Role: R&D Program Manager
Location: Glasgow Scotland Hybrid WFH and onsite. Will also consider fully remote in UK, Belgium, The Netherlands, Sweden or Poland. If remote, must be willing to travel to Glasgow once per month.
Excellent Pay and Benefits!
This is an outstanding place to work!
It all starts with the people. You will love working with colleagues who have a genuine desire to innovate and seek out complicated problems. We each come into work every day trying to make the organization a little better than it was the day before. We ask the tough questions and push each other to be courageous. This occurs in an environment that cultivates authenticity and clarity. We believe in absolute inclusion and diversity. Qualitrol associates enjoy the autonomy, breadth of responsibility, and creativity that are typical in a medium-sized company, while sharing resources, standard methodologies, and career opportunities that are found in a Fortune 500 company like Fortive.
Your Impact
The Program Manager will bring in new products/systems from strategic identification through commercialisation and production. They will work with the engineering team to remain aligned on scope, manage risks, handle project issues, provide multi-functional communications, and lead the project team to success by using Fortive Business Systems (FBS).
Here’s Where You’ll Demonstrate Your Proficiencies
- Use agile practices and scrum framework to deliver critical customer facing, enterprise system solutions.
- Collaborate with multi-functional teams to deliver top-notch solutions to our global customers while building and maintaining strong working relationships across the organisation.
- Gain a solid understanding of customer requirements and manage potential risks while controlling project timelines.
- Support and convey importance of project documentation.
- Present project status to executive leadership team.
- Establish project rules, standard methodologies, and budget control.
- Plan for the execution of quality assurance and organisational change.
- Actively report to PMO Director the successes, areas for improvement and programs at risk in a timely manner to ensure corrective action.
Skills & Experience
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Science related field
- Extensive experience as an engineering Program Manager with a full understanding of Project Management processes across platform level programs.
- Clear understating of lean product development and systems development practices and lifecycles.
- Ability to lead and work within multi-functional teams spanning multiple time zones.
- Desire to work with a structured, process driven, and continuous improvement organisation.
- Experience using Jira and Microsoft Suite, including MS Project.
- Ability to produce high quality written reports and relevant presentations.
The following checks will be performed as part of the "Standard" package: Social Security Validation, Social Security Number Search, KwikScreen Search (all names), County Criminal (all names & addresses provided, developed and worked), Employment Verification (all employers for last 7 years, up to 3 employers), Education Verification (highest level completed), Candidate Entry (for eLink).
Fortive Corporation Overview
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.
We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
QUALITROL manufactures monitoring and protection devices for high value electrical assets and OEM manufacturing companies. Established in 1945, QUALITROL produces thousands of different types of products on demand and customized to meet our individual customers’ needs. We are the largest and most trusted global leader for partial discharge monitoring, asset protection equipment and information products across power generation, transmission, and distribution. At Qualitrol, we are redefining condition-based monitoring. We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment application process, please contact us at applyassistance@fortive.com.
This position is also eligible for bonus as part of the total compensation package.
