Sr. Engineering Project Manager-Core BU

Mini-Circuits•Melville, NY

143d•Onsite

About The Position

Mini-Circuits designs, manufactures and distributes integrated circuits, modules, and sub-systems for high-performance radio frequency (RF) and microwave applications. With design, sales, and manufacturing locations in over 30 countries, Mini-Circuits’ products are used in a range of wired and wireless communications applications. Our products are also used in detection, measurement, and imaging applications, including military communication, guidance, and electronic countermeasure systems, commercial, scientific, military land, sea, and aircraft; automotive systems, medical systems, and industrial test equipment. Mini-Circuits sells its products to over 20,000 customers globally through our direct sales force, applications engineering staff, and sales representatives, as well as through our extensive website. The Sr Engineering Project Manager is responsible for overseeing projects that span all product lines within the Core Business Unit (CBU). These are often complex situations that require a balance of business and engineering implications while maintaining quality and consistency of products within the product lines. This is largely leading without authority, driving progress to deadlines & digging deep into the cross functional details. This position is also to help with management/reporting of the CBU as a whole such as Quarterly Business presentation preparation, yearly CBU business strategy and other projects focused on improving CBU.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering + 7-10 years of experience in a related field, OR Master’s degree in electrical engineering + 5-7 year of experience in a related field
Must understand basic project and product line financial metrics: ROI, GM, R&D Spend and contribution margin
Proficient in the use of Project Management, ERP and PLM tools (JIRA, SmartSheet and/or Arena desirable)
Strong research, analytical and presentation skills
Must have ability to communicate at the right level of detail for the consumer. Details for the people working the various projects but also executive summaries worthy of consumption by VPs, Sr VPs and C suite.
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal communication skills
Demonstrated ability to deliver on-time results and be accountable.
Detail oriented and extremely well organized.
Valid driver’s license and ability to drive for extended periods of time

Nice To Haves

JIRA, SmartSheet and/or Arena desirable

Responsibilities

Work independently and in conjunction with CBU PMMs, PMEs, product line managers, CBU Product management and with the corresponding Design Engineers along with all associated departments involved in running the business unit.
Work with the department managers of the various functional departments to assign resources to the project to successfully achieve the project objectives.
Drive execution progress on projects to a successful completion of objectives.
Accurately define the projects’ purpose, scope, and objectives, project deliverables, key milestones, and project resource requirements and fully document as necessary with a project charter.
Document the status of the work effort relative to the plan using various project tracking tools; partner with appropriate stakeholders to document project progress/gaps/actions.
Responsible for the attainment of the project objectives including the review of project deliverables for coverage and quality.
Work with the Engineering Test Department manager to assign characterization test resources and qualification resources.
Prepare and maintain documentation and folders in accordance with established procedures in preparation for compliance audits.
Close projects in accordance with established procedures and guidelines.
Comply, understand, and support corporate safety initiatives to ensure a safe work environment.
Ability and willingness to abide by Company’s Code of Conduct.