Technical Project Manager

San Antonio, TX, United States

Job Description

Our Company

Lancer Worldwide, a Hoshizaki Company, is an award-winning global leader in beverage dispensing. Through innovation and a commitment to dedication in action, we create products that benefit our customers worldwide, and give them a distinct advantage in the marketplace. We offer our teammates the opportunity to grow personally and professionally, to contribute to the success of a dynamic organization, and to serve others in a manner that exceeds their expectations. We welcome talented, passionate, and highly motivated individuals to join our team.

Summary

The Technical Project Manager is responsible for: creating project plans, executing, managing work, tracking, reporting progress, communicating with stakeholders, training, and educating stakeholders, and continuously improving the various cross-functional processes for execution of projects in the Lancer Engineering department. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with the engineering resource managers, keep the team focused and motivated throughout the development and industrialization cycles, ensuring the on-time delivery of tasks as per approved plans.

Essential Functions

•Apply effective Project Management Techniques, tools and processes to deliver electromechanical modules, assemblies, and final products as per approve plans.

•Utilize Product Life Cycle (PLC) process, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and Enterprise Resource Management (ERP) to manage new products from inception to obsolescence.

•Motivate the team to deliver with quality and sense of urgency.

•Understand the product development flow, and proposed improvements.

•Take high-level requirements and map them into the appropriate development team resources with support from the engineering managers, to ensure successful delivery per approved plan.

•Keep the team focused and motivated throughout the development cycle, ensuring the on-time delivery of tasks as per the approved plans.

•Create and maintain project plans for the engineering teams.

•Manage outsourcing of development activities at engineering service provider, suppliers, and other partners.

•Maintain frequent and clear communication with managers and other stakeholders to communicate risks, highlight important changes to priorities, requirements, status, and impact to agreed plans.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

•Experience in project management of engineering products.

•Proven record for product delivery.

•System understanding of mechatronics projects (both hardware, firmware, and software).

•Good process background: Project management certification a plus (e.g. PMI or PDMA)

•Ability to understand systems specifications, test specifications, datasheets, charts, and reports.

•Ownership mentality, desire to deliver top quality at right cost, first time right.

•Highly motivated, desire to solve problems and succeed (self-starter and driven).

•Excellent written and oral communications skills, ability to provide project planning with sound technical trade-off arguments.

•Good team player who works well in a multi-discipline, multi-cultural, technology and manufacturing environment.

•Led project team of 5-20 engineers, designers, and technicians, in-house and outsourced, geographically dispersed.

•Experience with electronic, mechanical, or mechatronics New Product Design/Introduction (NPI/D).

•Familiarity with stage gate methodologies.

•Familiarity with electronics, or mechanical, or mechatronics manufacturing ad operations.

•Knowledge about Engineering Change Management, Engineering Change Requests/Orders/Notices.

•Good Technical Presentation Skills. Experience presenting to executive leadership.

•Strong English communication skills, both written and oral. Spanish is a plus.

•Experience working in a project-oriented team.

•Ability to prioritize tasks in a fast pace and dynamic environment.

•Can observe and respond to people and situations and interact with others encountered in the course of work.

•Can learn and apply new information or skills.

•Must be able to read and interpret data, information, and documents.

•Strong customer focus and commitment to customer satisfaction through prioritization, quality, efficiency, and professionalism.

•Ability to complete assignments with attention to detail and high degree of accuracy.

•Proven ability to perform effectively in a demanding environment with changing workloads.

•Result driven-demonstrate ownership and accountability.

•Identifies bottlenecks and drives improvements.

•Work independently or as part of a team and follow through on assignments with minimal supervision.

•Demonstrate open, clear, concise and professional communication.

•Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with co-workers and customer.

•Work according to a strict set of procedures within the provided timelines.

Education and Experience

•BS Engineering with a major in Electrical, Computer, Software, Mechanical, Mechatronics, Production, Industrial Engineering, or similar engineering fields. MS or MBA is a plus.

•5+ years relevant design and/or project management experience with electronics, mechanical or mechatronics products. PMI or PDMA certification is a plus.

Notice To Third Party Agencies

Please note that LANCER does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, LANCER will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, LANCER explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of LANCER.

EEO Statement

Lancer provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.