Engineering Project Manager

About the role

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Responsibilities

• Lead higher complexity projects which require larger degree of functional or business unit expertise.
• Facilitate Business reviews, team meetings, Gemba Walks, Kaizen Events, Value Stream mapping sessions etc, maintain project status and update documents, interpret data, and contribute to the financial modeling of project impacts.
• Career Development: Coordinate the implementation and control efforts with larger interdependent projects to ensure forecasted benefits are achieved and sustained. Liaison closely with Money Belts for financial validation. Support expansion of Continuous Improvement through leading training classes for Project Leads and Green Belts across organization as well as coaching at project lead level.
• Presentation: Present business solutions effectively with senior management and other stakeholders regarding project status, issues, execution and accomplishments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science or related field.
• Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt certification, preferred.
• 5-10 years overall work experience.
• Currently hold or demonstrate ability to rapidly gain high proficiency in Lean and/or Six Sigma principles as well as delivery methodologies.
• Ability to consider new perspectives to solve complex problems. Seen as an expert in functional, discipline or business unit area.
• Influential leadership, strong team facilitation capabilities. Demonstrated ability to get results through others and remove barriers to execution.
• Independently build effective working relationships with all colleagues, customers and business partners.
• Demonstrate effective ability to teach and train C.I. courses to internal candidates.
• Capacity to meet deadlines and satisfy customers with multiple and conflicting priorities.
• Ability to facilitate more intricate cross-functional process improvement teams.
• Articulate well.
• Very strong aptitude to collect, analyze and interpret both qualitative and quantitative data. Demonstrate excellent analytical, root cause analysis, problem solving, and decision-making skills.
• Proficiency with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Mini-Tab required MS Access and statistical software experience preferred.

Qualifications

This position can be based out of our locations in Morrisville, PA, Pittsburgh, PA, Jamestown, NC or Providence, RI. This is a hybrid position.

Skills

• Project Management
• Lean and Six Sigma Principles
• Process Improvement Tools
• Financial Modeling
• Team Leadership
• Communication Skills
• Data Analysis

Benefits

Available employee benefits include health, vision, dental coverage, along with industry-leading retirement and time off programs; union benefits vary in accordance with the respective CBA.

Pay

The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate’s relevant experience, education, training, certifications, qualifications, and work location.

Schedule

This position is a hybrid position.