Project Engineering Manager

Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we've enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.

Our Purpose — Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow — comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.

Summary:

Ensures the timely and efficient completion of larger, complicated or multiple projects to achieve company cost and customer service objectives. Acts as project leader with senior level technical responsibility for planning, organizing, and conducting complex technical projects or major phases of projects involving the design and development of new or improved products and/or processes. Responsible for leading a team of product design engineers.

Essential Functions:

• Develops project goals and objectives by reviewing customer specifications and other requirements along with the technical and commercial project proposals, customer statements of work, and conferring with management.
• Ensures projects meet schedule, cost results, and technical expectations through effective project leadership.
• Maintains frequent formal and informal customer interface to present project status; may propose and/or negotiate changes in schedules or specifications.
• Gains customer confidence in overall support of customer programs.
• Determines advanced project specifications/proposals by studying product design, customer requirements (including performance, service and support, and data requirements), completing technical studies; and preparing cost estimates.
• Determines project responsibilities by identifying project phases and elements, assigning staffing and resources, and reviewing technical data and program plans from various customers, business partners, and/or suppliers.
• Ensures coordination of project goals within and across divisions.
• Determines project schedule by studying project plans and specification; calculating time requirements; and sequencing project elements.
• Maintains project schedule/plan by monitoring project progress, coordinating activities, and resolving problems by identifying alternative solutions.
• Prepares project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information, assessing trends; and recommending corrective actions.
• Controls project plan by reviewing design, specifications, and plan and schedule changes; and recommending actions to achieve performance to committed milestones.
• Controls project costs by reviewing non-recurring costs, monitoring and approving expenditures, and administering contractor contracts.
• Applies and leads continuous improvement initiatives through the development of new engineering technology, product development, analytic tools, and key production principles and techniques.
• Verifies product performance by overseeing the designing of detailed plans to verify the performance through similarity, analysis, and conducting tests.
• Maintains engineering project database by establishing engineering history files, project files, and related information to provide repository for technical project activities, current activities, and future records.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing technical publications, benchmarking best practices, and/or participating in professional associations.
• Complies with Parker policies and aerospace industry regulations. Consistently applies established engineering practices, standards, and documentation methods.
• Acts as consultant to top management on significant issues.
• May be responsible for multiple phases of a project and provide leadership to others in department or in integrated product development teams.
• Serves as technical subject expert and resource.
• Shares specialized knowledge with others and ensures knowledge