Hardware Engineering Project Manager (HW EPM)

ST Engineering iDirect; Sint-Niklaas; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

ST Engineering iDirect is seeking an experienced engineering program leader to drive large hardware development programs from planning to delivery. You will oversee project planning, budgets, and cross-functional execution across multiple locations, collaborating with vendors and stakeholders to meet rigorous milestones.

The role requires strong leadership, communication, and change management skills, with a proven track record in program management and negotiation in a highly technical

Qualifications

• Must have understanding of hardware development lifecycle and regulatory aspects.
• Demonstrated leadership in technical environments.
• Experience leading matrixed, multi-location teams with international exposure.
• Strong program management, communication, and change management skills.
• PMP and Agile/SCRUM certifications are a plus.

Responsabilités

• Deliver large hardware development programs from planning through delivery.
• Oversee engineering project planning aligned with product roadmap.
• Ensure team achieves objectives and milestones within budgets.
• Collaborate with cross-functional/divisional teams to meet goals.
• Drive vendor and stakeholder collaboration with detailed work packages and budgets.
• Provide timely status reporting to customers and executives.
• Forecast resources and manage overall project budget and performance metrics.

Connaissances

Leadership

Project management

Stakeholder management

Team mentoring

Negotiation

Communication

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile/SCRUM

Jira

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in mathematics/engineering

Outils

Jira

BI/Reporting tools

Description du poste

Overview

At ST Engineering iDirect, we’re reshaping the future of global connectivity. As a leader in satellite communications, our groundbreaking technology empowers customers to grow, innovate, and transform their networks. Here, your skills and passion meet our vision and expertise to create something extraordinary. If you're ready to tackle technology’s biggest challenges and redefine how the world connects, the most exciting chapter of your career awaits. With ST Engineering iDirect, the sky isn’t the limit—it’s just the beginning.

Responsibilities

• Successful delivery of large hardware development programs
• Manage overall engineering project planning and delivery in line with product management roadmap
• Assure that engineering team achieves objectives and development plan
• Working collaboratively with cross functional and cross divisional teams to meet defined goals and objectives, as part of overall roadmap and program delivery
• Work with vendors, stakeholders and subject matter experts to develop detailed work package definitions, budget, resourcing plan and implementation plan
• Drive collaboration and teamwork to execute the plan, and monitor progress
• Provide accurate and timely status reporting for internal and external customers
• Manage project forecasting of allocated resources and overall budget
• Measure performance metrics with respect to team productivity and quality
• Manage team budget and resource planning/allocation activities

Qualifications

• Have a good understanding of the life cycle of a hardware development project, the main activities and their interdependencies such as requirements collection, prototype design and validation, BOM cost management, regulatory compliance testing and hand-over from engineering to manufacturing.
• Demonstrated leadership, communication and decision-making skills in a highly technical work environment
• Have an entrepreneurial attitude with a ‘can do’ mentality.
• Experience leading matrixed and multi-location engineering organizations, with international experience
• Strong management, mentoring, relationship management, strategy development, project management, problem solving and change management skills.
• Leadership skills to help the team navigate through a dynamic industry and the ability to demonstrate grace under fire
• Strong program management and negotiation skills, oral and written communication skills, and the ability to work in a team environment are musts.
• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills – oral/written communications, relationship building, negotiation and conflict mediation – across multiple levels in the organization
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high‑pressure environment, able to balance multiple projects and tasks, complete them successfully, and within timelines
• Strong interpersonal skill and oral and written communication skills
• Experience of implementing and controlling change management
• Highly proficient in Jira, Business Intelligence and Reporting industry standard tools
• Experience in leading ESA‑funded projects, compiling ESA project status reports and driving milestone reviews is an asset.
• Additional certification as Project Management Professional (PMP) and Agile development (eg SCRUM) is an asset.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, engineering, a related subject area, or equivalent experience

Experience

• 7+ years of overall engineering experience in hardware development or related technical fields
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience managing telecommunications development and integration engineering teams on implementation of major software/hardware development projects