Failure Analysis Engineering Project Manager - Cupertino, CA

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Technical/Functional Skills :

• Jira 

• Quip 

• Tableau 

• Slack

• Failure Analysis

• Project Management

Roles & Responsibilities

Summary

Do you have a passion for project management and the attention to details that enable cross-functional project success?  We are a company that creates the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of the people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do!  The team is looking for a passionate, self-motivated and dynamic Engineering Project Manager to join a diverse team. We work in a highly collaborative and multi-functional environment, with multiple deadlines, handling numerous projects at a time. You will take responsibility for cross-functional projects involving differing business partners and ensure that they are planned and executed on time. This is a great opportunity to be a technical leader at a leading Silicon Valley company. Let’s do our best work together!

Key Qualifications

• 2+ years relevant experience in a project management or engineering management role with a diverse array of projects and timelines.

• Facilitate communication across a project and alert broader team of changes to scope, timeline and resources

• Familiarity with a variety of materials characterization techniques (CT, OM, SEM, FTIR, XPS, etc)

• Ability to prioritize and multi-task with strict deadlines on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment

• Strong interpersonal skills are important, along with the ability to operate comfortably in a fast moving and flexible environment

• Ability to collaborate with different teams including engineering, operations, business functions and external vendors, using influencing skills to drive decisions and meet specific deadlines

• Analytical thinker who is data driven, with a can-do attitude and flexibility to accommodate evolving business needs

• Strong problem resolution, problem solving, and presentation skills

• Ability to articulate complex business and technical situations to a variety of audiences

• Proven strong technical skills in hardware

Description

You will be responsible for managing projects from cross-functional teams related to failure analysis and materials characterization. Responsibilities will include alignment with project initiators, determination of the project lead, defining budgets and obtaining approval, regular communication of status and critical issues to a wide partner group, escalation of impacting issues to project initiators and tracking and delivery of project goals within the agreed schedule. 

• Lead efforts on project management for a Failure Analysis (FA) team

• Develop strong links with the team of engineers, partner teams in other company functions and key external vendors 

• Apply best-in-class project management methodologies on all projects 

• Implement an effective communication strategy to ensure that all project partners are kept fully informed on project progress 

• Ensure that projects are well scoped, utilize appropriate resources and apply well-costed solutions 

• Provide succinct and accurate updates

• Ensure that the team meets its key goals and critical issues are clearly understood and communicated

• Flexible to deal with fast-changing business environments and focus on measurements including cost, quality and availability

• Tracking purchases across the organization and managing budget tools

• Flexibility to coordinate with global teams across multiple time zones

  

• Jira 

• Quip 

• Tableau 

• Slack