Bosch USA Hiring for R&D Project Manager at Charlotte, NC Full Time

Our drive and control technologies ensure efficient, powerful and safe movement in machines and systems of any size. We inspire our customers with intelligent components, tailored system solutions, and services – from fully connected applications to the factory of the future. Bosch Rexroth is dedicated to making the world a better place through innovation and technology. We are looking for associates who will take on our customers’ challenges with passion and persistence until the right solution is found and who will thrive in a face-paced, collaborative and exciting environment.

Why work with Bosch Rexroth?

• Challenging Projects: We are driven by innovation and being at the cutting edge of everything that we do. At Bosch Rexroth every day is different and your time will be filled with interesting and exciting projects.
• Amazing Colleagues: Our people make us who we are, and we are very proud of our diverse and skilled global team. Having a supportive and encouraging team around you can make all the difference.
• Learning and Development: We want you to reach your fullest potential, for both yourself and for Bosch Rexroth. That’s why we actively promote growth and development.
• Change the World: We want to give you the opportunity to not only drive your career forward but also to change the world. The work we do at Bosch Rexroth can make a big difference to the world around you.
• Social & Value-Driven: We have a tradition of assuming social responsibility in all that we do. Our success, and our roadmap for the future, is based on our lived values. This covers everything, from community to the environment, to being a social employer.
• Flexibility & Freedom: We strive to give you a balance between your work and home life, as well as the freedom to drive your career forward.
• International Opportunities: We are a truly global, fully networked company, with locations in more than 80 countries all over the world.

Job Description

The Engineering Project Manager will manage a continuous pipeline of new product and customer solutions projects to grow revenue and expand margin. This role is accountable for assigned projects’ scope of work, schedule, and budget. This person will facilitate all aspects of multiple projects simultaneously by leading cross functional teams to accomplish specific project objectives. Duties & responsibility will include:

• Utilizing the Bosch Product Engineering Process (PEP) to plan and drive the projects progress through the project phase gates.
• Analyzing assigned projects, establish schedules, actions & project parameters, and drive processes to accomplish objectives.
• Making use of established project management tools to create and manage risk-based project schedules including: generating tasks, estimates, dependencies and milestones.
• Leading a cross functional project teams comprised of product management, engineering, quality, accounting, process development, manufacturing, production planning, logistics, purchasing and other stakeholders.
• Establishing a communication plan with project stakeholders and project steering committee and escalate issues for resolution when appropriate.
• Championing request for capital expenditures with stakeholders and steering committee.
• Assessing cross-functional resource requirements and proactively engage sponsors and functional leaders to fill resource gaps on a timely basis to ensure project success.
• Maintaining internal/external customer satisfaction by investigating concerns, resolving conflict, implementing corrective action, and communicating with project team and stakeholders.
• Contributing to the development of standard work and best practices to enable process continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or commensurate experience with 5-7 years of experience with demonstrated cross functional participation or leadership.
• Experience in cross functional resource planning and team building with engineers, manufacturing, supply chain, and product management.
• Proficient in project management techniques, software and tools.
• Must have financial and business acumen and a proven history of completing projects on time and on budget.

Key Competencies

• Capability to integrate business, marketing and technical elements of a new product or product optimization project, including anticipating issues, mitigating risks, and driving countermeasures to closure.
• Capacity to lead multiple project teams simultaneously directly or indirectly through influence.
• Persistence and tenacity to drive teams to meet or exceed project objectives of scope, schedule, cost and quality.
• Ability to communicate and influence at all levels of the organization.
• Power to resolve conflict, to apply critical thinking to solve problems and to escalate when projects are at risk.
• Able to travel to support projects and manufacturing as needed.
• The individual should be analytical, flexible, team-oriented, have good interpersonal, communication and follow-up skills with a strong drive to bring projects/tasks to completion.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.