Project Manager

Job Description -

1. Main Objectives
•    Serve as key point of contact for the customer and company engineering organization 
•    Manage customer and development projects to ensure customer and company success
•    Manage Development activities with cross-functional groups to ensure the projects are within the defined specifications, cost and delivery schedule
•    Own and present technical data, concepts, and specifications to customers
•    Provide timely update to management and project requestors with the clear status of the development projects
2. Responsibilities
•    Interface and engage with customers at the technical and end-user level
•    Translate the information, request or specification given by requestors into the project requirement
•    Prepare cost estimate for engineering hours, prototype spending and final system cost
•    Drive the DFMEA, Risk Assessment and brainstorming for new system or feature development
•    Preparation, planning and coordination of project tasks to ensure compliance with its requirements, schedule and cost, with involved task managers and engineers
•    Management and coordination of the development materials and tools
•    Ensure complete verification and validation, with proper hand-over to operation and field service team including the necessary technical documentations and training
•    Communication of development project related informations to other stakeholders
•    Interface with upper management, engineering, sales, and field service to ensure projects have adequate resources, communicate status, and to coordinate resolution of technical issues
•    Any tasks that may be assigned to you from time to time
3. Essential Quality Expectations
•    Proactively identify opportunities for improvement
•    Seek for continuous improvement in own job processes
•    Provide accurate reporting
4. Authority
•    Access to Cohu Engineering documents needed to fulfill objectives and responsibilities
•    Resource management of Cohu engineering resources in-line with Cohu employment handbook (daily tasks, leave, extra-hours, travels)

5. Requirements & Qualifications
•    Excellent time management and planning skills
•    Experienced in different statistics and quality tools (DFMEA, DOE, and risk assessment)
•    Experienced in working effectively with cross-functional team
•    Strong knowledge on semiconductor equipment process
•    Strong commitment to learning, development and continuous improvement
•    Effective verbal and written communication. Able to clearly convey information and ideas
•    Diplomatic, patience and good listening skills
•    Creative, innovative, out of the box problem solving
•    Willing to travel for about 20% of the time to supplier or customer (local/oversea)