or PMP certification a plus.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Consistent track record of successfully managing complex projects.
• Outstanding ability to organize and effectively convey information.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with a diverse range of individuals.
• Demonstrated understanding of the principles of projected management will be required for this role.
• Being well organized and able to prioritize tasks will help you be successful in this role.
• Having strong attention to detail and the ability to establish and meet project commitments is crucial.

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits! Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.