Description:

Leads project teams from concept to post release with strong sense of urgency, utilizing company product launch process (stage-gate). This may include the facilitation of development brainstorming Kaizen events, and post-launch activities intended to support a smooth transition into production.• Projects may vary from New Product Development, Product improvements, transformation, value engineering, strategic sourcing, warranty reduction, or other initiatives• Project Scope may include connected products hardware, Software Development (SW), and/or Web & Mobile Applications (iOS/Android) projects from concept to post release.• Project activities may include facilitation of development Blitz or brainstorming Kaizen events, chair project meetings, update task, budget, and resource progress on weekly schedule updates, and logs issues, risks, Lessons learned, and documents contingency plans for all projects.• Project Manager will lead with a steady focus on Scope Control, Schedule Updates, Budget tracking, and Risk Mangement throughout the life of the project.• Responsible for managing Med-large scale and/or moderately complex departmental and cross-functional development projects.• Collaborates with engineering, product management, operations, supply chain, finance and all other stakeholders to identify and prioritize critical project milestones and deliverables.• Identifies and schedules project deliverables, milestones and daily task activities with tenacious followup to ensure deliverables are delivered on-timeLeads weekly cross-functional project meetings and maintain minutes/notes/action items• Continuously gathers feedback from all project team members to track progress and mitigate risk.• Identifies project related issues and risks, documents all risks in the risk database, and escalates tosponsor’s and Functional Management early to facilitate mitigation before they effect critical path.• Maintains awareness of technical progress and risks for assigned projects, confers with technicalpersonnel to resolve issues, and drives corrective actions.• Confers with project personnel to resolve problems. Not directly responsible for technical accuracy ofdesign details, is expected to have sufficient knowledge and awareness to recognize when technicalproblems may exist and to identity and initiate corrective actions.• Coordinates project activities with cross-functional team members to ensure project goals andrequirements are met on schedule and within budget.• Prepares project status reports and facilitates both technical and non-technical meetings, designreviews in order to keep stakeholdes up-to-date and able to support risk/issue mitigation requests• Develops and maintains technical and project documentation, including project/process deliverables.• Learns and masters all requirements of Pentair’s stage-gate processes.• Works collaboratively with other Pentair global design centers, manufacturing plants and strategicsuppliers as needed.• Documents all Risks, Issues, and lessons learned for continuous improvement

Skills:

Project management, manufacturing environment, Engineering, Project coordination, product development life cycle, project planning, engineering project, pmp certification

Top Skills Details:

Project management,manufacturing environment,Engineering,Project coordination,product development life cycle,project planning,engineering project

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

B.S. degree in Engineering, or other technical discipline, from an accredited institution (MBA oradvanced technical degree is a plus).• Project Management education; Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is desirable.• 5 years leading cross-functional project teams without direct supervisory responsibilities.• 5 years of engineering design or manufacturing experience in a med-high volume production, productdevelopment environment.• 2 years of managing project teams developing consumer product products that may include hardwareand with embedded firmware, software, and App is desirable.• Previous IoT connected product development experience is highly desirable (cloud/server services, Wi-Fi modules, C/C software bridges from product to the cloud).• Experience working with, developing, or managing the development of consumer mobile Apps(iOS/Android) as related to hardware deployment is highly desirable.• Highly detail oriented, organized, and organizationally agile individual preferred with innate/naturalrelationship building communication skills.• Knowledge of product development process (stage-gate, predictive, agile and hybrid methods)• Knowledge and experience in consumer product development

Experience Level:

Intermediate Level

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