Project Engineer/Program Manager

Description: Our Company Viken Detection provides enabling security imaging and material identification solutions that help law enforcement and safety inspection professionals keep the public safe from drug trafficking, terrorism, and environmental hazardous threats. The company’s innovative vehicle scanners, the OSPREY Portal series, and its handheld products, the HBI-120, NIGHTHAWK-HBI, FOXHOUND-HNA and Pb200e are the recognized leaders in their markets. Viken Detection is headquartered just west of Boston in Burlington, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.vikendetection.com What You Will Do Combine aspects of project/program/product management in a hands-on collaborative champion for a core Viken product line Program management: Participate in strategic planning for a portfolio of related projects aimed at achieving boarder strategic objectives Provide resource identification and management of development team to ensure success across activities within the product line Ensure development projects, changes, and releases occur in conformance with company guidelines/SOPs. Product management: Guide design, development, and production transition of related products within a product line. Translate product requirements into functional specifications. Own and manage risks and maintain risk considerations during all decisions. Manage timeline and strategic prioritization to fast-track development activities Maintain voice of customer throughout the product design process. Responsible for curating comprehensive test plans (with input from core design team). Ensuring resulting verification and validation processes complete, fully documented, and accurate and meet the product specifications Lead product tollgate transitions from concept to production and ensures required inputs and outputs are present Project management: Provide tactical focused management of individual smaller scale projects within a product line Balance various aspects of a project (cost, risk, resources, skill, etc) to identify the optimal solutions Provide clear tracking and status on various activities to the team and upper management Work with manufacturing to provide guidance, training and troubleshooting support during pilot build and beyond. Manage ongoing improvement efforts and sustaining activities for products within the related product line Maintain agile, open, and positive communication across the development and operations teams to serve as the glue of the extended product line teams Leverage “standup/huddles” as needed to prioritize drive execution on key tasks Foster solution focused collaborative work with a can do attitude Lead recurring status meetings and maintaining organizational trackers for key deliverables and activities Regularly communicate up the chain to higher level management Drive ongoing improvements within the product line based on quality metrics/data from production and field Be the “Point person” for gathering information, driving issue to root cause, and selecting appropriate actions Gather needed engineering skillsets and other support to drive solutions to completion Prioritize and help drive current improvements to fruition. Requirements: Required Skills and Experience Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (EE preferred) 5+ years as design, systems, or manufacturing engineer 2+ years in project, product, or program management preferred Experience with ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) or adjacent technology preferred. In Addition, We Value Customer Focused – Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers. Technical – Understands engineering and project management principles with experience in the use of project management systems (e.g., MS Project) Agent for Change – not satisfied with the status quo, willing to take strong and effective action to effectively manage capital investments and committed to continuous improvement recommend and develop innovative processes Strong interpersonal skills Self-starter, results driven, anticipates and implements solutions Strong people leadership, including mentoring and coaching skills Excellent verbal and written communication skills Demonstrated problem solving and analytical skills