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INTRODUCTION

Are you someone who is passionate, motivated, and driven to make a difference? If so, MSA Safety is the perfect fit for your career.

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ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The purpose of this position is to manage projects of significant strategic impact that require project management across R&D and NPD Support functions. Duties include initiating, defining, planning, executing, and closing activities for strategic projects within budget and schedule, driving effective, efficient, quality project completion.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Experience (required):

• A minimum of 7 years of project management experience in cross-functional and/or geographically diverse New Product Development projects from discovery through deployment with proven track record of successful delivery and subsequent value realization
• A minimum of 10 years of working within R&D as an individual contributor, and/or project manager
• Experience working within multi-discipline engineering teams including mechanical, electrical and software
• CAP-M or significant progress towards PMP® (Project Management Professional)
• Experience managing projects through formal Stage-Gate New Product Development process, including design reviews, technical readiness reviews, and release gating
• Working knowledge of mechanical design processes: tolerance development, prototyping, tooling / production methodologies, etc.
• Familiarity with electronics development: PCB build cycles, firmware integration, debugging workflows, and similar
• Understanding of software development methodologies
• Ability to understand and communicate system architecture, interface dependencies, and integration risks
• Highly developed emotional intelligence and a leadership mindset to navigate project team challenges, establish trust, enhance collaboration, build relationships, drive engagement, ensure alignment, and influence without direct authority
• Advanced project management acumen needed to adapt to complex project environments, solve ambiguous problems, and drive strategic decision-making
• Advanced knowledge of, and experience implementing, project management methodologies and strategies to effectively and efficiently manage stakeholders, quality, schedule, scope, budget, resources, and risks
• Advanced capability in technical risk quantification, scenario modeling, and mitigation planning
• Ability to lead teams in developing and tracking product technical risk registers
• Skilled at proactively and strategically communicating to inform and collaborate with project teams and stakeholders on project progress, milestones, and potential hurdles
• Executive presence and experience working directly with senior leaders, including ability to prepare and confidently, succinctly, and tactfully present
• Understanding of change management expertise necessary to facilitate the adoption, functional ownership, and sustainment of deployed projects
• Strong customer focus, with ability to support driving tasks to completion to ensure on-time delivery while meeting or exceeding expectations
• Strong time management and organization ability to prioritize tasks, manage individual backlog, and complete tasks on time
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including formal presentation skills and ability to tailor messaging to audience
• Displays integrity and intellectual curiosity

Experience (preferred):

• PMP
• Experience with Agile Development
• Experience with SharePoint, Tempus, Miro, Teams, Atlassian (Confluence and Jira), SAP and MS Project

Education (required):

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Discipline

Education (preferred):

• MBA and/or MS in Engineering Discipline

Qualifications Note: This position is available at one career level based upon experience, education, etc.:
- Engineering Project Manager I - minimum 7 years of project management / engineering experience.
Master's degree may be substituted for up to 2 years of relevant experience. PMP Required.

LOCATION

Location: Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania

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