Project Leader
PROJECT LEADER
Location: Rychnov nad Kneznou
Reporting to: EEM CTO
Purpose of the Job: The job holder will be responsible for project management of industrialization of electromechanical locking products.
Principal Responsibilities:
- Leading the industrialization part of the NPI/CPI projects from manufacturing perspective.
- Working closely with EMEIA DAS project teams for new product developments.
- Drive execution of the projects in Operations in accordance with the plan of the entire product innovation projects.
- Main contact person for EMEIA DAS project managers, as a project role Operations/Manufacturing.
- Consolidating and streamlining the cooperation between manufacturing site and business product owner.
- Leading internal EEM projects related to electromechanical business (e.g. updates of production and testing equipment, process improvement projects,…).
- Coordinating the local manufacturing team and reporting the progress to EMEIA DAS.
- Reporting the project status, schedules, achievements to EEM management.
- Manage and control local project finances and resources.
Applicant Qualifications:
- Electronics engineering and/or mechanical engineering background, with experience in project management.
- Experience working with a phase gate development process, agile and scrum methodologies.
- Solid technical understanding of RFID, UHF, BLE, battery powered devices, access control.
- Solid understanding of computer networks, IT technologies, software & firmware development.
- Experience of working in a multicultural team and in an international environment is essential.
- A collaborative mindset with an open attitude to learn new things.
- An open mind and transparency in results and obstacles.
- A “can do” attitude with the ambition to solve the upcoming obstacles together with a strategic attitude for securing the solutions into the regular processes.
- Prepared to travel on occasion within EMEIA.
- The ability to work in another major European language as well as good English language skills.
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