What are the responsibilities and job description for the Program Manager (Lawrenceville, GA) position at Elma Electronic?
Elma Electronic Inc. is a global leader and industry innovator in advanced embedded computing solutions. Our products and integrated platforms are based on a set of modular building blocks such as, precision hardware components, rotary switches, and embedded computing boards.
As a global organization, we stay close to our customers and partners worldwide with sales, design, and manufacturing facilities across three continents.
Your Solution Partner.
We have an excellent opportunity for an accomplished Program Manager to join our team in Lawrenceville, Georgia. The ideal candidate is someone who can lead a team, set a process and workflows to manage customer requirements from order acceptance through delivery. The PM organizes, plans, sets milestones, and executes customer projects while managing budgets and schedules. The PM leads cross functional teams in managing project milestones and deliverables, flow down requirements, and communicates with stakeholders, through project closure.
Responsibilities:
A program manager is a professional who organizes, plans, and executes projects. Their responsibilities at a high level include:
- Staying on schedule
- Planning a project’s cost and sticking to a budget
- Managing project resources (including teams and workers)
- Documenting the progress of the project
- Communicating with stakeholders
- Assessing risks
- Troubleshooting
- Based on the requirements, objectives, deliverables, and proposed solution, develop a detailed project plan schedule with the identified task dependencies and critical path
- Identify, estimate, plan, and document the resources required to achieve the project objectives and deliverables
- Ensure coordination of activity, driving of progress, and tracking status against project plans, timelines, and changing priorities from initiation through closeout
- Evaluate change requests and manage the associated changes to project scope, time, and cost
- Coordinate directly and indirectly with project staff to ensure successful completion of projects, including directing, supervising, supporting and coordinating the project team members
- Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel and ensure accountability for task completion
- Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion and continually manage those expectations
- Define the project scope, success criteria, objectives, and deliverables that are aligned with business strategy and objectives
- Report project status on a regular basis and assist in preparation of steering committee presentations as required
- Identify and manage project risks and track/manage resolution of project issues
- Balance and manage the project constraints of scope, cost, time, resources, risk, and quality
- Manage key stakeholder expectations, concerns, and needs throughout the project
- Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team
- Lead post implementation reviews
- Partner with the cross functional project teams to build and implement a change management plan
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- Team Leadership
- Cross function leadership and integration
- Excellent verbal and written communication with team members, stakeholders, vendors, and customers
- Highly organized – able to prioritize and multitask to keep a portfolio of projects running smoothly
- Critical thinking – analyzing and evaluating situations to help prevent issues before they happen
- A great attitude and sense of humor – having a positive approach to the projects and problems can ease stress and energize the project team members
- Bachelor’s degree with studies in project management is a plus
- PMP and/or CAPM certifications are a plus
- A minimum of 10-15 years leading large, complex projects preferably in a electronics manufacturing environment
Elma offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience and benefits package.
Elma Electronic Inc. is proud of our diversity and equal employment opportunity practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.
Company: Elma
This is a full time position
