Senior Engineering Project Manager - Advanced Projects

TS / SCI Senior Engineering Project Manager - Advanced Projects

Requires : ACTIVE Top Secret / Secret Clearance

Location : Onsite, Grand Rapids MI

Job Description

As a Senior Engineer Engineering Project Management you will play a vital role in leading a team of passionate and skilled engineers who share your vision of creating innovative solutions. You will be accountable for delivering the agreed project scope within the committed cost, schedule and quality as well as provide oversight and leadership to the engineering team to meet customer and business expectations. To succeed in this position, you will need a background in project management, a keen eye for detail, and desire to learn in a fast-paced environment. You will also need to demonstrate an ability to take full ownership of your role as a key partner driving for team success.

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Lead planning and execution of multiple New Product Introduction (NPI) and New Technology Introduction (NTI) projects delivering an aligned project delivery scope within the original schedule, budget to meet customer expectations and achieve tollgate milestones.
• Organize, motivate, and guide cross functional Integrated Product Develop Teams (IPDT) toward completion of objectives within given constraints.
• Apply project management acumen to delineate scope, protecting company-developed intellectual property for competitive advantage.
• Define the engineering scope statement and work breakdown structure for the project in collaboration with the program manager (PM), technical leads and project stakeholders.
• Forecast resource requirements for project execution and delivery.
• Engage and build relationships with functional leaders to negotiate resource allocation meeting project needs.
• Routinely report to senior leadership on technical performance, project budget, schedule, scope, and risk.
• Manage and coordinate internal- or external- driven scope change requests.
• Support engineering response effort for customer and internal B&P requests.
• Provide support to the PM in all engineering aspects of external customer interaction, including change liability and cost negotiation, scope, and schedule negotiation.
• Drive pro-active and creative risk mitigation approaches to minimize technical debt and risk to delivery.
• Assure proper documentation of technical data is generated for the assigned projects and is consistent with engineering policies and procedures.
• Streamline engineering processes to cost effectively execute advanced product programs.
• Use judgment and propose solutions outside of set parameters to address complex manufacturing processes with technical variety and interdependent production cycles.
• Apply technical experience and analytical thinking, utilizing multiple internal and limited external sources to make decisions.
• Act as a resource for less experienced colleagues and may lead small projects with low risks and resource requirements.
• Drive weekly and monthly operating reviews using GE's FLIGHT DECK LEAN standards.
• Drive for adoption of FLIGHT DECK LEAN initiatives within the project

Required Qualifications :

Desired Characteristics :

Notes : Sr. Project Manager

Team consists of FPGA, Embedded Engineers, PCBs.

Education

Bach Degree

10+ years of experience