Our client, a global manufacturing leader of critical electronic components, has required us to search for a Project Manager for their facility in Tijuana, B.C.
**JOB SUMMARY**
The Project Manager will facilitate and lead strategic initiatives for a defined customer (internal or external) or user. Provide management and guidance to multi-functional project teams. Manage and enhance customer relationships. Provide full accountability for project schedules, project management and performance requirements for enterprise level projects.
**ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Responsible for ensuring all of the project requirements and/or objectives are correctly gathered, understood and properly translated for execution
- Build team(s) to address the project goals and objectives
- Collaborate with customer (internal or external) from requirements gathering through product acceptance/ approval
- Align the project team to customer needs by establishing milestones, goals, and objectives based on input from all functional areas and stakeholders within the project
- Review project schedules with functional project managers and project coordinators allocated to projects
- Provide guidance and motivation to project teams to successfully achieve project goal and corporate initiatives
- Communicate project objectives in terms of overall strategic business objectives
- Serve as interface with customers, vendors, stakeholders and project sponsor(s)
- Manage development of project plans with focus on achievement of project goals and corporate initiatives, including project specific Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) or metrics
- Responsible for recognizing project's Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and manage the work within scope, quality, time and cost constraints
- Drive project to completion in accordance with the project schedule
- Coordinate the efforts of the team to develop an integrated project plan and risk analysis with action plans to mitigate the risks
- Management of Resource capacity and time tracking allocated to the project
- Participates in the financial management and analysis of costs for projects, including Capital Expenditures Requests (CER's) travel, training, resources allocation and other project related costs
- Accountable for overall project success - including cost, schedule, quality, and scope management
- Report project status, issues and implemented solutions as well as evaluations and assessments of the results
- Provide leaders with updates, including greatest opportunities for improvement
- Recognize potential problem areas against the plan and identify and implement alternative solutions
- Identify best cost solutions to reduce cost by streamlining processes and systems (i.e. modification of responsibilities or consolidation of tasks, elimination of non-value added processes, or complete re-engineering of processes and systems)
- Provide key stakeholders with regular project performance status, variances to plan, and identification of corrective actions (if required)
- Drive continuous improvement through trend reporting analysis and metrics management
- Demonstrate a commitment to customer service; anticipate, meet and exceed expectations by solving problems quickly and effectively, making customer issues a priority
- Drive relevant, concise and effective communication through a variety of mediums
- Comply and follow all procedures within the company security policy
- May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned
**KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS**
- Demonstrated Leadership and Management capabilities
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification desirable
- Knowledge of organization's operating policies and procedures required
- Knowledge of organization's culture and guiding principles
- Previous experience in manufacturing environment: Engineering, Test, Quality, Planning, Materials, etc
- Prior experience in customer interface
- Strong operational and financial knowledge required
- Substantial knowledge of Jabil and demonstrated ability to leverage organization
- Consultative skills (ability to understand true customer needs)
- Good communications skills
- Distinctive problem solving leader
- Should have the following personal characteristics: strong leader, professional, hard-charging, detail-oriented, reliable, calm under fire, creative, with a can-do attitude
- Electronics Manufacturing background experience as required
**EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS**
- Bachelor's degree required (Supply Chain Management or Engineering)
- PMP certified professional is desirable
- Minimum 2 years work-related experience required in a supervisory/management role and
- Minimum 2 years project management experience or related discipline
- Or an equivalent combination of education, training and/or experience