Project Leader 2
About The Position
We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more. As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing. When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow. Summary: The Project Leader2(PL2) has technical responsibility of IQP 3 to 5 projects with an estimated engineering count of xxx-xxx FTEs. The responsibilities of a PL2 are to manage the technical project activities in accordance to agreed deliverable, quality and cost as well as ensuring compliance with customer requirements. Additional responsible are to qualify the internal staffing of projects, develop and adhere to project timeline and report the operational situation during internal reviews.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from a technical college or university in Business, Management, or Engineering or another technical/scientific discipline and combined minimum 7 years of engineering and project management experience (minimum 5 years of engineering/product development experience, minimum 2 years of project lead/management experience in a technical field).
- An advanced degree may be substituted for experience.
- Must possess hands-on experience with project management and project management leadership.
- Ability to read, write, speak, analyze and interpret all forms of communication and business correspondence, primarily in English.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
- Ability to systematically analyze complex problems, draw relevant conclusions and implement appropriate solutions.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Microsoft Office suite of programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, and Outlook).
- Demonstrated ability to manage projects successfully to customers requirements (scope, cost, schedule, margin, delivery of contractual deliverables)
Responsibilities
- Review technical requirements set by customer
- Participate in quotation activities
- Support client meetings and on/off -site visits
- Monitors delivery progress with the customer
- Support negotiation with the customer
- Monitor delivery progress on projects
- Manage technical scope of the projects
- Responsible of the quality of the deliverables
- Prepare customer Steering Committee meetings
- Evaluate activities/roles that should be near-/offshore, if any
- Support definition of roles and responsibilities in the project organization
- Monitor the technical skills of the team members
- Support validation of the project organization and the team members
- Reports operational situation during monthly financial reviews
- Report if technical/project training is needed in projects
- Forecast of project Margins
- Inform Project Coordinator of monthly invoice amount
- Reports operational situation during monthly review
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
