Hardware Development Project Manager

OPHIR MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; Presencial; SGD 120 000 - 180 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

OPHIR MANUFACTURING SOLUTIONS PTE. LTD. is seeking a hands-on Hardware Development Project Manager to guide wearables, smart home devices, and networking products from concept to mass production in a lean SME environment.

The role emphasizes end-to-end project ownership, cross‑functional coordination, and clear, data‑driven decision making for global supplier and factory partnerships. Strong communication and stakeholder management are essential.

Qualificações

• 5–7 years of hardware development project management experience in consumer electronics.
• Experience with wearables, smart home/IoT devices, or networking products.
• Experience managing dispersed teams across time zones, especially in Asia.
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Mechanical/Industrial Engineering or related field.
• PMP or equivalent certification is a plus, but demonstrated delivery track record matters more.

Responsabilidades

• Own end-to-end hardware development schedules across multiple product lines from concept through EVT, DVT, PVT, and MP.
• Drive stage-gate discipline with clear actions, owners, due dates, decision logs, and master trackers.
• Coordinate mechanical, PCB, firmware, mobile app, supply chain, manufacturing, and quality workstreams across geographies.
• Translate technical complexity into plain language for founders and senior stakeholders with concise updates.
• Build and maintain cost models covering BOM, tooling, NRE, landed cost per unit, tooling amortisation, and assembly.

Conhecimentos

Hardware development

RF knowledge

Project management

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decisions

Formação académica

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Mechanical/Industrial Engineering

Ferramentas

Excel

PowerPoint

SharePoint

Teams

Descrição da oferta de emprego

About the Role

We are a growing consumer electronics SME delivering wearables, smart home devices, and networking products. We are looking for a hands‑on and resourceful Hardware Development Project Manager to guide products from concept to mass production in a lean environment, without relying on a large PMO structure.

The right person will be comfortable with schedules, cost models, technical details, supplier discussions, and senior stakeholder updates. They should be a strong active listener who can take complex technical input and turn it into clear actions, decisions, and practical business updates.

This role suits someone with calm confidence: able to make decisions, challenge assumptions, and hold people accountable, while remaining self‑aware, collaborative, and respectful of technical expertise.

Key Responsibilities & Deliverables

Project ownership and delivery:

• Own end-to-end hardware development schedules across multiple product lines, from concept through EVT,DVT, PVT, and MP.
• Drive stage-gate discipline with clear actions, owners, due dates, decision logs, and current master trackers accessible to the full team.
• Make timely, data‑grounded decisions based on available information, while being willing to revisit decisions when new information justifies a change.
• Coordinate mechanical, PCB, firmware, mobile app, supply chain, manufacturing, and quality workstreams across geographies and time zones.

Communication and meeting rhythm:

• Design and manage a practical communication cadence covering weekly cross‑functional meetings, milestone reviews, supplier calls, leadership updates, and structured asynchronous follow‑ups.
• Run purposeful meetings with clear agendas, preparation expectations, time control, focused discussion, explicit decisions, owners, deadlines, and concise notes issued within 24hours.
• Know when not to meet: resolve straightforward issues asynchronously, reduce unnecessary recurring meetings, and protect the team's focus time.
• Translate technical complexity into plain language for non‑technical founders and senior stakeholders, including concise PowerPoint updates showing key risks, decisions, and recommendations.

Listening, alignment, and stakeholder management:

• Actively listen in cross‑functional discussions, identify misalignment early, ensure the right voices are heard, and distil engineering, supply chain, factory, and leadership inputs into clear next steps.
• Represent the project with quiet confidence to founders, senior leadership, suppliers, ODM/OEM partners, contract manufacturers, certification labs, and other external stakeholders.
• Follow up with suppliers and partners firmly and professionally when commitments, deadlines, or deliverables are missed, while preserving working relationships.

Documentation, cost, quality, and risk control:

• Own the SharePoint project environment, including schedules, BOMs, ECO logs, risk registers, certification trackers, decision records, naming conventions, and version control.
• Build and maintain cost models covering BOM, tooling, NRE, landed cost per unit, tooling amortisation, assembly, freight, duties, and warranty reserves.
• Track and report metrics such as schedule variance, defect rates, yield rates, ECO frequency, DPPM, first‑pass yield, AQL sampling, cost‑to‑complete, and quantified cost/schedule impacts.
• Manage regulatory certification timelines proactively, including FCC, CE, RoHS, SRRC, MIC, and related RF certification schedule risks.
• Lead factory readiness reviews, oversee initial production ramp, own yield and quality data during PVT an dearly MP, and maintain a living risk register with impact and probability scoring.

Required Skills & Capabilities

Technical:

• Solid understanding of hardware development for wireless connected devices, including Bluetooth, Wi‑Fi, Zigbee,LTE/5G, and systems‑level connectivity stacks such as Wi‑Fi 6/6E/7, BluetoothLE, Thread, and Matter.
• Familiarity with wearable‑specific constraints, including miniaturisation, battery life, FSR/touch input, biometric sensors, IP ratings, and product reliability expectations.
• Working knowledge of RF certification processes, including FCC, CE, SRRC, and related schedule impacts.
• Comfortable reviewing PCB layouts, mechanical drawings, and BOMs, and able to ask the right technical and commercial questions.
• Experience managing firmware and mobile app integration dependencies, with an understanding of DFM/DFA and SMT manufacturing principles.

Project management:

• Able to manage lean, efficient project tracking without depending on enterprise PMO tools.
• Comfortable managing multiple concurrent product lines with limited resources.
• Strong cost awareness in an SME environment, including NRE, tooling, unit economics, budget risks, ECO discipline, and change management.

