Sr Project Engineering Manager

Sr Project Engineering Manager

SWISSto12

Lausanne, Switzerland

We are looking for a Sr Project Engineering Manager to join our EW/SIGINT and SATCOM team.

In this role, you will be responsible for the following:

• Lead all phases of the assigned project- from initiation through delivery to the customer;
• Hold accountability for program success on key parameters: customer satisfaction, technical performance compliance, on time delivery, on quality delivery, program financial performance;
• Work in close cooperation with the customer to ensure contractual compliance and a shared understanding of the program execution;
• Act as a customer point of contact for program activities, including feedback, interactions, and improvements;
• Define with the project team the product development plan, prioritize the activities in order to ensure the most valuable and proper functionality of the product deliverable;
• Lead the partners and major suppliers including reviews and deliverables;
• Maintain & track the program’s requirements and the change order process;
• Apply state-of-the art project management and engineering processes throughout design, manufacturing, assembly, integration and testing;
• Perform risk and opportunity management and provide leadership and direction to the continual risk management process;
• Be responsible for the program documentation and commissioning processes;
• Travel as needed;
• Occasionally, you will be asked to participate in overall tasks and services inherent to a dynamic fast-growing company.

Required experience and competencies:

• Extensive experience as a project manager or system engineer in a high-tech hardware product industry, ideally for 7 years or more;
• Engineering degree in a technically pertinent domain: electrical or aerospace engineering or physics or mechanical;
• Curious and creative in approaching cutting edge products in the defense, aeronautics and space industries;
• Excellent customer focus with experience managing customers and supplier interfaces;
• Demonstrated ability to work with a team on resolving complex technical problems and complex management activities;
• Excellent communication skills and ease at working across different cultures and different levels of an organization;
• Proven ability to write clear technical, quality and management documents;
• Language: Fluent English is a prerequisite, skills in French are a plus.

Would be a strong plus:

• Experience in aerospace and defence complex system design;
• A system engineering background;
• A background in RF technologies communication systems;
• A good knowledge of precision mechanical production and material engineering.

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