Location: 3814 Jarrett Way #1212, Austin, TX 78728 -> Hybrid 3 days a week (you can pick which days)
Salary: $90,000 with 10% bonus
Start Date: End of December early January (flexible)
Interview Process: 2 rounds, first over teams, final in person
Team:
Report into Director of Program Management: 5 people total (2 senior program managers, 3 program managers)
Independently manage programs with a strong focus on risk management and cross-functional communication.
Actively engaged across functional areas to address supplier, operational, and design challenges, ensuring program requirements are met.
Primary focus on hardware waterfall, General Agile experience on software side.
Role Level: Individual contributor with the potential for progression to program or senior management, and eventually, people leadership roles.
Must Haves :
3-5 years, ideally in refined fuel, oil and gas, or other engineering product sectors for hardware program or project management.
Bachelor's degree in engineering, manufacturing, or another technical field.
Experience with waterfall hardware implementation, ranging from mechanical components, new equipment design through some software.
General Agile experience on software side.
Plusses:
PMP certification preferred
Experience managing new product/technology introductions, including supply chain readiness, is strongly preferred
Software program management and/or software/hardware integration experience is a plus
Able to manage waterfall and hybrid project delivery methods
Experience in the retail petroleum industry is a plus
Experience with cloud IoT and management of implementations involving customers, partners and service providers is a plus
Responsibilities:
Stakeholder Engagement
Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Service and other cross functional extended team leads to translate the product vision and strategy into a project plan within the overall NPD framework.
Ensure that key program stakeholders are fully engaged in and aligned with the program deliverables, progress and emerging risks.
Project Management & Control
Execute DFS' New Product Development processes, including but not limited to project gate transitions and change management processes.
Drive process discipline and accountability throughout the planning, execution, monitoring, and successful completion of projects.
Develop and maintain project plans and status reports, manage project resources, engage cross-functional teams to provide quality analyses, coordinate beta plans, track and report defects and defect resolution, complete final documentation, training, and coordinate product launch plans.
Prepare and manage project budgets and facilitate and communicate periodic cost analyses.
Business Acumen
Understand the business imperative of the projects being led to effectively drive program delivery.
Clearly communicate all project-level financial commitments to core team members and stakeholders.
Technical Acumen
General knowledge of Hardware and/or Software development. Understand the technology concepts used on projects in enough depth to challenge assumptions, estimates, approaches, and risks. Possess general understanding of technical design, implementation, and quality assurance.