SR PROJECT MANAGER ENGINEER (#, CA, US, _)

Job Overview

This position provides Project Management leadership & is responsible for end-to-end Product Development projects leading cross-functional teams with KPIs such as Launch on Time, Budget, Cost & Quality

This position will interface with the following:

• Product Management
• Marketing & Sales
• Product Engineering
• System Architect
• Advance Development Team
• Advance Manufacturing Team   

Job Requirements

• Manage multiple N+1 PoC development projects, ensuring execution on time, on cost, and on quality, while balancing technical feasibility and commercial impact.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration with System Architecture (SA), Signal Integrity (SI COE), Advanced Development (ADT), and product development teams to accelerate innovation cycles.
• Follow processes for iterative development cycles with rapid prototyping, ensuring flexibility to adapt to customer feedback and evolving industry trends while allowing for agile experimentation.
• Facilitate technology handoff from AST to responsible Product Development Engineering (PDE) teams, ensuring seamless knowledge transfer.
• Partner with Signal Integrity and Mechanical Engineering teams to drive concept validation through simulations, prototype development, and functional testing.
• Ensure alignment between TE’s strategic objectives and AST’s exploratory projects, regularly updating senior leadership on project status and key learnings.
• Act as the primary liaison between AST and manufacturing/supply chain teams to assess early-stage design feasibility and Proof of Concepts (POCs).
• Communications: Follow the Project Communication Plan, lead periodic Management Level Project Reviews, Report Project Progress, and Manage Stakeholder Expectations
• Developing project schedules, resource requirements, and budget forecasts. Tracking and reporting on project progress and project cost
• Effective project Risk management: create, monitor, and control risk management plans

What your background should look like

Skills, Experience and Education

• Graduate / Master in engineering with 5-10 years of experience
• 3+ years of Project Management experience in the industrial product / Hardware domain
• Distributed & multi-cultural team management experience
• Understanding of Toll Gate / Stage-Gate process in Product development.
• Experience in effective project management strategies and tactics
• Experience in Stakeholder management and requirement management
• Exposure to manufacturing processes
• Fluent in English with good verbal and written communication skills, ability to communicate Globally at all levels internally and externally.
• Experience in project planning & execution
• Experience in Leading teams to success, collaborate across boundaries, track results, and develop Communication and responsibility matrix
• Proficient with MS Office tools (XL, Word, PowerPoint)
• Work along with CFT for problem-solving and brainstorming
   

Preferable

• Exposure to regulatory approval processes such as UL, CSA, CQC, VDE, etc
• Experience in Terminal and connector industry or products
• Exposure to Agile Project Management
• Certified PMP or equivalent project management certification

Competencies