Project Manager/Program Manager

The Project Engineer is accountable for the design of Engineering projects with top-down oversight from inception (Proposal) to completion (Customer Buy off).

He/she must ensure that all projects are prepared and completed safely adhering to the required standards, customer and municipal specifications, budget, timeline and scope. Works with all business unit functions in support of project goals and requirements.

Main areas of responsibilities are:

• Change management: develop ECs with clear cost, delivery impact, and expiration date. Negotiate ECs securing customer concurrence, in cost scope and delivery.
• Team Building and Coaching: facilitate and develop a productive and cohesive project team, manage conflict resolution.
• Time management (schedule): formulate a detailed execution-timing plan, including critical path timing, mitigation timing plans, with constant updating, improvement, and follow-up.
• Manage all customer communication including but not restricted to, phone conversation note's meeting minutes, documenting and communicating all appropriate verbal communication, customer runoff documentation, cost information, Engineering Changes (ECs) content cost and schedule impact, customer timing reporting, open issues lists and actions.
• Integrate in the project team the activity of the Technical Leader, Supply Chain Leader, Site Manager and other team members, for an effective management of the customer technical reviews, buyoffs, procurement process and site activities.
• Pursue Customer satisfaction
• Manage accounts receivable totals related to project and minimize overdue.
• Manage Cost Budget and given Cost targets
• Accountable for Profitability, Timing and Quality of projects
• Risk management: identify risk and opportunities, and develop risk mitigation plans and actions plans to realize opportunities.
• Managing/coordinating the project team (people assigned to the Project by the other departments)
• Monitor project activities for compliance to company policies and processes. Manage and maintain master project documentation or project binder in real time
• Maintain timely budget updates based on scope of work changes, optimizing project execution improvements.
• Scope management: builds the project Work Breakdown Structure, to ensure that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.
• Evaluate and completely understand contractual deliverables, in content and contractual obligations.

Basic Qualifications

• 20%-40% Business Travel
• 5 or more years' experience in automation industry or automotive company
• Bachelor's degree in automation, engineering or business or equivalent Bachelors Degree