Project Manager

Job TitleProject Manager
Job Description
The Innovation Project Manager 60 is responsible for executing multi-disciplinary projects, ensuring alignment with timelines, budgets, and resource constraints, potentially overseeing projects, resolving issues creatively and selecting appropriate methods for solutions, fostering effective team collaboration, delegating tasks, leveraging strengths, and ensuring clear communication, working under limited supervision. The role demonstrates customer centricity by understanding customer needs, incorporating feedback, and ensuring solutions meet requirements, builds strong relationships with stakeholders, managing expectations and ensuring alignment on objectives. The role delivers business impact through innovative solutions supporting organizational goals, while continuous improvement is ensured by seeking skill enhancement opportunities, and sharing knowledge.
Job Responsibilities:
• Executes multi-disciplinary projects, independently managing innovation projects, and ensuring alignment with agreed timelines, budgets, and resource constraints.
• Prepares and implements complex projects within agreed-upon specifications, timelines, budgets, and staffing, managing a project team as part of a larger initiative to deliver key parts of a main end-to-end process.
• Executes improvement projects, resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways, demonstrating good judgment in selecting methods initiating change and driving improvements within the discipline, working under limited supervision.
• Resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways, demonstrating good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Develops a broad knowledge of project management methodologies, relevant organizational structures, and end-to-end processes, applying advanced planning methods and estimation techniques (resources, time, and risk) specific to the design discipline.
• Provides effective team collaboration by fostering a positive and inclusive team environment, motivating and guiding team members from diverse backgrounds, effectively delegating tasks, leveraging individual strengths, and ensuring clear communication across all project phases.
• Ensures customer centricity by demonstrating a deep understanding of customer needs throughout the project lifecycle, incorporating customer feedback into project iterations, and ensuring the final solution effectively addresses identified needs.
• Builds strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders including clients, subcontractors, and senior management, proactively managing expectations, addressing concerns, and ensuring all parties are aligned on project objectives.
• Delivers business impact by driving projects that deliver innovative solutions with tangible benefits for the organization (e.g., new business processes, product enhancements, or supporting short-term business goals).
• Ensures continuous improvement by constantly seeking opportunities to improve project management skills and team processes, utilizing PMBok and SAFe guidelines to guide project execution, and actively participating in knowledge-sharing initiatives within the organization.
• Documents project knowledge by developing and maintaining comprehensive project documentation, capturing lessons learned and best practices for future reference and knowledge transfer.
• Cultivates effective relationships, shares knowledge, and provides influence over projects and peer groups, demonstrating full understanding of area of specialization.
Minimum required Education:
Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Information Technology, Business Administration, Project Management, Program Management or equivalent.
Minimum required Experience:
Minimum 2 years of experience with Bachelor's in areas such as Portfolio Management, Innovation Management, Project and Program Management or equivalent OR no prior experience required with Master's Degree.
Preferred Skills:
• Continuous Improvement
• Stakeholder Management
• Risk Management
• Data Analysis & Interpretation
• Business Acumen
• People Management
• Agile Methodology
• Troubleshooting
• Resource Planning & Allocation
• Quality Assurance (QA)
• Budget Management
• Requirements Gathering
• Technical Acumen
How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.
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