Milwaukee Electric Tool

Senior Project Leader

Milwaukee Electric Tool • $110K — $130K *
Brookfield, WI 53045In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
8 - 10 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering required; advanced studies in Project Management, Finance, or Marketing preferred.
  • Minimum of 10 years engineering experience with a focus on project management.
  • Experience managing multiple complex projects or subsystems within larger projects is essential.
  • Strong mechanical/electrical engineering skills are a must.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Microsoft Project is required.
  • Familiarity with design technologies related to Milwaukee products is necessary.

Responsibilities

  • Lead moderate to highly complex engineering projects with minimal oversight.
  • Ensure projects are completed within budget and on schedule.
  • Communicate project details effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Facilitate tradeoff discussions and risk management with cross-functional teams.
  • Drive design to align with market needs and fulfill project requirements.
  • Evaluate design alternatives to meet project specifications and support mass production.
  • Conduct design and safety reviews to secure necessary approvals.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans.
  • Generous 401(K) savings plan.
  • Education assistance programs.
  • On-site wellness and fitness center, food, and coffee services.
Full Job Description
Senior Project Leader

You'll also be DISRUPTIVE through these duties and responsibilities:

The Senior Project Leader is responsible for managing multiple moderate to highly complex engineering projects with minimal direction. Individuals in this position will provide project management and necessary technical direction to assure successful and timely implementation of projects.

  • Provides leadership over moderate to highly complex design projects. Provides direction, guidance and engineering expertise to team members. Review work of designers, engineers and other project team members.
  • Responsible for the completion of assigned engineering projects within budgetary and scheduling guidelines.
  • Communicates, both verbal and written, to assure all groups are working toward the goal of timely project completion. Communicate technical details, ideas, and concepts to engineers and non-engineers in multiple locations.
  • Ability to lead tradeoff discussions and conversations around risk management with cross-functional teams.
  • Drive design of project to meet market driven design guides and fulfill cost, timing, reliability, and manufacturing requirements.
  • Analyze, evaluate and select from design execution alternatives to best meet specification objectives and implement designs into mass production.
  • Accountable for technical elements of project execution including integration of complicated components and assemblies, material selection, packaging and safety, regulatory and standards compliance.
  • Conduct design and safety reviews as needed to gain necessary approvals for product development phase progressions.
  • Comply with all METCo procedures covering new product development and design output in addition to procedures of non-engineering departments related to project flow.
  • Consistently visualizes entire scope of a project with very little guidance.
  • Schedules, develops agendas, facilitates and documents project meetings.
  • Tracks project schedule to ensure adherence to timelines.
  • Regularly makes presentations of project status.
  • May occasionally recommend changes to existing standards and procedures.
  • Maintains an awareness of competitive offerings and the general business climate in the power tool industry.
  • May have formal supervisory responsibilities and oversees day-to-day activities of project team members.
  • Identify project risks and implement risk reduction plans.


Manufacturing
  • Interacts extensively with global manufacturing plants and outside suppliers to achieve project goals.
  • Ability to support a global team on DFMA initiatives.


What TOOLS you'll bring with you:
  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering. Graduate studies preferred in the business areas such as Project Management, Finance, Marketing, or Organizational studies. Formal project management training preferred.
  • Minimum 10 years engineering experience in related field.
  • Experience successfully managing multiple moderate-high complexity projects and/or subsystems of larger projects.
  • Must possess a high level of Mechanical/Electrical engineering aptitude.
  • Must have a working design knowledge of a wide variety of the technologies associated with Milwaukee products.
  • Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office software including Microsoft Project.


We provide these great perks and benefits:
  • Robust health, dental and vision insurance plans.
  • Generous 401 (K) savings plan.
  • Education assistance.
  • On-site wellness, fitness center, food, and coffee service. • And many more, check out our benefits site HERE.

About Milwaukee Electric Tool

Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation is a leading manufacturer and marketer of heavy-duty, portable electric power tools and accessories for professional users worldwide. Since its founding in 1924, Milwaukee has focused on a single vision: To produce the best heavy-duty electric power tools and accessories available to the professional user. Today, the Milwaukee name stands for the highest quality, durable and reliable professional tools money can buy.
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Size
3,500 employees
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
* Ladders Estimates

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