Full Time
USA
Posted 1 year ago

The Engineering Project Manager develops and maintains program schedules and tracks deliverables to ensure New Product Development activities are carried out in accordance with established specifications, schedules, and budgets. This position plays a key role in managing expectations and priorities to both internal and external customers.  The successful candidate will coordinate with multiple cross-functional departments in order to efficiently allocate resources, manage risks, develop attainable schedules, and clarify requirements as needed.

In addition, the Project Manager will coordinate and implement design changes and improvements to previously released products. In this function, the role will require close collaboration with manufacturing, purchasing, production planning, and engineering.

Due to the highly technical nature of our business, this position requires a strong background in engineering to better assess risks, mitigations, and communication across the project team. The ideal candidate should be creative, self-motivated, able to handle multiple projects, and able to thrive in a fast-paced engineering organization.

Job Responsibilities: 

  • Create and maintain complex schedules for multiple engineering activities. Identify critical path activities, key deliverables, key risks and mitigations, relationships, and constraints for projects to allow schedule and resource predictability.
  • Translate customer needs into engineering requirements as appropriate with the engineering, manufacturing, and marketing teams.
  • Coordinate with engineering and manufacturing management to set priorities and allocate resources to efficiently meet delivery commitments.
  • Drive project team meetings to review status, identify issues, and plan future actions.
  • Interface with internal and external customers to ensure they are informed and updated of program statuses, delays, and deliverables.
  • Coordinate the efforts of the Engineering, Sales and Production departments to ensure programs are conducted in accordance with the requirements of sales orders and budgets.
  • Lead multi-functional activities in processing engineering changes and coordinate scheduling, materials, engineering, and production for effective implementation. Develop, track and report key metrics for projects and changes
  • Generate and maintain change control documentation.
  • Work to insure consistency across Service Portal, ERP, PLM/PDM systems
  • Independently anticipates potential schedule delays and initiate plans for alternative actions as needed; able to rearrange competing priorities to ensure all deadlines are met
  • Update senior management on program status and issues on a regular basis
  • Ability to travel as needed to carry out duties of the position – up to 20% Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment and multi-task
  • May perform other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience: 

  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field of study
  • Minimum of three (3) years program management experience in an engineering field. PMP preferred but not required.
  • Experience in a customer facing environment is required.
  • Working knowledge of bill of material (BOM) structure as it relates to product life cycle management or materials resource planning systems.
  • Dynamic interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate with diverse audiences and stakeholders.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office: Word, PowerPoint, Project, Excel, and Outlook
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Exceptional organizational skills
  • Demonstrated analytical abilities with strong attention to detail
  • Teamwork oriented and focused. Must be driven and self-motivated with excellent follow through.
  • Ability to manage complex projects and multi-task effectively.

How to apply?

Contact Marika Ruszkowska at marika.ruszkowska@boss-energy.co.uk

Job Features

Job Category

Other companies/organisations jobs

Deadline

30-04-2023