Director, Engineering Projects
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Director of Engineering Project Management leading engineers across global teams at MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions. Responsible for delivering critical engineering projects and improving project management processes.
Responsibilities:
- Lead global team of Engineering Project & Program Managers supporting multiple business units across the global MAES organization
- Develop best in class engineering project management processes & tools to scope, drive, track, and deliver on a variety of global projects including chemical production scaleups, technology development, systems design and engineering, and capital projects including factory builds and expansions
- Directly project-manage critical, high visibility initiatives
- Continuously drive engineering efficiency to improve engineering speed, first-time-right performance, and scope adherence
- Professionally develop the Project Managers, continuously improving skills and behaviors
- Collaboratively develop project plans, status reports, and risk mitigation options with cross functional teams including R&D, Engineering, Operations, CI, Product Line Management, and Quality
- Lead cross functional team meetings, facilitate communication and execution, work with managers to address bottlenecks and resource balancing issues
- Partner with Engineering leadership to CIP existing internal practices and develop solutions
- Develop tools & skillsets within the Engineering Project Management teams that are best practices and translatable across geographic regions and business divisions
- Encourage, cultivate, and grow a culture of Continuous Improvement within the Engineering Project Management teams
Requirements:
- Technical qualification in Science or Engineering at Bachelor Degree level required; Masters and/or MBA desired
- Minimum of 8+ years of project management leadership in one or more of chemical process scaling, electromechanical engineered systems development and release, or capital projects budgeted at over several million dollars
- 10-12+ years experience project management including planning, negotiating resources, driving projects forward, leading cross functional teams without direct line management authority
- Extensive knowledge of project management strategies, tools, and operational approaches to appropriately guide both short- and long-term projects, including projects requiring iterative testing or ambiguous pathways to success
- Experience in defining and establishing new business processes to meet organizational needs
- Ability to manage in both directions, clearly communicating to stakeholders to enable decisions to be made accurately and swiftly
- Experience working in electronics or similar technical industry preferred.
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- 401k plan with company matching
- Life Insurance
- Medical Insurance
- 9 holidays
- Performance related bonus plan


















