Engineer Project Leader III

Key Responsibilities:

• Project management of 3 to 5 NPD/VAVE/Cost out projects from IPS Segment by interacting with different divisions and cross functional global teams.
• Deliver excellent project results supported by 90% Gate Exit OTD, 100% Gate Exit Process checklist adherence, and zero deliverable exceptions at Stage Gate Exit.
• Develop into a NPD/VAVE Process SME (power user) to aid in coaching your project team and share best practices with fellow Project Leaders within the India COE.
• Leverage a Continuous Improvement mindset in daily work to recommend incremental VAVE process/tool improvements while completing monthly/quarterly PMO Roadmap CI’s.
• Maintain and publish the tracker showing status of NPD, VA/VE, MCO, and Sustaining Engineering projects to all members to engineering & upper management.
• Person to be flexible to work with good overlap with global time zones.
• Accountable for projects success and budgets while being the single point of contact within the business for the project.
• Learn, practice and coach the application of the CFI (Customer Focused Innovation) Process to prepare detailed project plans, facilitate Gate Exits and communicate project status.
• An expert of indirect people management that provides a vision of success that motivates the team while collaborating across all departments to influence the supporting functions to achieve common goals.
• Challenges traditional methods of thinking to ensure the project value is real, sustainable and creates a long-term benefit for our customers and our company.
• Lead problem solving (5 Whys, 8D, fishbone) and counter measure development.
• Controls project work to align with the approved project scope. Ensures scope change policies are enforced.
• Designs and deploys Visual Management to track project status and key metrics. Utilizes multiple levels of planning and management tools to reinforce accountability and clarify individual ownership.
• Ability to independently manage projects with the discipline to consistently focus on top priorities.

Professional Experience/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical engineering.

• 10+ years’ experience in leading NPD/VAVE projects in Industrial products.
• PMP Certification with Project Management Institute (PMI) will be an added advantage
• Experience working closely with Engineering, SCM, Marketing and Product management during the project
• Initiation of the project including market analysis, customer VOC, creation of customer requirements, marketing requirements document, feasibility analysis, and the business case, preferred.
• Ability to apply financial and business acumen to daily decisions.
• Experience with schedule tool MS Project (and others), proficient with the MS Office package.
• Experience with APQP, Design for Lean Six Sigma, waterfall and/or agile project management.

Travel: Regional or global possible, less than 10%.

Language: English

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