About the roleThe Project Manager independently leads multiple product-development projects from concept through commercialization, ensuring delivery within approved scope, schedule, and budget. The role coordinates cross-functional teams involved in mechanical, electrical, electronic, software, manufacturing, sourcing, quality, and supply-chain activities. The Project Manager applies established project-management practices, facilitates timely decision-making, communicates project status and risks to stakeholders, and contributes to the continuous improvement of project-delivery processes.
Responsibilities- Lead multiple cross-functional product-development projects from concept through design, validation, manufacturing integration, and commercial launch.
- Develop, maintain, and communicate project plans, schedules, budgets, resource requirements, risks, issues, dependencies, and key decisions.
- Lead the resolution of complex project issues and escalate matters when additional authority, resources, or executive direction are required.
- Make or facilitate decisions that support project objectives and adjust plans as needed.
- Promote collaboration, accountability, and alignment across the cross-functional project team
- Develop and maintain detailed schedules using Microsoft Project or equivalent scheduling tools, including dependency, critical-path, resource, and schedule-risk analysis.
- Provide clear and timely project updates, recommendations, and escalation summaries to project teams, functional leaders, sponsors, and senior management.
- Mentor Associate Project Leads and support the development of project-management capabilities across the organization.
- Identify, recommend, and implement improvements to project-management standards, tools, templates, governance, and delivery processes.
- Evaluate financial, operational, customer, quality, supply-chain, and strategic implications when developing recommendations and making project decisions.
Qualifications- Experience with formal phase-gate, stage-gate, Agile, hybrid, or other product-development governance models.
- Excellent communications skills, with the ability to communicate across management levels and different disciplines.
- Ability to translate detailed technical, schedule, financial, and operational information into clear recommendations and actionable plans.
- Ability to influence decisions, build alignment, and maintain accountability in a cross-functional matrix organization.
- Ability to identify root causes and implement practical solutions to process, resource, technical, and procedural obstacles.
- Working knowledge of bills of materials, component parts, engineering drawings, and fundamental manufacturing, sourcing, quality, and supply-chain processes.
- Ability to define and implement solutions to problems resulting from processes, procedural issues, resource constraints or other obstacles.
Education & Experience- Bachelor's degree in engineering, project management, or a related field.
- Experience managing projects for new product development for manufactured products.
- Five or more years of experience managing complex, cross-functional projects.
- Experience developing and maintaining integrated schedules, budgets, risk registers, and project reports
- PMP Certification or equivalent
- Experience using Microsoft Project or an equivalent project-scheduling application.
TravelWhat We Offer Comprehensive benefits include:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance programs
- 401K plans with employer-matching contributions
- Tuition reimbursement
- PTO
- Paid holidays
- Volunteer time off
For more information about benefits, please go to: https://careers.leviton.com/benefits
Pay Range$100,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year
