Senior Specialist, Operations Project Manager

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Job Title:
Senior Specialist, Operations Project Manager

Job Code: 34183

Job Location:
Salt Lake City, UT

Job Schedule: 9/80 (employee's work 9 out of every 14 days - totaling 80 hours worked - and have every other Friday off)

Job Description:

The Senior Specialist, Project Manager oversees all Operations efforts relating to contract execution, and is responsible for planning, executing, and monitoring projects from beginning to end, according to strict deadlines and budgets. They act as the point-of-contact between elements of Manufacturing, Procurement, Test, Quality, Engineering, Finance, and Program Management. They ensure cost and schedule conformance on assigned projects by coordinating the procurement, build, and test of complex electronic systems.

A successful candidate should be able to:

• Handle stressful situations with maturity, respect, and confidence
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Be a self-starter with a track record of identifying and implementing creative solutions to complex problems
• Demonstrate attention to detail with strong organizational skills
• Excel in a team environment with the ability to avoid and resolve conflict
• Interpret engineering instructions and drawings
• Understand current and emerging manufacturing processes and methods
• Excel in high stress/high visibility environment, including public speaking and creating formal presentations

Essential Functions:

• Interface and communicate with all levels of the organization
• Assist with the development of resource-loaded Integrated Master Schedules, including tie-ins with Engineering efforts and milestones
• Perform lead-time and critical path analysis on multi-level hardware builds
• Assess cost and schedule risks, and develop associated mitigations
  
  Monitor and report financial, schedule, and technical performance of assigned projects
• Identify and coordinate resources necessary for quick reaction, development efforts
• Work closely with Engineering to identify, mitigate, and execute long-lead material procurement

Required Qualifications (one of the following):

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience.
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree
  , minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional

Skills:

• Direct experience with modern manufacturing processes and techniques
• Knowledge of MRP/ERP and the application of IRAD and Rapid Prototype methodologies
• Experience with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• This position may require overtime, weekend, holiday and/or second shift work
• Knowledge of and experience with L3
  
  Harris products and processes
• Experience in a quick reaction, development, or rapid prototype environment
• Experience with SAP

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