Engineering Project Manager

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Provide structured project execution for cross functional projects while championing a culture of collaboration, inclusion, and accountability.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans with input from stakeholders and team members. Establish action items, due dates, dependencies, and people responsible.
• Lead project team meetings, driving accountability among project team members to complete their required activities on time.
• Manage critical path, risks, and issues. Raise issues to project stakeholders quickly, identify mitigating actions and develop recovery plan.
• Own all project communication, including weekly project status meetings, weekly email status updates, and all stakeholder communications, effectively communicating to management project progress, risks, and mitigation plans.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience with a minimum of 2 years of experience in Project Management, preferably in a manufactured-product development, engineer-to-order (ETO), configure-to-order (CTO), or machine design environment
• Associates degree in a technical or manufacturing field or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality projects on time
• Proficiency with implementing and/or improving processes

Must be comfortable:

• Leading through influence while driving accountability across the project team to deliver
• Creating an inclusive, collaborative, customer-focused environment
• Working with globally dispersed sites
• Working with business leaders and team members on project timelines and problem resolution
• Strong communication skills with experience providing stakeholder project updates and communicating clear objectives with project team members
• Proficiency with project management tools and related technology
• Strong problem-solving skills with sound decision-making based on structured data analysis.
• Proficient in MS Office tools
• Ability to use collaboration tools such as team-based document control, video conferencing, scheduling meetings, conference calls, etc.
• Proficiency in managing external resources (suppliers, contracted service resources, etc.) to achieve project results
• Working knowledge of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in working in an ISO 9001 Product Development Process System is desired
• Desire to obtain PMP certification (or PMP certification holder)
• Working knowledge of Configure Price Quote (Oracle CPQ), Customer Relationship Management and Field Service (Salesforce), Enterprise Resource Planning (Oracle JDE ERP), and Smartsheet is desired
• Proficiency in translating business needs into technical requirements (bridging the gap between business and technical stakeholders)
• Plastics Processing Industry experience desired
• Experience in a Manufacturing environment is desired