Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate all project elements including engineering design, quality planning, manufacturing, installation, commissioning and final buy-off phases
- Manage the project within budget
- Plan project requirements and resources, including the sourcing of subcontract elements, etc.
- React promptly and effectively to changing client and product needs
- Anticipate any potential project risks, identifying and establishing corrective actions
- Produce deliverables on-time to customer requirements, clarifying these requirements where necessary
- Define the customer specification into either a departmental action or subcontractor order
- Accurately cost any changes in specifications
- Effectively analyse customer and internal changes, including feasibility study
- Produce clear, focused and understandable explanations for change requests
- Track customer changes
- Raise timely and correct purchase requisitions on Standard Analyses: Purchasing Information System (SAP)
- Participate in Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEAs), Quality history reviews, robustness studies, etc
- Manage Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) processes
- Track tasks against the project timing plan
- Assist with design verification and sign off reporting
- Apply specific technical skills as required to support the customer or colleagues
- Proactively seek out opportunities for new or repeat business
- Write proposals and reports with all necessary backup material
- Develop innovative solutions to unique problems· Develop and maintain expertise
- Keep up with current and developing engineering trends
- Undertake special projects as required
- Contribute to continuous improvement activities
- Quality control of work by appropriate reviews
- Support and lead process improvement activities
- Write reports and present progress at project meetings and to clients
- Estimate budgets and manpower required for projects
- Achieve goals within budget
- Conduct benchmarking studies to determine best practices/designs and future trends
- Plan projects or subtasks so they may be tracked and presented
- Manage the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Produce written reports and make presentations
- Undertake continuous training and development
- Perform root cause analysis and resolve problems
- Independently determine approach and assigned task