Project Manager, Senior

Curtiss-Wright Corporation; Oregon; On-site; USD 131,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

401K with Employer Match and Profit-Sh

Health and Wellness Benefits

Learning and Development Opportunities

Referral Program

Competitive Pay

Recognition

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Inclusive & Supportive Culture

Job summary

Williams Controls Inc. in Portland, OR, is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead cross-functional teams on engineering projects, ensuring milestones are met and risks mitigated. The role emphasizes clear communication with design, production, and sales to align on schedules and budgets.

Candidates should have 5–10 years in senior PM roles within manufacturing, a engineering degree, and proven leadership abilities to drive on-time project delivery while meeting customer expectations.

Qualifications

• Five to ten years of experience in a senior project management role in automotive/manufacturing.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Comprehensive project management skills.
• Proven ability to effectively provide leadership to team members to maintain objectives or facilitate countermeasures to realign project deliverables.
• Exposure to cross-functional team approach to product development.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams on projects, defining milestones and reviews to ensure alignment with customer expectations and project plan.
• Facilitate regular project meetings to review schedule, status, and issues; resolve conflicts and mitigate risks toward milestones.
• Provide senior management with status reports highlighting schedule and revenue impacts and project issues.
• Identify opportunities to streamline and improve project and business processes to reduce lag times.
• Communicate with Design Engineers, Materials Manager, Production Manager, Logistics Analyst, Quality Assurance and Sales on project issues.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field

Job description

Senior Project Manager

The Sr Project Manager oversees internal/external customer project deliverables and is responsible for the coordination and completion of engineering projects. The Project Manager is also responsible for tracking all cross-functional team (CFT) deliverables and for driving the resolution of any conflicts that may impact the success of any applicable project(s) launch. This position’s goal is to improve internal and external communications, which will result in completion of projects per the original plan and meet or exceed customer expectations while keeping the product’s fiscal attributes in check.

Location: Portland, OR

Salary Range: $130,800.00 - 174,400.00 per year

Please note that the salary range information provided is a general guideline only, reflecting a position based in Oregon. Criteria such as the candidate’s qualifications and relevant experience, the scope of the specific position, as well as market and business considerations will be evaluated when extending an offer.

We Take Care of Our People

Paid Time Off I 401K with Employer Match and Profit Sharing I Health and Wellness Benefits I Learning and Development Opportunities I Referral Program I Competitive Pay I Recognition I Employee Stock Purchase Plan I Inclusive & Supportive Culture *

Your Challenge:

• Effectively partner with and lead CFT’s on associated projects and developments, ensuring all stakeholders are aware of individual and group responsibilities. Develop, manage and maintain product development and project outline plans; clearly defining all key milestones, phase gate reviews and design reviews.
• Facilitate regular CFT project meetings to review schedule, status, and issues. Ensure maximum efforts and appropriate resources are applied to resolve conflicts and mitigate risks toward achieving project milestones.
• Provide senior executives/management with regular status reports that identify schedule, revenue impacts and program issues. As required, provide best practice advisement on how to deal with associated issues that may arise; effectively eliminating/reducing potentially adverse issues that may de-rail any on-going project(s).
• Proactively identify opportunities for streamlining and improving project and other business processes; thereby reducing lag/ waste times.
• Communicate effectively at a cross functional level including:
  • Daily interface with Design Engineers on issues regarding workloads, prioritization and other project related issues.
  • Daily interface with the Materials Manager, Production Manager and the Logistics Analyst on issues regarding projects, timelines and other outstanding items.
  • Daily interface with the Quality Assurance on issues regarding on-going projects.
  • Daily interface with the Sales team on issues regarding product development, customer feedback and other project related issues.

What you bring:

• Five to ten years of experience in a senior project management role, in an automotive or manufacturing environment.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Comprehensive project management skills.
• Proven ability to effectively provide leadership to team members in order to maintain objectives or facilitate countermeasures to realign project deliverables.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field.
• Exposure to the cross-functional team approach to product development is also desired.

Who We Are

Williams Controls Inc., a business unit of Curtiss-Wright manufactures products such as electronic, hydraulic and pneumatic throttle controls, configurable joysticks, adjustable pedal systems, sensors, hand controls and armrest systems for use on all types of commercial vehicles. The products are the legacy of the Williams Controls company founded in 1937 and acquired by Curtiss-Wright in 2012. Find out more information and view our products here: https://www.cw-industrialgroup.com/About/Williams-Controls

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Compliance Statement

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