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R&D Project Manager

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This position reports to

Business Manager - EML North America

Your role and responsibilities

As a R&D Project Manager, you develop or create products, systems, services, or technologies for ABB´s Emergency Lighting business line by leading/facilitating the end-to-end execution of one or more Research and Development (R&D) projects to achieve associated milestones, targets, and desired outcomes. This role is contributing to the Electrification, Smart Building division of ABB and is located in Dorval. The work model is hybrid, with 3 days per week at the office.

1. Project Team Leadership: Leads and supports local and cross-functional project teams, including associate R&D project managers, in projects with limited complexity and/or sub-projects of a complex project. Motivates and monitors internal and/or external resources to accomplish all committed targets. Fosters a positive team environment, technical excellence, and continuous attention to quality and built-in quality practices. Ensure objectives, priorities, key decisions, and status are effectively communicated to all stakeholders.
2. Project Management: Accountable for the end-to-end planning, coordination, execution, and delivery of assigned project(s). Oversees/facilitates the development and management of cost, schedule, quality, and performance objectives for projects. Identifies and manages interdependencies between projects and project level constraints to realize specified benefits. Ensures appropriate prioritization of requirements within a project by partnering with relevant business units or other customers.
3. Value Management: Ensures team understanding of customer value in the projects and acts to ensure customer satisfaction and manage stakeholder expectations. Engages stakeholders in defining value and integrates feedback into activities.
4. Project Execution and Control: Ensures that project activities are effectively prioritized, estimated, and planned. Monitors and controls progress on the plan to ensure achievement of commitments and targeted milestones/stage-gates. Ensures efficient utilization of available resource capacity and proactively addresses critical resource bottlenecks and project constraints. Analyzes project budget and estimates. Monitors and controls progress, cost/financials, and quality. Reports to and takes directives from the steering committee or other governing body and provides them and other key stakeholders with regular and open communication to ensure transparency and awareness of progress and issues. Ensures issues, conflicts, and impediments are resolved at the appropriate level (i.e., team, project), escalating them as required. Applies appropriate project management tools to manage and optimize execution and value delivery. Utilizes the appropriate metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to provide early detection of project deviations, and facilitates data-driven decision-making and transparency. Formalizes acceptance of project deliverables and closure of all project elements based on the definition of done.
5. Manage Uncertainties and Risks: Ensures transparency around change requests, unforeseen results/events and identified risks. Ensures that changes, risks, and issues are properly assessed, managed, and communicated. Documents key assumptions and corresponding risks. Ensures that all opportunities are captured and acted upon.
6. Stakeholder Relations: Serves as the key contact and escalation point for project stakeholders. Effectively engages and communicates appropriate information to stakeholders in a timely manner to achieve desired buy-in, understanding and support.
7. Mentoring and Coaching: Coaches and mentors teams, associate R&D Project Managers and other stakeholders in good project execution/development practices and mindsets.
8. Collaboration: Models and promotes team collaboration within R&D, as well as between R&D and Product Management and other functions/stakeholders. Partners with business managers, steering groups, Product Management, and other internal and external stakeholders to ensure execution alignment and predictability to optimize value delivery.
9. 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. Serves as advocate and change agent for driving desired ways of working (e.g., lean, agile, Scrum, SAFe) and relentless improvement. Ensures project/team retrospectives are routinely conducted and corresponding lessons learned are captured and widely shared on a regular basis (i.e., at the achievement of key milestones/gates, completion of program increments).
10. Networking: Manages, and expands relationships with stakeholders, internal functions, Corporate Research Centers, and external relevant parties (e.g., customers, academia). Participates and encourages participation of R&D Associate Project Managers in Communities of Practice.

Qualifications for the role

- More than 5 years of experience in a similar function, with strong technology background.
- Assurance & Quality Management.
- Strategy & Business Offerings.
- Process Improvement & Optimization.
- Documentation Tools, Standards and Processes.
- IP Strategy.
- Knowledge Management.
- Risk Management & Incident Handling.
- Project Management, Planning & Execution.
- Governance.
- General Finance.

Benefits

- Retirement plan
- Accident insurance
- Healthcare plan
- Wellbeing program

More about us

ABB Smart Buildings digitally transforms commercial, industrial and residential buildings for the highest comfort, efficiency, safety and security - enhancing quality of life in buildings of the future through safe, smart and sustainable electrification solutions, services and products. 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.

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