Technical Project Manager

Technical Project Manager

The Technical Project Manager is responsible for creating project plans, executing, managing work, tracking, reporting progress, communicating with stakeholders, training, and educating stakeholders, and continuously improving the various cross-functional processes for execution of projects in the Lancer Engineering department. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with the engineering resource managers, keep the team focused and motivated throughout the development and industrialization cycles, ensuring the on-time delivery of tasks as per approved plans.

Essential Functions

• Apply effective Project Management Techniques, tools and processes to deliver electromechanical modules, assemblies, and final products as per approve plans.
• Utilize Product Life Cycle (PLC) process, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and Enterprise Resource Management (ERP) to manage new products from inception to obsolescence.
• Motivate the team to deliver with quality and sense of urgency.
• Understand the product development flow, and proposed improvements.
• Take high-level requirements and map them into the appropriate development team resources with support from the engineering managers, to ensure successful delivery per approved plan.
• Keep the team focused and motivated throughout the development cycle, ensuring the on-time delivery of tasks as per the approved plans.
• Create and maintain project plans for the engineering teams.
• Manage outsourcing of development activities at engineering service provider, suppliers, and other partners.
• Maintain frequent and clear communication with managers and other stakeholders to communicate risks, highlight important changes to priorities, requirements, status, and impact to agreed plans.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Experience in project management of engineering products.
• Proven record for product delivery.
• System understanding of mechatronics projects (both hardware, firmware, and software).
• Good process background: Project management certification a plus (e.g. PMI or PDMA)
• Ability to understand systems specifications, test specifications, datasheets, charts, and reports.
• Ownership mentality, desire to deliver top quality at right cost, first time right.
• Highly motivated, desire to solve problems and succeed (self-starter and driven).
• Excellent written and oral communications skills, ability to provide project planning with sound technical trade-off arguments.
• Good team player who works well in a multi-discipline, multi-cultural, technology and manufacturing environment.
• Led project team of 5-20 engineers, designers, and technicians, in-house and outsourced, geographically dispersed.
• Experience with electronic, mechanical, or mechatronics New Product Design/Introduction (NPI/D).
• Familiarity with stage gate methodologies.
• Familiarity with electronics, or mechanical, or mechatronics manufacturing ad operations.
• Knowledge about Engineering Change Management, Engineering Change Requests/Orders/Notices.
• Good Technical Presentation Skills. Experience presenting to executive leadership.
• Strong English communication skills, both written and oral. Spanish is a plus.
• Experience working in a project-oriented team.
• Ability to prioritize tasks in a fast pace and dynamic environment.
• Can observe and respond to people and situations and interact with others encountered in the course of work.
• Can learn and apply new information or skills.
• Must be able to read and interpret data, information, and documents.
• Strong customer focus and commitment to customer satisfaction through prioritization, quality, efficiency, and professionalism.
• Ability to complete assignments with attention to detail and high degree of accuracy.
• Proven ability to perform effectively in a demanding environment with changing workloads.
• Result driven-demonstrate ownership and accountability.
• Identifies bottlenecks and drives improvements.
• Work independently or as part of a team and follow through on assignments with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrate open, clear, concise and professional communication.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with co-workers and customer.
• Work according to a strict set of procedures within the provided timelines.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, copiers, filing cabinets. The employee is exposed to outside weather conditions if out in the manufacturing site. The noise level in the work environment is typically low to moderate.

Physical Demands

Ability to communicate verbally, view security systems, and monitor people entering/exiting the building, sitting, standing, walking, and bending as needed. Using proper lifting technique may be required to lift objects up to 25 lb. with assistance. May have to reach for objects at or above shoulder height. Must be to operate office equipment including computers, copiers, TVs, iPad, and telephones.

Education & Experience

• BS Engineering with a major in Electrical, Computer, Software, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Production, Industrial Engineering, or similar engineering fields. MS or MBA is a plus.
• 5+ years relevant design and/or project management experience with electronics, mechanical or mechatronics products. PMI or PDMA certification is a plus.