Project Leader 2

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Summary: 

• The Project Leader2(PL2) has technical responsibility of IQP 3 to 5 projects with an estimated engineering count of xxx-xxx FTEs.
• The responsibilities of a PL2 are to manage the technical project activities in accordance to agreed deliverable, quality and cost as well as ensuring compliance with customer requirements.
• Additional responsible are to qualify the internal staffing of projects, develop and adhere to project timeline and report the operational situation during internal reviews.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty in accordance to defined standards.
• Other duties or tasks may be assigned as required.
• The essential duties and responsibilities are as followed:

Customer/Bid & Offer

• Review technical requirements set by customer
• Participate in quotation activities
• Support client meetings and on/off -site visits
• Monitors delivery progress with the customer
• Support negotiation with the customer

Project Management

• Monitor delivery progress on projects
• Manage technical scope of the projects
• Responsible of the quality of the deliverables
• Prepare customer Steering Committee meetings
• Evaluate activities/roles that should be near-/offshore, if any
• Support definition of roles and responsibilities in the project organization​
• Monitor the technical skills of the team members
• Support validation of the project organization and the team members
• Reports operational situation during monthly financial review​s
• Report if technical/project training is needed in projects

Internal

• Forecast of project Margins
• Inform Project Coordinator of monthly invoice amount
• Reports operational situation during monthly review

Supervisory Needs and Responsibilities'

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform according to the level(s) of supervision listed below.  

Managerial supervision

• An individual will be responsible for supervising and managing a team.
• An individual is expected to provide guidance, assign tasks, set goals, and evaluate the performance of their team members.

Directorial supervision

• An individual will operate with a high level of authority and is expected to make strategic decisions independently.
• An individual will work closely with executive leadership to align department's goals with the overall organizational strategy and report on department's performance.
• May provide guidance and mentorship and support their team members in acquiring new skills and knowledge.             

Minimum Qualifications and Skills:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual should be able to meet each requirement satisfactorily.
• The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from a technical college or university in Business, Management, or Engineering or another technical/scientific discipline and combined minimum 7 years of engineering and project management experience (minimum 5 years of engineering/product development experience, minimum 2 years of project lead/management experience in a technical field).
• An advanced degree may be substituted for experience.
• Must possess hands-on experience with project management and project management leadership.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual should be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability preferred.

Language Ability

• Ability to read, write, speak, analyze and interpret all forms of communication and business correspondence, primarily in English.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to systematically analyze complex problems, draw relevant conclusions and implement appropriate solutions.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Computer Skills

• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of the following software programs:
• Microsoft Office suite of programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, and Outlook).

Other Skills/Abilities/Specifications

• Demonstrated ability to manage projects successfully to customers requirements (scope, cost, schedule, margin, delivery of contractual deliverables)

Physical Demands and Working Environments

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit.
• The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• In-office setting, where most work is conducted in community work areas.
• Private meeting spaces are available when necessary. 
• Occasional visits to customer locations may be required.

ALTEN Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our Policy is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual’s age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression or veteran status.

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