Project Manager

Essential Duties

• Track and monitor engineering and cross-functional projects to ensure alignment with scope, schedule, budget, and performance expectations.
• Develop, maintain, and update project schedules, timelines, and key milestones in coordination with internal teams and customers.
• Lead cross-functional team meetings and project status reviews; communicate project status, risks, and updates to stakeholders at all levels.
• Identify, track, and resolve project issues using structured problem-solving methods, and support effective change management processes.
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Technical Skills

• Knowledge of APQP and project management techniques, including critical path method (CPM) for schedule development, dependency mapping, and float analysis.
• A solid understanding of financial analysis concepts and budget management.
• Strong Microsoft 365 environment and presentation skills.
• Familiarity with ERP systems.
• Familiarity with project management software.
• Experience managing concurrent, diverse project portfolios in a high-mix, low-volume (HMLV) environment, with the ability to rapidly context-switch across projects of varying scope, urgency, and complexity.

Behavioral Skills

• Excellent organizational leadership and follow-up skills; competent in problem solving, team building, planning, and decision making; demonstrates appropriate urgency and initiative when completing assignments and other responsibilities.
• Focused on exceeding expectations and comfortable with working independently.
• A proactive individual who drives change and seeks opportunities for improvement.
• Takes ownership and delivers as both leader and member in a winning and supportive team environment.
• Ability to successfully function in a matrix style of management, managing a variety of cross-functional team members.
• Comfortable presenting project status, risks, and recommendations directly to senior leadership.
• Experience managing challenging negotiations and achieving the desired outcome.

Experience And Education

• 5-7 years of experience as a Project Manager, preferably in a high-mix, low-volume (HMLV) manufacturing or engineering environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, operations, or other related area.
• PMP certification or equivalent preferred.
• Preferred experience with both Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and Waterfall project management methodologies, including critical path method scheduling and earned value management.