Project Manager - Engineering

About the role

The Project Manager is responsible for leading and managing the portfolio of projects for the organization's engineering team from project intake and scoping through production. This leader must be able to effectively communicate cross-functionally and to all levels of the organization, including face-to-face updates to senior leaders. They should be able to lead their project teams to accomplish challenging goals. This leader must be passionate, hardworking and have a sense of urgency. In addition to leading projects, the Project Manager will work closely with the corporate PMO to define and implement project management process continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Understand business objectives and opportunities
• Manage new project intake process
• Lead cross functional project scoping
• Assess and communicate resource constraints
• Develop project charters to align project scope, schedule, budget, and KPI's (quality, cost, ROI, etc.) with project sponsors and stakeholders.
• Establishes and manages the project schedule. Assigns clear tasks to specific team members and ensures project deliverables are completed as planned and documented in PLM system.
• Leads project core team to ensure cross functional coordination of all project activities.
• Supports the preparation for and ensures the completion of design reviews.
• Leads preparation for and conducts project gate reviews.
• Manage project scope through disciplined use of change management process
• Manage Risk Register and Issues List. Transparently communicate issues and action plans. Effective and timely escalation of issues not able to be addressed within project team or established timing.
• Own project status reporting. Communicates project updates to senior leadership and stakeholders in monthly reviews.
• Role model for project management best practices