Job Purpose We are seeking a Project Manager Engineer responsible for planning, initiating, and implementing strategic manufacturing projects. This is an individual contributor role (no direct reports) requiring high cross-functional coordination and strong influence across multiple departments.
Key Responsibilities
- Project Management: Lead the full project lifecycle for R&D; and New Product Introduction (NPI), managing everything from initial kickoff to final plant delivery.
- Cross-Functional Coordination & Escalation: Coordinate deliverables with operations, engineering, and quality teams. Manage timely escalations whenever a department faces delays or deviations from project goals.
- Strategic Planning: Prepare Sales Requisitions, define project scopes, assign resources, and build timelines for strategic manufacturing projects.
- Risk Management & KPIs: Identify, mitigate, and monitor operational and project risks; adjust and define relevant KPIs to guarantee target achievements.
- Improvement Methodologies: Apply continuous improvement cycles (PDCA)
and Advanced Product Quality Planning standards.
Candidate Profile & Requirements
- Education: Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering or related fields.
- Experience: Minimum of 6 years of proven experience managing R&D; projects and executing project implementations from scratch within the metal-mechanical manufacturing industry.
- Preferred Profile: Background in NPD (New Product Development) or NPI (New Product Introduction) roles.
- Language Skills: Advanced conversational English.
Methodologies & Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in continuous improvement cycles (PDCA).
- Solid knowledge of APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning).
- Experience with formal project management methodologies (risk management, S-curves/progress tracking, KPIs).
- Key Soft Skills: Negotiation, influence without direct authority, sense of urgency, and cross-departmental conflict resolution.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary aligned with senior-level experience.
- Benefits package superior to law.
- Opportunity to lead high-impact projects in the metal-mechanical sector.