Hardware Project Manager

Technical Project Manager (1-year contract)
- Hybrid role in the Tewksbury, MA area.
- U.S. Citizens only.
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Job Description

• Integration and coordination across functional teams, including Hardware Engineering, Software Engineering, System Architecture, Integration, Quality, and Documentation to facilitate the effective on-time/on-budget development and delivery of Client's products and system solutions.
• Serves as the primary liaison between the engineering project team and other stakeholders (ie. Marketing, Sales, Operations, Program Management, Product Management, Technical Support, and Senior Management)
• Accountable for the success of assigned projects (within budget, on schedule and meeting customer expectations)
• Interact with stakeholders to understand the business needs, communicate project status and develop relationships to ensure satisfaction while minimizing project risk
• Develop project plans, risk mitigation plans, tasks, budget, deliverables, dependencies and resource requirements to ensure on time delivery
• Oversee project deliverables, intervening when necessary to adjust priorities, move aggressively toward resolution of key delivery and customer issues, optimize for product line quality, timeliness and flexibility
• Interact with and synchronize all key members of the project team and stakeholders
• Regularly interacts with Executives and/or Major Customers
• Negotiating with customers, management, and senior level leaders regarding matters of significance to the organization

Additional Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

Previous ASIC/FPGA experience working as an engineer on previous jobs, or managed this type of project as a PM.  There is no ASIC/FPGA development experience with this job, but helpful to have knowledge of related projects/products when dealing with the hardware engineering team.

• Project Management experience with real-time or multicomputer systems
• Effective communication skills and strong attention to detail
• Familiarity with scheduling, tracking and risk management techniques and tools
• Experience identifying and implementing process improvements across an organization
• Knowledgeable in all phases of the product development life cycle from requirements through design, implementation and integration
• Strong team building, interpersonal and personnel development skills
• Experience with Atlassian JIRA and Confluence a plus
• Experience managing system and subsystem integration projects a plus
• Engineering design background a plus
• Project management experience in defense electronics a plus
• An active Secret Clearance or the ability to obtain a Secret Clearance a plus.

Education:
BSEE/BSME/BSCS or equivalent years experience in a Computer Systems Environment

MBA Preferred