Numeracy and data:

• Strong numerical literacy across cost models, yield data, production metrics, financial summaries, supplier scorecards, schedule variance, defect data, and cost‑to‑complete reporting.
• Proficient in Excel and able to build cost trackers, schedule dashboards, BOM roll‑ups, data models, landed cost models, and financial‑risk summaries from scratch.
• Able to interpret factory and quality reports, including DPPM, Cpk, first‑pass yield, AQL sampling results, averages, variance, trends, and anomalies.

Core business tools:

• Microsoft Excel: pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, conditional formatting, structured trackers, dashboards, and self‑sufficient data handling.
• Microsoft PowerPoint: clean, well‑structured decks that communicate the essential points without burying the message in detail.
• Microsoft SharePoint: logical document libraries, folder structures, naming conventions, version control, and a single source of truth for distributed teams.
• Microsoft Teams: day‑to‑day communication, asynchronous updates, file sharing, and remote meetings across time zones.

Meeting management:

• Runs meetings only when needed, with a clear purpose, tight agenda, defined outcome, and preparation expectations shared in advance.
• Facilitates with calm authority: manages time, prevents rabbit holes, redirects off‑topic discussion, challenges unsubstantiated positions, and ensures the right people contribute.
• Closes meetings with explicit decisions, named owners, deadlines, and concise notes issued within 24 hours.
• Manages remote, hybrid, milestone, supplier escalation, and executive meetings with composure.
• Protects the team's deep worktime by challenging unnecessary recurring meetings and resolving simple issues asynchronously.

Active listening and information synthesis:

• Exceptional active listening: absorbs what is said and meant, asks clarifying questions, confirms understanding, and pushes back on vague answers without being confrontational.
• Able to process large volumes of overlapping information across multiple product lines and synthesise inputs from meetings, emails, and documents into a coherent project picture.
• Distils dense, technical, or ambiguous information into clear, structured, concise outputs for engineers, factory managers, founders, and senior stakeholders.
• Strong written clarity and pattern recognition, with meeting notes, status updates, action logs, recurring risks, miscommunications, and emerging themes captured early and usefully.

Organisation and structured working:

• Exceptionally organised by default, with a personal task management system that captures commitments, open items, follow‑ups, and priorities.
• Applies repeatable structure to schedules, trackers, logs, reports, version control, naming conventions, and file hygiene, so there is no ambiguity about the current source of truth.
• Proactive rather than reactive: anticipates information needs, prepares in advance, manages time rigorously, brings order to ambiguity, and balances detail with the big picture.

Dispersed team and cross‑time zone management:

• Proven ability to manage geographically dispersed teams and external partners across multiple time zones, with strong asynchronous communication and decision‑log discipline.
• Designs time zone‑conscious meeting schedules, rotates inconvenient slots where needed, minimises unnecessary live meetings, and is comfortable with routine early‑morning or late‑evening calls.
• Culturally aware and experienced with Asian ODM/CM partners, including factory communication cadences, relationship dynamics, and regional working‑style differences.

Confidence and interpersonal style:

• Quietly self‑confident: grounded, prepared, assured, and able to hold a room without needing to dominate it.
• Decisive without being dogmatic; assertive without being aggressive; able to challenge assumptions, deliver difficult messages, elevate risks, and preserve professional relationships.
• Self‑aware and collaborative: comfortable with pushback, does not become defensive, says "I do not know- let me find out" when appropriate, and knows when to lean on others' expertise.
• Earns trust through consistency, reliable follow‑through, clear communication, sound judgment, autonomy, entrepreneurial problem solving, and outcomes rather than personal visibility.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities; highly autonomous in a lean SME environment without needing a large team or formal PMO structure.

Experience Requirements

• 5-7 years of hardware development project management experience in consumer electronics.
• Hands‑on experience with at least two of the following: wearables, smart home/IoT devices, or networking/router products.
• Proven experience managing dispersed teams, external partners, and ODM/CM relationships across multiple time zones, particularly in Taiwan, China, or Southeast Asia.
• Experience working in an SME, startup, or lean team environment is strongly preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• PMP or equivalent certification is a plus, but demonstrated delivery track record matters more.
• Mandarin or Cantonese language skills are a meaningful advantage.

What Success Looks Like in Year One

• Products launch on schedule with no critical regulatory surprises, and cost overruns are flagged early with quantified impact.
• ODM/CM, supplier, certification‑lab, and internal relationships are managed with clear accountability, professional follow‑through, and difficult conversations handled with clarity and composure.
• Distributed team members feel informed, included, unblocked, and comfortable raising issues early; the PM's confidence is stabilising rather than intimidating.
• Meetings are fewer, better, and more useful: each has a purpose, agenda, decision record, action owners, deadlines, and prompt notes.
• The master tracker, action log, decision log, risk register, SharePoint library, cost model, and metrics dashboard are current, governed, and trusted as the source of truth.
• Leadership receives concise, plain‑language project updates with risks, decisions, technical issues, supplier issues, and recommendations surfaced proactively.
• No open actions are orphaned; every item has an owner, due date, status, and active follow‑up.
• A repeatable, lightweight NPI process is established, documented, and understood by the full distributed team.

Working Conditions

• Travel to Asia, including Taiwan, China, and Southeast Asia, approximately 15-25% annually.
• Hybrid or on‑site arrangement depending on location, with close collaboration with the local engineering team expected.
• Routine early‑morning or late‑evening calls to align with Asian partners and cross‑time zone teams are a structural part of the role.
• Flexible working hours are expected in exchange for time‑zone accommodation.