R&D Project Manager - #438066

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This position reports to

Senior Engineering Manager

Your Role And Responsibilities

• Project team leadership: Leads and supports local and cross-functional project teams, including associate R&D project managers. Motivates and monitors internal and/or external resources to accomplish all committed targets.
• Project management: Accountable for the end-to-end planning, coordination, execution, and delivery of assigned project(s).
• Value management: Ensures team understanding of customer value in the projects and acts to ensure customer satisfaction and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Project execution and control: Ensures that project activities are effectively prioritized, estimated, and planned. Monitors and controls progress towards plan to ensure achievement of commitments and targeted milestones / stage-gates. Ensures issues, conflicts and impediments are resolved at the appropriate level (i.e., team, project), escalating as required.
• Manage uncertainties and risks: Ensures transparency around change requests, unforeseen results/events and identified risks.
• Projects, processes, and tools: Ensures projects follow sound methodology and execution practices, aligned with desired development model (e.g., predictive/waterfall, iterative/agile, hybrid) and in accordance with applicable ABB internal directives and procedures as well as external standards, etc. that influence activities and targets.
  
  

Qualifications For The Role

• Passion for Project Management: Demonstrated passion for leading projects and teams.
• Leadership and Collaboration: Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate teams and promote collaboration across functions.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in product development or project management, preferably in a technical field.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, or a related field preferred.
• Proficiency in both English and French is required.(team diversified international development teams).
  
  

Benefits

• Retirement plan
• Accident insurance
• Healthcare plan
• Wellbeing program
  
  

More About Us

This offer is conditional upon the applicant obtaining Industrial Security Level 2 status and a certificate issued by the Department of Controlled Goods. We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. For the ninth consecutive year, ABB Canada has been recognized as one of Canada's Best Employers by Forbes magazine. Consistently ranked as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers, Montreal's Best Employers, Canada's Best Employers for Young People, Canada's Greenest Employers and a long-time recipient of the Women in Governance Parity Certification, ABB's culture and commitment is to provide a caring workplace where everyone collaborates, feels valued, respected, included and supported. Also committed to ensuring that all policies and practices respect the Employment Equity Program, we aim for our workforce to be truly representative of the four designated groups; women, aboriginal people, members of visible minorities, and/or persons with disabilities. ABB will provide reasonable accommodation to the applicant with disabilities and encourage applicants to self-identify in the application process. ABB's Military Reservist Policy offers Canada's Reserve Force members the flexibility to undergo military training and activities while maintaining job security, seniority, pay, benefits, and privileges as ABB employees, including up to 15 paid working days per year for training, as well as extended leave for operations both in Canada and abroad, ensuring seamless career integration with our nation's defense forces.