Engineering Project Manager

Engineering Project Manager

Robotic Warehouse Automation

• Moorestown, NJ USA
• Full time / Permanent
• Base salary + Health and retirement benefits.
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Responsibilities

The Engineering Project Manager 1 will be involved in electrical, mechanical, and software engineering deliverables, as well as collaborating with Manufacturing and Production business partners. The ideal candidate will be expected to clearly communicate with engineering, business partners and executive leadership. This role will also be expected to

• Deliver small to mid-sized global projects with the objective of being in-scope, on-budget, on-schedule, and consistent with quality standards and high customer satisfaction from pre-sales to post ‘go live’.
• Ensure that project scope is clearly defined and communicated consistently and effectively.
• Drive effective status updates to commitments across the organization through effective communication plans.
• Develop accurate project schedules by identifying dependent and parallel task durations, and owners to provide timelines.
• Ensure that effective project change control is established for each project as organizational processes mature.
• Manage project risk mitigation planning and escalate critical risks appropriately.
• Identify, assess, track project issues to closer.
• Ensure milestone dates are met; evaluate impact change request against communicated timelines.
• Identify bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate, and manage tradeoffs, and balance business needs with technical constraints.
• Excel in a matrix managed organization; lead by influence without formal authority.

Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of Technical/Engineering Software Products and/or Project Management experience.
• 5+ years' experience working with electrical, mechanical and software Engineering teams.
• Bachelor’s Degree in IT/ Business / Engineering / Computer Science
• Demonstrates servant leadership qualities and is comfortable with "fail fast", learn, and to rapidly iterate towards a solution.
• Demonstrated ability to own an assignment and see it through to completion; detailed oriented and good with ‘follow-through’.
• Dynamic strategic planning and organizational skills in Agile and Waterfall environments.
• Exceptional active listening, presentation, interpersonal, and written communication skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft tools: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio
• Ability to travel when necessary (up to 25%) or be local to the main office in Moorestown NJ
• Experience with Atlassian tools: Jira, Confluence and Advance Roadmaps is a plus
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) a plus
• Experience in manufacturing, material handling and/or warehouse automation a plus