Engineering Project Manager, Apple Watch, Product Design

Summary

As an Engineering Project Manager (EPM) supporting the Watch Product Design (PD) organization, you will join a team of PD EPMs that is responsible for technical project management and assisting engineering development with one of our Watch PD teams. The successful candidate will be a fearless organizer, utilizing a solid Mechanical Engineering background to drive day-to-day activities with the team to meet the top level program objectives. The PD EPM focuses on system-level mechanical engineering design, managing development planning and validation cycles.

Description

The PD EPM focuses on system-level mechanical engineering design, managing development planning and validation cycles.

Responsibilities

• Enable efficient development by creating and maintaining a streamlined process, capturing parallel designs and clear paths to closure with owners for each action item
• Drive upstream component/module builds to fulfill system engineering build demands. Key contributor to system build planning and execution
• Collaborate and facilitate communication across multiple engineering teams, operations, industrial design, and our vendor partners to meet aggressive quality, schedule, and cost goals
• Understand technical issues and complex design trade-offs. Drive to closure by bringing together key stakeholders; facilitating decision-making discussions to meet overall project objectives
• Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies and facilitate conflict resolution within and between teams, focus on top level objectives and develop best course of action
• Create/maintain complex and detailed project schedules for product enclosure and internal mechanical components. Respond quickly to changes and minimize project impact
• Provide timely issue resolution and critical path management as top priorities shift
• Understand system-level part interactions (mechanical, electrical, RF); manage a plan to provide key system configurations into reliability testing to validate performance
• Coordinate cosmetic and functional partial unit builds for key reviews and early testing
• Offer multiple levels of status across a wide spectrum of individual contributors to executive management

Minimum Qualifications

• Engineering degree or equivalent required; BSME Preferred
• 2+ years prior product development experience in project management or mechanical engineering design
• Detailed knowledge of product development process and cycles
• Strong understanding of mechanical engineering fundamentals and manufacturing processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience interfacing with mechanical engineering/design, operations, and vendors
• Experience setting up project schedules and work breakdown structures
• Excellent communication, presentation, organizational and leadership skills. Able to filter and distill relevant information for the right audience
• Strong interpersonal skills, oriented toward teamwork
• Self motivated and proactive, demonstrating creative and critical thinking capabilities
• Understands and able to handle rapid development cycles well; remains flexible and calm in the face of ambiguity
• Ability to travel internationally to support builds
• Any of the following is also a plus:
• Experience in consumer electronics
• Experience as a practicing engineer
• Experience with high-volume manufacturing