Projects Engineer

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, executing 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 experienced, growing team and manage 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 stakeholders and clients from sole contributor to Executive across multiple disciplines - 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 stakeholders.  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 manage risks to identify changes and mitigation strategies.  Clearly communicate all schedule constraints and project milestones. 

• 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 stakeholders. Effectively negotiate scope and schedule changes. Accurately identify and communicate internal and external customers’ needs. Organize and facilitate project reviews that ensure key stakeholders 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, opera