Program Manager

Hose-mccann Telephone Co.•Deerfield Beach, FL

About The Position

The Program Manager will oversee the sales/engineering project portfolio, managing multiple projects of moderate to large size efficiently to stay within budget and ensure timely delivery. This role involves responsibility for various design elements to complete engineering projects, systems, components, or systems with other team members, adhering to clear and specified objectives. The Program Manager ensures project engineering activities comply with contract requirements and support the overall project schedule, scope, and budget, while also ensuring all projects are delivered on time and within scope. The position requires preparing complete project documentation, including plans, specifications, and engineer estimates, as well as evaluating and adapting standard techniques to project assignments. This role involves preparing and conducting internal meetings, working cross-functionally with departments like Engineering, Production, Sales, Project Management, Quality, and Procurement, and interpreting contract specifications. The Program Manager will participate in customer meetings, resolve client, engineering, and management project issues, maintain project milestone lists, assess and communicate project status, and identify lessons learned for continuous improvement to drive global deployment scalability.

Requirements

Bachelor’s in Electrical, Electronic, or Systems Engineering or related Engineering field.
Proficiency using tools like AutoCAD, MS Visio, MS Outlook, MS Excel, and MS Word.
Strong understanding of marine industry standards and regulations.
Ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with all levels of employees, management, and clients.
Ability to organize work, set priorities, meet critical deadlines, and follow-up on assignments with minimal supervision.
Experience working in a manufacturing environment.
Ability to maintain confidentiality and protect privileged client information and documents appropriately.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Marine Communications Systems (Telephone Systems, Public Address, Alarms, etc.) preferred.
PMP Certification preferred.

Responsibilities

Oversees the sales/engineering project portfolio.
Works on multiple projects of moderate to large size using time efficiently to stay within budget and timely delivery.
Responsible for the various design elements to complete an engineering project, system, component, or system with other team members with clear and specified objectives involving conventional types of plans, surveys, investigations, structures, and/or equipment.
Ensures project engineering activities comply with contract requirements and support overall project schedule, scope and budget.
Ensures that all projects are delivered on time, and within scope.
Prepares complete project documentation to include plans, specifications, and engineer estimates including the collection, assembling, and organizing of project data.
Evaluates, selects, and adapts standard techniques, procedures, and criteria to project assignments; formulates and solves problems.
Prepare and conduct meetings with internal teams to plan and track deliverables.
Work cross-functionally and influence various teams such as Engineering, Production, Sales, Project Management, Quality, Procurement and provide feedback to improve deployment efficiency.
Interprets contract specifications and resolves conflicts with stakeholders on such matters as interpretation of specifications, and related matters.
Participates in customer meetings, and resolves client, engineering and management project issues.
Maintains list of project milestones and issues in-progress.
Assess and communicate project status, escalations on potential risks and delays across multiple teams.
Solve for standard work gaps, identify lessons learned, and propose continuous improvement with a goal of driving global deployment scalability.