At a Glance Legrand/Pass & Seymour has an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager, New Product Development to join the Legrand/Pass & Seymour Team in Syracuse, NY. Responsible for projects and engineering efforts that support the design, development, and improvement of new and existing products. Tasked with coordinating efforts across Engineering, Marketing, Procurement, Quality and Operations functions to ensure the successful review, planning, execution, and closeout of projects. These activities must support the company's goals of increasing market share and profitability through creativity and innovation. What Will You Do? Main Activities: Work with product line managers to review product specifications, and develop project estimates (scope, schedule, budget, technical feasibility, risk) Build out project schedules utilizing the waterfall and/or agile methodologies Break down major milestones into smaller deliverables Use Smartsheet to track project schedules, budgets, and dashboards Schedule and lead cross-functional team meetings Manage and review project milestone documents to ensure completion Take thorough meeting minutes, assign action items, and follow up on open actions Align projects and programs with larger organizational initiatives and direction. Assist Management with developing and maintaining the project management process Maintain project documentation and contribute to project Gate meetings Other duties as assigned by management Main Job Duties: Work with product line managers and engineering teams to evaluate initial product specifications and provide guidance on technical risks and estimated schedule, budgets, and product costs. Manages project/program planning and execution, stage-gate approvals, and deployment planning meetings. Executes and delivers projects/programs on-scope, on-time, on-budget, with quality and customer satisfaction - promoting and executing using project management methodologies and tools, and a continuous improvement mindset. Identifies and manages the delivery of all project deliverables with team members. Manages, tracks, documents, and communicates all changes to the project (e.g. Scope, Schedule). Organizes the project team to carry out the project plan with assistance from function managers. As project team leader, has responsibility and authority necessary to keep project on track, escalates to managers and Product Committee as appropriate. Develops a budget for the project, tracks project expenditures including coordination of purchase orders, tracks man hours and other resources spent on the project. Manages the identification, impact, mitigation, and communication of risks. Holds project status update meetings, communicates status regularly and is the point of contact for assigned projects.