Senior Project Manager

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER

Saw Stop, the world leader in power tool safety, is looking for driven, passionate engineers to join our growing engineering team. Our engineers develop world class products that improve the lives of users by preventing devastating and life-changing table saw injuries.

Experience this incredible innovation firsthand by joining our dedicated team of highly talented engineers. We offer a fun, fast-paced environment that supports practical innovation – creating new products that are meaningful for our customers. You'll be able to immediately make meaningful contributions to our next generation of products.

Teamwork and collaborative discussions are second nature to us at Saw Stop, and we thrive working side-by-side with subject matter experts on safety system designs, electrical motor controls, and other new concepts for improved systems and completely different tools.

Join our team and make a difference in the success of Saw Stop and the lives of thousands of users.

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for driving successful delivery of Saw Stop's most ambitious new Product Development (NPD) initiatives, often managing multiple complex projects concurrently; balancing cost, schedule, and performance objectives according to business priorities. Close collaboration with Engineering, Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Service, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, Operations, and vendor partners is required. The Senior Project Manager will lead NPD projects from kickoff through product launch, and thus will frequently represent the status and needs of these initiatives to an executive audience.

• Project Planning
  • Facilitate the team's collaborative refinement of the project scope, based on business goals and resource considerations.
  • With an aligned scope, explore and document the appropriate functional work plans and inter-team dependencies required to deliver the product with input from team members and managers, as appropriate.
  • Develop and maintain an appropriately detailed project schedule that the project team can commit to delivering and the stakeholders can commit to support.
  • Clearly and regularly communicate project assumptions, risks to delivery and opportunities for improved outcomes to stakeholders
• Project Execution
  • Single-point accountability for strategic project success; true pivot / center locus for project communication with the empowerment to engage with the full executive leadership team (ELT) in order to ensure clear lines of escalation if required for project success
  • Coordinate project team activities to ensure deliverables are on time, at cost, within budget, and meet expected quality and performance targets
  • Track project team progress to plan and work with team proactively to identify and implement mitigations
  • Coordinate and track relevant activities owned by contract manufacturer(s)
  • Anticipate project team deliverables in all phases, and clearly understand the philosophies of the various NPD phases
  • Communicate the maturity level and technical risks of various aspects of the product and secure additional subject matter expert feedback when needed
  • Regularly solicit feedback from project team members, their functional managers, and stakeholders to understand what they need to be successful individually and together on the project
  • Proactively identify and eliminate barriers to the project team's progress to committed plan
  • Continuously identify, assess, and update the project issues and risks, effectively evaluate and prioritize mitigation plans including escalations or special approval cycles if needed
  • Coordinate preparation for all project builds through initial production run
  • Lead project risk management analysis and planning meetings
• Project Financials
  • Prepare and update project expense & tooling budgets
  • Monitor project expense and capital budgets relative to plan, provide regular updates to stakeholders, and provide options to remedy any meaningful departures from committed budget.
• Project Reporting and Communication
  • Schedule, create agendas, facilitate, and document regular project meetings
  • Initiate on-demand topical discussions with…