Senior Technical Project Manager
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Toronto, ON, CA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Project management
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Prior experience as an engineer, such as hardware design, firmware, software, test, or manufacturing engineering.
- Experience with wireless, networking, or IoT products, including carrier and regulatory certification.
- Experience establishing a project management office or formal project management practice, or mentoring other project managers.
- Experience with stage-gate or similar product development processes.
- PMP, PgMP, or similar certification, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience working across multiple sites or time zones.
- Skills:
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills required, including the ability to establish credibility with engineers and executives.
- Proficiency with Excel, Jira, and Confluence, and the ability to adopt new tools readily.
- PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
- Lifting requirements up to 25 pounds. Requires sitting for periods of time
- Requires travel using all modes of transportation.
- WORK ENVIRONMENT:
- Working conditions are normal for an office environment. Minimal noise. Our Minnesota facility includes a manufacturing environment. Moderate noise level. Machinery operation requires the use of safet
- EQUIPMENT AND TOOLS USED:
- Laptop computer Standard office equipment
Full description
SUMMARY: The Senior Technical Project Manager leads project management for Engineering and is responsible for ensuring that each engineering project maintains a single, current, and accessible schedule, clearly assigned ownership of action items, and a plan of sufficient detail to support execution.
MultiTech develops products that combine hardware, firmware, software, and cloud services. The Senior Technical Project Manager will partner with Engineering, Product Management, Manufacturing, Quality, Certification, and Sales to plan projects, monitor progress against schedule, and address issues before they result in delays.
This position is based in Toronto and supports coordination between the Toronto and Minneapolis engineering teams. The Senior Technical Project Manager will manage engineering projects and will drive the standard processes and tools used for project management across Engineering.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Develop and maintain an integrated master schedule for each project, using estimates from the engineers doing the work, and update it as scope or dates change.
Publish schedules, status, risks, and decisions in a shared location, and report progress to Engineering leadership and the Executive Team.
Lead regular status meetings, and document action items with an owner and due date and track them to completion.
Plan integration and test events in detail, and track boards, samples, and test schedules.
Identify and escalate risks with mitigation plans, and guide projects through challenges such as supplier delays, hardware revisions, and certification findings.
Manage projects that combine hardware, firmware, and software, coordinating with Engineering, Product Management, Manufacturing, Quality, Purchasing, Regulatory and Certification, and Sales, and preparing projects for stage-gate reviews.
Develop project management as a competency by defining standard processes, templates, and tools, and recommending how the function should be structured in the future.
SECONDARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Providing guidance to engineers and project leads on planning, status tracking, and follow-through.
Capturing lessons learned and historical data, such as actual versus planned durations, to improve future estimating.
SUPERVISORY RELATIONSHIPS:
The Senior Technical Project Manager will report to the VP of Engineering. This position does not currently have direct reports. This position is based in Toronto. Travel of approximately 15% is expected, including approximately monthly trips to Minneapolis.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: