Director, Pmo & Shared Engineering Services

Role: Director, PMO & Shared Engineering Services

Location:  Fairport, NY; Mississauga, Ontario or Glasgow, Scotland

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

In this role, you will lead a team of Program managers & Engineering Leaders who use Agile Development Methods and the Scrum Framework to deliver critical, customer facing, enterprise system solutions. You will continuously improve our processes using Fortive Business System to make our teams highly productive. Champion the adoption of advanced engineering practices such as continuous gradual integration, test driven development, and automated validation & verification.

Responsibilities include fostering collaboration across global business and technology organizations, providing sound analysis and change leadership. Build and maintain strong relationships with our partners and project teams to ensure the delivery of quality products and services align with global strategies. You will build extraordinary teams, hiring top talent and keeping the organization highly engaged and motivated to deliver exceptional results. 

Here’s where you’ll demonstrate your proficiencies: 

• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to develop excellent solutions for our global customers

• Work with the executive team to develop project portfolio roadmaps that align with business objectives/priorities and consider resource availability.

• Lead the overall plan, implementation, tracking and managing cost, schedule and scope for all projects in the portfolio.

• Own project portfolio activities, conduct reviews, assess risk, standardize processes, and address roadblocks.

• Coach and mentor teams on Agile/Scrum/Lean principles and career development.

Skills & Experience

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:   

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in a Science or Engineering related field. MBA is a plus.

• 10+ years of professional Program and Project Management experience in a high tech environment.

• Expertise in lean portfolio program management, Agile and Scrum framework, and Lean product development practices.

• Strong independent and motivated self-starter with the ability to be a strategic problem solver with focus on details at the same time.

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. 

At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating. 

Fortive: For you, for us, for growth. 

Ready to move your career forward? Find out more at careers.fortive.com.

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 process should ask to speak with a Human Resources representative to request an accommodation.

National: The salary range for this position is $164500 - $305500

Base pay offered may vary depending on various factors, including, but not limited to: job-related knowledge; skills; experience; and other eligibility factors such as geographic location. The Total Rewards package includes competitive base pay and an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and several programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.