Engineering Project Leader

The Project Leader is responsible for managing multiple moderate to highly complex engineering projects with minimal direction.  Individuals in this position will provide project management and necessary technical direction to assure successful and timely implementation of projects. 
 
Duties and Responsibilities
 

• Provide leadership over moderate to highly complex design projects.  Provide direction, guidance and engineering expertise to team members.  Review work of designers, engineers and other project team members.
• Responsible for the completion of assigned engineering projects within budgetary and scheduling guidelines.
• Communicate, both verbal and written, to assure all groups are working toward the goal of timely project completion.  Communicate technical details, ideas, and concepts to engineers and non-engineers in multiple locations.
• Drive design of project to meet market driven design guides and fulfill cost, timing, reliability, and high volume manufacturing requirements.
• Analyze, evaluate and select from design execution alternatives to best meet specification objectives and implement designs into mass production.
• Accountable for technical elements of project execution including integration of complicated components and assemblies, material selection, packaging and safety, regulatory and standards compliance.
• Conduct design and safety reviews as needed to gain necessary approvals for product development phase progressions.
• Consistently visualize entire scope of a project with very little guidance.
• Schedule, develop agendas, facilitate and documents project meetings.
• Track project schedule to ensure adherence to timelines.
• Regularly makes presentations of project status.
• Identify project risks and implement risk reduction plans.

 
Manufacturing

• Interact extensively with manufacturing plants and outside suppliers to achieve project goals. 
• Make component material or process recommendations.

 
Testing

• Design new experiments and test systems.
• Exhibit vision and foresight to test the extremes of a design and guide the team members through well thought out, logical test regimes.

 
Education and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering.  Graduate studies preferred in the business areas such as Project Management, Finance, Marketing, or Organizational studies.  Formal project management training preferred.
• Minimum of 7 years engineering experience in related field.
• Experience successfully managing low-moderate complexity projects and/or subsystems of larger projects.
• Electrical Project Experience is preferred.
• Must possess a high level of Mechanical/Electrical engineering aptitude including a broad knowledge of engineering materials used in power tools and accessories as well as an understanding of manufacturing process associated with these materials.
• Must have a working design knowledge of a wide variety of the technologies associated with Milwaukeeproducts.  Must be able to personally conduct detailed analyses, or recognize the need and seek the appropriate expertise to achieve the desired results. 
• Ability to draft compressive test plans and specifications.
• CAD Skill Level:  Basic 3D
• Tolerance Analysis:  Statistical
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office software including Microsoft Project.