Emerson · 7 hours ago
Principal Project Manager
Easthampton, MA
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$154K/yr - $200K/yr
5+ years exp
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U.S. Citizen Only
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Responsibilities
Create project plans that drive successful, measurable project execution: Ensure technical feasibility, financial viability, risk assessment and schedule are well understood by customers. Ensure the project team’s identification and document customer requirements and changes to those requirements. Work with project teams to define appropriate technical solutions. Support the project team’s generation and execution of a work breakdown structure that aligns with budget and routinely reassess as needed. Actively handle risks to identify changes and mitigation strategies. Clearly communicate all schedule constraints and project landmarks.
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 partners. Effectively negotiate scope and schedule changes. Accurately identify and communicate internal and external customers’ needs. Organize and facilitate project reviews that ensure key customers 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, Operations, Quality and Sales. Lead with influence to ensure the success of your projects and set the stage for future success of your next project working with these customers. Develop a sense of urgency in customers while also building a solid foundation for future collaboration.
Lead project analysis on scope, schedule & budget planning and risk assessment: Monitor and report out to customers on project costs, status, quality; call out issues when vital. Evaluate changes that substantially impact the scope, budget, or schedule of projects and drive decisions on these changes.
Collaborate with resource managers to ensure appropriate staffing on projects: Influence and make decisions about scope, schedule, and resources.
Drive process and tool improvement efforts: Drive continuous improvement through successful lessons learned activities that result in appropriate process or tool changes. Lead initiatives to help the organization operate more efficiently and effective. Be passionate about continuous improvement.
Lead and give direction to project coordinators and other project team members: Ensure adherence to established processes and standard methodologies. Review work quality and provide mentorship to other project team members. Act as a subject matter expert in one or more key areas, such as customer, application or tool/process expertise.
Qualification
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Required
Strong understanding of project management principles and practices such as scope / schedule / cost management, interdepartmental project execution, monitoring and control of project metrics, risk / issue management, and partner management.
A minimum of at least 5 years’ experience leading and advising customer-facing engineering projects.
Experience in handling customer-facing solution delivery with strong communication skills, presentation skills and negotiation skills.
A Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer science, or related field + Alternatively, equivalent work experience.
Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25% of the time.
Proven organizational, multi-tasking, and documentation skills.
Proven technical and executive communication skills.
Proven ability to lead, coach, and work effectively with teams on a fixed schedule.
Demonstrated ability to independently drive non-collaborative tasks to timely completion.
US Person (US Citizen or Green Card) ONLY, ability to work on ITAR and CUI projects and qualify for DoD Clearances.
Preferred
A PMP or PMI-ACP certification.
Work experience with Agile or Hybrid customer-facing engineering projects.
MBA or Master's Degree in electrical engineering, computer science, or related field.
Aerospace industry test system experience is highly desirable.
Experience managing defense contracts is highly desirable.
Strong understanding of business concepts such as contract building, terms and conditions preferred.
Previous exposure to National Instruments hardware and software + First-hand experience using them is preferred.
Benefits
A variety of medical insurance plans, with dental and vision coverage
Employee Assistance Program
401(k)
Tuition reimbursement
Employee resource groups
Recognition
Flexible time off plans, including paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), vacation and holiday leave
Company
Emerson
Emerson is an technology & engineering company providing innovative solutions for customers in industrial and residential markets.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2015-08-17IPO
Leadership Team
Lal Karsanbhai
President and CEO
Nick Piazza
Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer
Recent News
2024-11-11
Business Journals
2024-06-01
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