Senior Project Management Engineer

For more than 80 years, our client’s engineers and product specialists have partnered with customers to produce highly engineered connectivity and sensing solutions that make a connected world possible. Their focus on reliability, durability, and sustainability exemplifies their commitment to progress. The unmatched range of their product portfolio enables companies, large and small, to turn ideas into technology that can transform how the world works and lives tomorrow.

Role Description: 

• This opportunity provides an excellent experience of Project Transitions/Transfer within client's Product Portfolio as well as provides an opportunity to work on New Project Industrializations.
• Reporting to the AD&M India Project Management Leader, the position holder will have primary responsibility for leading project transitions/transfers and New Project Industrializations. The Project Manager role position holder will drive the successful performance of multiple high profile/value projects following defined methods and processes to achieve commercial and efficiency targets set by the business.
• Developing relationships and maintaining a high-level of communication with cross-functional local/global teams will be critical to the role.
• You will be required to act as the primary owner of each project and to report progress to a senior leadership team on a regular cadence and at specific key Milestones during each Project.

Responsibilities:

The typical activities of the position will cover: 

• Project Scoping and Progress Reporting to Sr. Leadership through a defined Review Rhythm.
• Leading Cross Functional Meetings to assess Project Progress and liaison in resolving conflicts/issues.
• Risk Management and leadership of Risk Assessment activities • Timely Escalation of issues as applicable and utilisation of project change controls.
• Defining all necessary requirements for the Product(s) being developed by the project.
• Managing and being accountable for a project budget, liaising with procurement to ensure timely acquisition of goods and materials.
• Liaising with customers and Customers/Sales globally as applicable.

Requirements

• Strong interpersonal, negotiating and influencing skills and the ability to build strong, credible relationships with multiple organization functions (internal and external).
• Clear strategic thinker with the ability to execute on priorities.
• Self-motivated with the ability to perform in a demanding environment.
• Strong communication, negotiation and presentation skills including at senior level Results driven.
• A professional level of business acumen and good commercial understanding.
• Excellent organizational, time management and administrative skills.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills and the ability to disseminate critical information appropriately.
• Project Management Professional preferred (e.g. PMP, Prince 2).
• Agile Project Management experience, especially Agile/Waterfall combined projects is preferred, but not essential.
• Good level of IT capability with detailed experience of Microsoft Office (MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Flexibility and a willingness to travel.
• Technical and commercial education/ experience related to Engineering Manufacturing in a similar industry would be beneficial.