Engineering Project Manager
San Antonio, TX 78219 US
Job Description
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead program review and status meetings and communicates project status
- Motivate and drive the program team to ensure optimal performance
- Ensure products are launched on time, within budget and meet all quality metrics
- Provide leadership to cross-functional teams of Design Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing Engineering, Lean Engineering, Sales, and third-party partners in executing new product introduction projects or enhancements
- Effectively mitigate project risks and create opportunities for project execution enhancements
- Execute the NPI process through all stage gates and meet overall schedule
- Coordinate the resolution of issues between business functions to drive overall project process
- Ensure material is available to support all development builds
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Operate with a deep sense of ownership and urgency at every stage of the new product development process
- Knowledge of program management approaches, tools, and methodologies
- Facilitate cross-functional project team gate and launch assessments and utilize root cause analysis tools to determine lessons learned and lay out counter measures for future projects
- Experience with PC based Project Management documentation tools including MS Project or equivalent
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelor s degree in an technical discipline or equivalent work experience
- 2 + years of experience in a Technical Project Management role or equivalent
- Demonstrated working knowledge within technical engineering design/manufacturing business units
- Basic knowledge of manufacturing techniques, CNC operations and acquisition of tooling
Preferred Qualifications
- 5 + years of experience in a Project Manager role or equivalent
- PMP certified 2+ years experience with lighting product development
- General knowledge of castings (die and investment), forgings, plastic injection moldings, extrusions, machining, heat sink design, sheet metal, surface treatments (powder coating, painting, plating), stamping, drawing including tooling lead times
- Basic knowledge in light sources and LED Technologies, including LEDs, COBs, PCBs, Drivers, Control Systems, thermal management (simulation and testing)
- Strong and proven experience with driving development of electro-mechanical products utilizing medium volume manufacturing domestically and/or overseas
- SolidWorks CAD experience.
- Experience presenting to C-level stakeholders
Working Environment:
- Smoke free workplace
For a Confidential Conversation regarding this outstanding career opportunity please contact: Roy Campbell | 210.541.0471 or to apply please send your resume to roy.Campbell@lkjordan.Com
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