Manager - Project Management

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCUTRE

BUSINESS: CIRCOR INDUSTRIAL

LOCATION: DAMAN, INDIA

DIRECT REPORTING: HEAD MANUFACTURING / SITE LEADER

FUNCTIONAL REPORTING:HEAD MANUFACTURING / SITE LEADER

POSITION DETAILS

Position Summary

This position is Responsible for Planning, Organising, Co-ordinating, Timely Communicating and Executing a comprehensive Project management regimen that meets customer expectations. The individual provides Project management for all kind of projects: New Product Development, Inter-Co Product Transfers, Cap Ex., ETO Project Execution, by focusing on:

(1) Structured development of Project Tracker with Toll Gates keeping in mind the key elements & considering the dependent and interdependent actions in-order to meet the Toll gate and final deadlines.

(2) Vigilant cost containment, avoidance, and reduction throughout a product’s life cycle, and

(3) Communication Cadence to team and to Leadership Team

Principal Activities

• Serves as Project owner, accountable for the execution and success of the Project.
• Develops and validates Project scope and customer deliverables and ensures that customer expectations for quality, timing, and product performance are met.
• Develops a Project Tracker to visualises and monitor the progress of project; also develops a periodic review mechanism.
• Identifies and manages assigned resources (purchased material, engineering development, capital investment, and launch costs, contract provisions) to minimise total Project costs and maximise expected return.
• Meets Project deliverables (financial targets of appropriation request, cost, timing, completeness) as defined by the Steering committee.
• Leads efforts to ensure that Organisation's expectations of ROI and EV are met.
• Assists the Gate committee in developing a Project strategy and converts the strategy into action.
• Alerts the Gate committee for Project risks that are beyond the scope of the Project team in an appropriate time frame; continuously identifies risk factors and seeks to mitigate adverse impact.
• Works with functional engineers to assign members of cross-functional product launch teams. .
• Leads and manages team environment through all Project phases / gate points with emphasis on synergy, development and empowerment to ensure collaboration, team unity and team success.
• Conducts frequent Team meetings. Leads team meetings, monthly functional meetings, joint (plant/customer) meetings and Gate review meetings.
• Maintain Project charter, timing plan, gate review matrices and open issue log.
• Helps the team reach consensus when necessary and makes decisions as required. Knows when to make decision independently and when to ask for guidance and input.
• Evaluates and reviews team member performance and provides input to TMS.
• Addresses and resolves Project "roadblocks” through the appropriate functional engineers, or functional directors, or vice presidents.
• Keeps Project team in place for 2 to 3 months after launch to ensure objectives of delivery, quality and cost are met. Objectively evaluates performance with input from the steering committee to determine at the 3 month after launch window if extension is required.
• Serves as contact person to the customer and participates in, or leads in some cases, customer meetings; key contact for the customer Project.
• Develops relationship with customer that makes the product launch an experience that contributes to awarding new business in the future.
• Ensures internal and external documentation requirements are met.