Program/Project Engineering Management Regional Director

Req ID: 128461 
Remote Position: Yes 
Region: Americas 
Country: USA 

General Overview

Job Title:   Director, Engineering Program/Project Management 1
Functional Area:  Engineering (ENG)
Career Stream: Engineering Program / Project Management (EPM)
Role:  Director 1 (DR1)
Job Code:  DR1-ENG-EPM
Job Band: 12
Direct/Indirect Indicator:  Indirect

Summary

Become a key member of our corporate ATS Design and Engineering Services team, join a multinational and multicultural environment. Be responsible for leading a regional team project managers and working with site functional management teams, driving the development, implementation, and evaluation of complex designs and large projects with complex scope, multiple streams of work and inter-dependencies. Ensuring the team is executing projects according to the defined PMO process reporting project health metrics according to the defined rubric and maintaining the relevant project related files.

Detailed Description

•    Participate in expanding/defining and refining the PMO process
•    Lead and inspire our PM team, guiding and fostering their growth. Demonstrating ability to grow cross functional team members by identifying development opportunities. You will assist in resource planning, assign project management ownership for quotes and projects, effectively hire and train project managers to support the market/site strategic plan and continuously provide coaching and mentoring to the project management team to ensure career development.
•    Be responsible of the delivery in design and build of new and innovative products and/or systems. You will manage strategic visibility programs (multiple projects per program) of high complexity (technology, organizationally) to meet or exceed programs objectives (Cost, Quality, Schedule, Customer Specific Needs, etc.). You will oversight for all active quotes/proposals and projects/programs within the design center.
•    Drive consistency and standardization of project management good practices across the design team. Ensure PMO team members following governance/review policies
•    Interface and reporting with customers and stakeholders both internal and external. Leading meetings with customers, business leaders, partners, etc. You will develop and leverage senior level relationships with external customers and internal partners (Sales, Operations, etc.) to drive customer success while also meeting the financial and strategic goals of Celestica.
•    Support our front-end commercial team as a technical interface to solidify new opportunities.
•    Have shared ownership with the site leadership team on the design center P&L while accountable to specific project P&Ls. You will keep focus on project delivery, quality, and financial performance and support project forecasting for future resource allocation planning and ensuring predictable financial commitments.
•    You will be part of our development's team global program management network where you will influence our program management competency across our global development network
•    Have the opportunity to grow and unlock all of your potential

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

In summary, you will take the challenge of become a key part in the interaction with customer’s technical teams at the same time ensuring the success of the Design and Engineering Services Team!

•    Become a key member in the electronics industry, driven by innovation where creativity matters
•    Celestica offers a global, collaborative culture with strong leadership imperatives to foster your growth and professional opportunities
•    We are focused on sustainability and provide opportunities for employees to give back to the community

The work atmosphere is excellent and totally open, a positive attitude constitutes a warranty for the integration in the team, not only at a professional level but also personally. Personal skills such as teamwork, initiative, accountability and meticulousness on every assigned task will be extremely valued as well as, obviously, the motivation to learn and continuously improve.
What do we expect from you?

•    Leadership attitude. Demonstrate people and team leadership behaviors and experience with focus in people development and coaching.
•    Proven experience (proficiency) technical project management. Ability to manage/lead complex, multiple line engineering projects that may also involve other functions. Demonstrate solid understanding of the technical, financial and people aspects of the project.
•    Demonstrate experience in different project environments, managing different frameworks and techniques (PMP, Agile…) as required
•    Proven experien