PRINCIPAL PROJECT MANAGER ENGINEER

At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.

Company

Job Overview

TE Connectivity Ltd. is a $16.5 billion global technology and manufacturing leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. For more than 75 years, our connectivity and sensor solutions, proven in the harshest environments, have enabled advancements in transportation, industrial applications, medical technology, energy, data communications, and the home. With 80,000 employees, including more than 7,500 engineers, working alongside customers in approximately 150 countries, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at www.te.com

ROLE OBJECTIVE

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.

Short Description

• Manage multiple N 1 PoC development projects, ensuring execution on time, on cost, and on quality, while balancing technical feasibility and commercial impact.
• Lead project planning, execution, and risk mitigation efforts for socket, high-speed connector, and cable assembly solutions for switches, servers, and storage data communication.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration with System Architecture (SA), Signal Integrity (SI COE), Advanced Development (ADT), and product development teams to accelerate innovation cycles.
• Develop 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).
• Leadership: Excellent cross-functional leadership and ability to coach and mentor other PjMs.
• Communications: Develop 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 product cost
• Effective project Risk management: create, monitor, and control risk management plans
  
  

What Your Background Should Look Like

EDUCATION & CRITICAL EXPERIENCE

• Graduate / Master in engineering with 18-20 years of experience
• 8 years of Project Management experience in the industrial product / Hardware domain
• Distributed & multi-cultural team management experience
  
  

COMPETENCIES (TECHNICAL & BEHAVIOURAL)

MUST HAVE

• In-depth understanding of Toll Gate / Stage-Gate process in Product development.
• Experience in effective project management strategies and tactics
• Extensive experience in Stakeholder management, 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.
• Extensive experience in project planning & execution
• Extensive 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
  
  

Competencies

Values: Integrity, Accountability, Inclusion, Innovation, Teamwork

About Te Connectivity

TE Connectivity is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. Our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, renewable energy, automated factories, data centers, medical technology and more. With more than 85,000 employees, including 8,000 engineers, working alongside customers in approximately 140 countries. TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS. Learn more at

Compensation

• Competitive base salary commensurate with experience: $159,000 – $238,400 (subject to change dependent on physical location)
• Posted salary ranges are made in good faith. TE Connectivity reserves the right to adjust ranges depending on the experience/qualification of the selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.
• Total Compensation = Base Salary Incentive(s) Benefits
  
  

Benefits

• A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401(k), disability, life insurance, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and voluntary benefits.
  
  

EOE, Including Disability/Vets