.Job Summary:The Project Manager supports global cross-functional teams to plan, execute, monitor and control change management projects post production.Required to interface with all levels of internal and customer management on all aspects of planning, scheduling, organizing, directing, monitoring, and controlling the program.**Responsibilities**:Leadership:Coordinate, develop, and motivate the project team to meet quality, scope, cost, timing, and operational targets using the change management process. Support conflict resolution. Guides root cause identification and corrective action implementation. Negotiate with internal and external groups, vendors and customer. Align projects with strategic direction.Communication:Enable efficient and effective information flow between the project team and stakeholders. Ensure each team member is always aware of their deliverables and timing commitments. Establish meeting cadence, create agenda, publish notes and actions, and keep meetings on task.Scope / Change Management (owner scope management):Maintain, along with engineering, customer and project requirements list and document summary ( SOW). Communicate requirements to applicable functions. Document, communicate, and manage approval of changes and impact (cost, timing, scope, risks, etc.).Schedule (own project performance to plan; identify and manage constraints.) Support development, approval, and management of project requirements. Develop and manage timeline based on customer and functional team requirements. Manage cross-functional resources and completion of deliverables to maintain project timing. Track and report performance to baseline timing plan.Cost (own execution of project to budget):Work with project team and commercial managers to define project budget, product cost, and develop PAR for approval. Manage, monitor and report project financial status vs baseline (budget / quote / PAR) through life of project. Ensure the product(s) meets BOM cost targets.Quality. Define key metrics to ensure product robustness to meet scope requirements. Tools include:Risk Management:Support identification and tracking of identified risk items. Ensure cross-functional involvement in risk identification, ranking, and mitigation. Anticipate risk caused by late tasks and changes by developing mitigation strategy.Product Design:Lead team to meet design objectives (specifications, functional expectations, industry requirements), and develop action plans to address gaps. Audit customer samples for customer satisfaction. Manage prototype build and testing schedule.Customer Satisfaction:Foster an effective personal working relationship with appropriate customer contacts as key contact for program implementation. Meet dates and commitments via customer open issues list which direct team priorities. Maintain regular contact with customer to communicate problems early. Do not avoid difficult issues or decisions
