Engineering Project Manager

Position Overview  

An Engineering Project Manager is accountable for successful outcomes on complex integrated test, measurement, or automation systems for delivery to our customers.  They spend most of their time developing, driving and monitoring to a project plan, with strong emphasis on communication management.  They are deeply involved in all aspects of the projects, ensuring their accountability for the business and technical success of the solution.  The successful Engineering Project Manager is efficiency-driven, looking for ways to improve project timelines and cost without sacrificing quality or customer satisfaction.  

Organization  

The Engineering Project Manager will be a part of a highly qualified, growing team and lead the definition, development, and delivery of custom integrated test systems for some of NI’s largest customers. They are instrumental in helping the team evolve and expand by creating and refining tools and processes and influencing specialization areas, therefore, experience communicating with various customers and clients from sole contributor to Executive across multiple fields - Engineering, Sales, Clients will be valued. Their ability to quickly build credibility and trust for effective collaboration towards mutual outcomes will drive success. 

In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be: 

• Create project plans that drive successful, measurable project execution: Ensure technical feasibility, financial viability, risk assessment and schedule are well understood by customers.  Identify and document customer requirements. Work with project teams to define technical solutions. Create a work breakdown structure to plans budget and routinely reassess as needed.  Actively lead risks to identify changes and mitigation strategies.  Clearly communicate all schedule constraints and project achievements. 

• Act as the single point of contact for the project: Develop project communication plans and ensure execution to the plan, resulting in professional and consistent communication with the customer and other partners. Effectively negotiate scope and schedule changes. Accurately identify and communicate internal and external customers’ needs. Organize and facilitate project reviews that ensure key collaborators are presented with accurate and concise information to make decisions.  

• Influence others to ensure successful delivery: Frequently collaborate with other departments such as manufacturing, R&D, operations, quality and sales. Lead with influence to ensure the success of your projects and set the stage for future success of your next project working with these customers.  Develop a sense of urgency in customers while also building a solid foundation for future collaboration. 

• Lead project analysis on resource, schedule & budget planning and risk assessment: Monitor and report out to customers on project costs, status, quality; call out issues when necessary. Evaluate changes that substantially impact the scope, budget, or schedule of projects and drive decisions on these changes. 

• Collaborate with resource managers to ensure appropriate staffing on projects: Influence and make decisions about scope, schedule, and resources.  

• Drive process and tool improvement efforts: Drive continuous improvement through successful lessons learned activities that result in appropriate process or tool changes.  Lead initiatives to help the organization operate more efficiently and effective.  Be passionate about continuous improvement. 

• Manage and give direction to other project managers and project coordinators: Ensure adherence to development processes and standard methodologies. Review work quality and provide mentorship to other project managers/coordinators. Act as a subject matter expert in one or more key areas, such as customer, application or tool/process expertise. 

For This Role, You Will Need: 

• A PMP or PMI-ACP certification, or be able to attain one within 6 months of hire.   

• A minimum of at least 5 years’ experience leading and directing customer-facing engineering projects. 

• Experience in managing customer-facing solution delivery with strong communication skills, presentation skills and negotiation skills   

• A Bachelor’s degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) subject area or equivalent work experience.  

• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 20% of the time. 

• Demonstrated technical and executive communication skills. 

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