Hardware Project Manager (Vancouver Hybrid)

Motorola Solutions; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Motorola Solutions Vancouver seeks a Project Manager to lead hardware-focused projects within the VS&A Enterprise Physical Security group, coordinating across hardware, firmware, and software teams to drive early scoping, planning, and delivery in a fast-paced environment.

You will create project schedules, monitor progress, manage risks, and ensure high-quality deliverables while facilitating cross-department collaboration with manufacturing and third-party suppliers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Computer Engineering
• 4+ years hardware project or program management experience
• NPI/PLM understanding is a plus
• PMP certification is considered a plus

Responsibilities

• Create complete project schedules with effort estimates and costs
• Project execution according to the approved plan
• Monitor progress, risks, and status updates
• Coordinate with manufacturing for prototypes
• Collaborate across hardware, firmware, and software teams

Skills

Project management

Hardware background

Cross-functional

Communication

Agile PLM

Atlassian tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Computer Engineering

Tools

Agile PLM

Atlassian tools

Job description

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We're a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that's critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Aperçu de l’entreprise

Chez Motorola Solutions, nous pensons que tout commence par nos employés. Nous sommes une communauté mondiale soudée, unie par la volonté incessante de contribuer à la sécurité des personnes partout dans le monde. Nous concevons et connectons des technologies qui contribuent à protéger les personnes, les biens et les infrastructures. Nos solutions favorisent la collaboration essentielle pour améliorer la sécurité des populations, des écoles, des hôpitaux, des entreprises et, finalement, des nations. Connectez-vous à une carrière qui compte et aidez-nous à bâtir un avenir plus sûr.

Department Overview

At Motorola Solutions we are helping solve some of the biggest challenges around safety and physical security by developing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and products that are used to help keep people, businesses, and cities around the world safer. Avigilon, a Motorola Solutions company, designs, develops, and manufactures advanced AI, video analytics, network video management software and hardware, surveillance cameras, and access control solutions that help change the way people interact with their security systems.

Job Description

The Video Security & Access Control (VS&A) Enterprise Physical Security organization Project Management Team has an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to work on the delivery of key products from the company roadmap. Working with an energetic, highly skilled, and diverse team within engineering and across several business functions, the Project Manager will be responsible for early scoping, planning, innovation, execution, control, and closeout of several small to medium-sized projects. Projects are designed and delivered in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment, where customer satisfaction and time to market are key success factors.

Duties vary depending on the nature of projects but will most often include:

• Create complete project schedule and planning documents including, but not limited to effort estimates, resource requirements, and capital costs
• Project execution according to the approved project plan and schedule
• Actively monitor project progress, track outstanding issues and risks and their mitigation plans, follow up on action items, and provide timely project status updates
• Actively manage and support cross-departmental project teams and technical leaders, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality deliverables
• Work with manufacturing teams to plan and coordinate prototype production
• Work with other Hardware, Firmware, and Software project managers to coordinate project dependencies across teams
• Liaise with 3rd party vendors and suppliers as appropriate
• Maintenance of project documentation over the life of the project
• Evolution of project management processes to ensure an efficient project lifecycle

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Computer Engineering
• A solid understanding of NPI projects and Product Lifecycle Management
• A minimum of 4 years of experience in a hardware project or program management role is desirable
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate is considered a plus

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Background in hardware (mechanical, electrical, firmware) design development
• Ability to plan and work in a fast paced environment with competing priorities, tight deadlines, and diverse stakeholders
• Experience developing formal project deliverables including reports, charts, status updates, executive summaries, and presentations
• Understanding of software development and dependencies in relation to hardware delivery
• Exceptional organizational skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills including the ability to deliver presentations and concise updates to project sponsors and senior management
• Proficient use of engineering change management tools such as Agile PLM is considered a plus
• Proficient use of issue tracking and wiki based tools where familiarity with Atlassian tools is considered a plus

Target Base Salary Range: $70,000 CAD - $90,000 CAD

Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.

Note: Candidate will be in the Vancouver office 1-2 days per week.

Basic Requirements

Bachelors degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Computer Engineering

AND 4+ years of experience in a hardware project or program management

Travel Requirements

None

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

No

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic.

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you'd like to join our team but feel that you don't quite meet all of the preferred skills, we'd still love to hear why you think you'd be a great addition to our team.

We're committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation, please complete this Reasonable Accommodations Form so we can assist you.

Motorola Solutions adopte, favorise et promeut les principes de diversité, d'équité et d'inclusion. Nous encourageons et accueillons les candidatures de toutes les personnes qualifiées, quelles que soient leur race, origines ethnique, religion ou croyance, orientation sexuelle, identité et expression sexuelle, statut d'anciens combattants ou tout autre statut protégé par la Loi.

Nous sommes fiers de notre culture axée sur les personnes et les communautés, encourageant ainsi chaque Motorolan d'être la version la plus authentique de lui-même dans ses responsabilités afin de tenir la promesse d'un monde plus sécuritaire.

Si vous souhaitez vous joindre à notre communauté mais croyez que vous ne possédez pas toutes les exigences requises pour le poste convoité, nous aimerions tout de même connaître les raisons pour lesquelles vous pensez être un excellent candidat pour notre équipe.

Nous offrons également des mesures d'adaptation pendant toutes les étapes du processus d'embauche afin de favoriser l'inclusion des personnes vivant avec un handicap physique et/ou mental. Pour demander un aménagement, veuillez remplir ce formulaire d'aménagement raisonnable afin que nous puissions vous aider.