Principal Program Manager

MMD Medical, a Velosity Company is searching for a Principal Program Manager to support our Brooklyn Park, MN location. The Principal Program Manager is key to initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing processes, which are demonstrated by developing, managing and implementing program plans. The Principal Program Manager builds team ownership and commitment to program plans. They will be responsible for leadership of product development programs and related work stream activities for products. The scope of programs includes all product support activities from Quote to the end of programs life.

This is an on-site position with roughly 10% travel time.

The typical pay range for this role: $135,000 - $166,000

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.

Who is Velosity?

Velosity Brooklyn Park is a cutting-edge medical parts manufacturer that enhances speed and cuts costs by engineering efficient processes.

At Velosity BP, our culture & values are our competitive advantages. Engrained in everything we do are our values of Collaboration, Results-Driven, Continuous Improvement, Integrity, and Customer Satisfaction. Sound like you? Apply to join our team today.

What You'll Love about Velosity:

• Excellent benefits package including medical, dental, life insurance, short term and long term disability, flex spending, 401k match, and MORE!
• Quarterly bonus opportunity
• Generous PTO offerings & 9 paid holidays annually
• Great opportunities for growth & advancement
• Clean, friendly, and air-conditioned work environment
• A collaborative employee centric environment that hires and develops talent based on our values
• Casual Dress Code

Essential Duties:

• Communication-
  • Ability to communicate throughout all levels of the organization from the production floor to corporate management level.
  • Communicates effectively with the customer's project/program team, customer's purchasing, and customer's supplier quality engineering team.
  • Generally is the first and main point of contact for the customer.
  • Identify additional business opportunities whether within the project/program managing or other opportunities become aware of.
• Strong Leadership-
  • Manage and lead the customer's large, complex projects/programs. The customer does not need to ask for status as it is provided and there is never a question who is leading, providing meeting minutes, action item logs, schedules, or other key communications or documents.
  • Manages the internal team's roles and responsibilities.
  • Manages prioritization and workload adjustments of the team to meet all project/program deliverables to the customer per the Gantt chart schedule.
  • Proven ability to motivate cross functional teams which do not report to you to achieve
• Knowledge -
  • Demonstrated execution on project/program engineering functions such as but not limited to contract review, DFM, process development, measurement system analysis, validation, qualification, statistics, and production readiness.
  • Technical knowledge in all technologies and processes the business offers to help lead customer and team members.
  • Mentors other Project/Program Managers to help further develop their skills and advance
  • Mentors team members to help them improve their communication, become stronger technically, and become leaders.
  • Work as part of a team or independently with no supervision necessary
  • Identify, communicate, and manage out risks to the project whether these be budget, timeline, or scope creep.
• Leads all phase and business reviews
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering (or related field)
• 10+ years project management experience in a regulated industry, preferably contract manufacturing

Licensing/Registration/Certification:

• Valid identification and the ability to work legally in the United States.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran, marital, or disability status.

We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

Velosity is an E-Verify employer.

Velosity maintains ITAR-compliant operations in our facilities. Due to ITAR regulations, this role is only open to U.S. Citizens, lawful permanent residents (green card holders) or foreign nationals granted refugee or asylee status. Individuals with temporary visas (e.g. E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, TN or OPT) are not eligible for hire in this role.