Project Manager

Project Manager

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline
• A minimum of 5-8 years industry experience, in an Engineering Project/Program Manager role working with large multinational companies, preferably with some background in silicon development and full hardware, software, and mechanical systems design.
• PMP or other accreditation and experience with the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) a plus.
• Proven success in leading cross functional teams through influence
• Strong planning and organizations skills; must be able to set and manage priorities, adapt to change, drive progress of activities, issues, risks, and deliverables to closure through close coordination with multiple groups.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to manage the detail to the target audience up, down, across, and out of the organization.
• Strong Knowledge of MS Office Tools.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with functional stakeholders such as Marketing, Engineering, and Manufacturing to develop a clear definition for the project that meets market requirements and internal company goals.
• Ensure that the appropriate level of due diligence is applied to the business justification for a project prior to the project entering the development phase.
• Develop the execution plan for the project. This includes working with functional leadership to build a schedule, staffing plan, risk analysis and mitigation plan, and budget in support of project goals.
• Oversee the successful execution of the plan: Manage the project bounding box; schedule, scope, budget and staffing, and additionally full factory cost (FFC) to ensure the project stays on track and within budgetary commitments. Continually evaluate project risks and take appropriate action to mitigate. Work closely with functional team leads to ensure project deliverables and dependencies are being met. Coordinate the day-to-day project activities, priorities, meetings and communications ensuring alignment across all cross functional teams while optimizing performance at a project level.
• Serve as the focal point for project communications. Compile regular project status for all stakeholders and effectively escalate critical issues and risks as necessary.
• Ensure the project is developed in compliance with specified internal, customer or industry standards, processes and procedures.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement by ensuring post-release lessons learned activities for the project are completed.
• Serve as a champion for advancing Project Management best practices and new methodology.
• Ensure that the project schedule is maintained and key project milestones of tapeout, samples and release date are achieved.
• Ensure that each development function (Electrical Engineering, Software Development, Mechanical Engineering, Product Evaluation, Test Engineering, Marketing, and others) and project stakeholders/contributors are aware of the key milestone commitments and all critical information and changes relating to the project through team meetings and other communication.
• Manage project change requests which may fundamentally impact the schedule and/or cost of the project.
• Track and record in PLE the performance of the project to key milestones.
• Ensure post-release review (AAR) of the project is completed as required.
• Work directly and closely with key customers, scheduling and chairing regular meetings and delivering project updates.
• Travel to customer sites for reviews as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with multi-site, multi-geographical development is desired.