Lead Project Engineer

Our Company

Lancer Worldwide, a Hoshizaki Company, is an award-winning global leader in beverage dispensing. Through innovation and a commitment to dedication in action, we create products that benefit our customers worldwide, and give them a distinct advantage in the marketplace. We offer our teammates the opportunity to grow personally and professionally, to contribute to the success of a dynamic organization, and to serve others in a manner that exceeds their expectations.

We welcome talented, passionate, and highly motivated individuals to join our team.

The Lead Project Engineer is responsible for: creating project plans, executing, managing work, tracking, reporting progress, communicating with stakeholders, training, and educating stakeholders, and continuously improving the various cross-functional processes for execution of projects in the Lancer Engineering department. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with the engineering resource managers, keep the team focused and motivated throughout the development and industrialization cycles, ensuring the on-time delivery of tasks as per approved plans.

• Apply effective Project Management Techniques, tools and processes to deliver electromechanical modules, assemblies, and final products as per approved plans.
• Utilize Product Life Cycle (PLC) process, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and Enterprise Resource Management (ERP) to manage new products from inception to obsolescence.
• Motivate the team to deliver with quality and sense of urgency.
• Understand the product development flow, and propose improvements.
• Take high-level requirements and map them into the appropriate development team resources with support from the engineering managers, to ensure successful delivery per approved plan.
• Keep the team focused and motivated throughout the development cycle, ensuring the on-time delivery of tasks as per the approved plans.
• Create and maintain project plans for the engineering teams.
• Manage outsourcing of development activities at engineering service provider, suppliers, and other partners.
• Maintain frequent and clear communication with managers and other stakeholders to communicate risks, highlight important changes to priorities, requirements, status, and impact to agreed plans.

• Experience in project management of engineering products.
• System understanding of mechatronics projects (both hardware, firmware, and software).
• Good process background:
  Project management certification a plus (e.g. PMI or PDMA).
• Ability to understand systems specifications, test specifications, datasheets, charts, and reports.
• Ownership mentality, desire to deliver top quality at right cost, first time right.
• Highly motivated, desire to solve problems and succeed (self-starter and driven).
• Excellent written and oral communications skills, ability to provide project planning with sound technical trade-off arguments.
• Good team player who works well in a multi-discipline, multi-cultural, technology and manufacturing environment.
• Led project team of 5-20 engineers, designers, and technicians, in-house and outsourced, geographically dispersed.
• Experience with electronic, mechanical, or mechatronics New Product Design/Introduction (NPI/D).
• Familiarity with stage gate methodologies.
• Familiarity with electronics, or mechanical, or mechatronics manufacturing and operations.
• Knowledge about Engineering Change Management, Engineering Change Requests/Orders/Notices.
• Good Technical Presentation Skills. Experience presenting to executive leadership.
• Strong English communication skills, both written and oral. Spanish is a plus.
• Experience working in a project-oriented team.
• Ability to prioritize tasks in a fast pace and dynamic environment.
• Can observe and respond to people and situations and interact with others encountered in the course of work.
• Can learn and apply new information or skills.
• Must be able to read and interpret data, information, and documents.
• Strong customer focus and commitment to customer satisfaction through prioritization, quality, efficiency, and…