Technical Project Leader in Taunton

Our mission at Corza Medical is to champion surgical providers with remarkable service and exceptional products that save time, money, and effort. We are a passionate team guided by our core belief that you should never have to choose between performance, value, and a quality customer experience. We are here to support you every step of the way.

Our brand promise:

• We deliver a collaborative experience by working directly with the surgical community to ensure you get the exact surgical tools you need at the right time and the right price.
• Remarkable service: A seamless, personal process designed around you and your needs.
• Trusted performance: Our product family is the result of years of experience championing surgeons and listening to their expertise.
• Outstanding value: No matter the surgical specialty, we deliver quality products for all markets.

Our people promise:

Excellence is our Specialty and what makes us successful is our people. We are committed to fostering a positive, empowering and growth-oriented environment where all team members are encouraged to share their opinions and ideas. That means you will work alongside an accomplished and highly collaborative team that inspires commitment to our goal in attaining excellence in everything they do.

Job Purpose Summary:

The Technical Project Leader is responsible for leading innovative medical device development projects, from concept through to commercialisation. This includes coordinating and directing the technical elements of product development, utilising subject matter experts as appropriate, and applying project management principles to maintain control over scope, plans, budgets, risks and resources. They have strong communication skills to maintain stakeholder engagement, ensure alignment with business objectives and compliance with quality and regulatory standards.

What You Will Do:

• Project Planning and Timeline Control: Develops and maintains detailed project plans and consistently achieves milestones on time. Uses project management tools (such as Gantt charts and software packages like Smartsheet/MS Project) to track deliverables, dependencies and overall progress. Keeps projects on track with timely communication and transparency regarding any emerging changes or delays.
• Communication and Stakeholder Engagement: Manages communication with project teams, internal stakeholders, senior leadership and external partners. Provides clear and concise progress updates, maintains project dashboards and facilitates decision-making forums and reviews. Promotes visibility, alignment and confidence in project direction and outcomes.
• Risk and Budget Control: Identifies, assesses and mitigates project risks while creating and managing project budgets. Maintains risk registers, implements mitigation plans and monitors expenditures (OPEX & CAPEX spend). Minimises project uncertainty and ensures financial control.
• Quality, Regulatory, and Compliance Oversight: Coordinates project activities to ensure compliance with relevant medical device quality and regulatory requirements (e.g. ISO 13485). Follows all internal Quality Management System procedures and integrates design control, good documentation practice and regulatory input at each phase of the project. Ensures that materials and medical devices are safe, effective and compliant with international standards.
• Continuous Improvement and Team Development: Supports continuous process improvements throughout the Project Governance Process. Regularly evaluates project performance, including Lessons Learnt workshops, and suggests updates to tools and templates. Builds stronger project management capability within Corza and fosters a culture of continuous improvement.

What You Will Need:

• Critical Knowledge: Project Management Principles: Understanding of project management methodologies, tools and frameworks. Financial and Resource Management: Experience of budgeting, cost control and resource allocation within technical projects. Technical Capability: Technical foundation in engineering or science, with excellent analytical skills and the ability to grasp new concepts quickly. Product Development: Understanding of product development lifecycle, ideally within medical devices or a similar regulated industry, including design controls, verification & validation and gate reviews. Quality Systems: Familiarity working within quality management systems, risk management and good documentation practices.
• Core Competencies: Leadership and Collaboration: Without direct authority, builds and organises collaborative, cross-functional project teams to achieve business goals. Communication and Stakeholder Engagement: Translate complex scientific and engineering concepts, data and issues into concise written and verbal communications to effectively engage stakeholders, project teams and external partners. Time Management: Organised and effectively balances competing priorities across multiple projects, adjusting resources and schedules to maintain progress. Risk and Problem Solving: Skilled at identifying and mitigating risks and resolving complex project issues. Analytical and Decision-Making Skills: Able to analyse complex data, interpret trends and make informed project decisions.
• Technical / PC Skills: Project management software: Smartsheet, MS Project or equivalent. Office productivity tools: Excel (advanced), PowerPoint, Word, Teams, Outlook. Data analysis and reporting: Ability to use digital project dashboards, KPIs trackers and progress reports.
• Education and Experience: Engineering or scientific degree in relevant field. Formal Project Management qualification (Project Management Professional (PMP), PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent) advantageous. Agile or Scrum Master qualification advantageous. 2+ years’ managing technical projects, ideally in medical devices or similar regulated industries. Experience delivering New Product Development/Introduction projects through a stage-gate process.

What We Value:

• Customer First - We deliver extraordinary experiences.
• Accountability - We do what we say.
• Integrity - We do what is right.
• Inspired - We love what we do.
• One Global Team - We before me, always.

Join us today and Excel@Corza!

Corza Medical is an equal opportunity employer. Corza Medical evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, marital status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran status or other protected characteristics.