Senior Project Engineer - Manufacturing Launch (Onsite)

Calance; Liberty (NC); On-site; USD 94,000 - 102,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

EPO/PPO Medical Plans

401K Retirement vesting program (VOYA)

Flex Spending Plan

Voluntary Life, AD&D, STD or LTD plans

Job summary

Calance seeks a Sr. Project Engineer - Manufacturing (New Model Launch) for an onsite, long-term contract in Liberty, NC. You will lead cross-functional launch activities, coordinate with Battery Manufacturing NC, and manage KPIs, schedules, and risk.

Requires 5+ years of project management experience, strong scheduling, KPI reporting, and ability to collaborate across divisions. Travel 10% domestic with some international exposure; on-site work only.

Qualifications

• 5+ years equivalent professional work experience in a project-related role.
• Experience defining standard reporting structure and standardized outputs for KPI and Milestone reporting, including leading project and trials.
• Experience coordinating trial parts orders, schedule creation, and KPI setting/management based on project phase and schedule.
• Project management experience dealing with capital investments greater than $0.5M.
• Experience in creating and maintaining detailed schedules including milestone achievement.

Responsibilities

• Working in a collaborative team environment in a large corporate structure supporting other Engineers, Project Management Groups, Construction Management Group, Purchasing, etc. to develop/execute strategies to achieve project milestones for new model launch.
• Coordinating new model launch activities between multiple divisions and companies (domestic and international) considering every phase of vehicle development through start of production.
• Problem solving issues that have potential impact to successful project or launch execution. Leading coordination across all departments to countermeasure and apply solutions to future projects to prevent recurrence.
• Defining and reporting overall project KPIs and Milestones using the Battery Master Operation Plan (OP). Defining standard reporting structure and standardized outputs for KPI and Milestone reporting.
• Contributing to department and jobway standardization by confirming reflections and feedback to Master OP, developing detailed job instruction documentation, and developing countermeasures for No Repeat.
• Supporting construction activity including coordinating achievement of building preparation milestones, installation kickoffs, Construction Obeyas (Obeya Rooms), and coordinating with the Facilities projects team based on project phase and schedule.
• Supporting pre-production trial activity including coordinating trial parts orders, schedule creation, and KPI setting/management based on project phase and schedule.
• Completing internal and external training
• Supporting additional ad-hoc requests and projects which require cross functional coordination which could include items such as budget, asset management, Shutdowns, and other company initiatives.
• Specific tasks and responsibilities may shift to support the needs of the overall project.

Skills

5+ years project experience

Multi-tasking

Effective communication

MS Office proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Calance seeks a Sr. Project Engineer - Manufacturing (New Model Launch) for an onsite, long-term contract in Liberty, NC. You will lead cross-functional launch activities, coordinate with Battery Manufacturing NC, and manage KPIs, schedules, and risk.

Requires 5+ years of project management experience, strong scheduling, KPI reporting, and ability to collaborate across divisions. Travel 10% domestic with some international exposure; on-site work only.