As a leading worldwide provider of navigation devices and wearable technology, our focus is on developing, designing and supporting superior products. Our advanced technology promotes performance, safety and ease of use in every market we serve. That makes us an engineering and technology company with a keen focus on recruiting talent in those fields. But the same vertical integration business model that keeps all design and manufacturing processes in-house also gives us the incentive to hire top performers from different backgrounds, including operations, finance and accounting, information technology, sales, marketing and communications.
Not only is Garmin the leader in all-things GPS, but, if selected as a project manager you’ll be the leader of multiple projects and/or programs, driving accountability of project teams, facilitating design decisions and successfully delivering engineering projects on-time. Our project managers use their knowledge of complex business processes to keep everything in their project portfolio flowing. If organization and leading are your strong points, we need to coordinate a meeting.
We are looking for a full-time Engineering Project Manager 2 on the Auto OEM team at our headquarters in Olathe, Kansas (a beautiful suburb of Kansas City). In this role, you’ll be responsible for applying project management skills on moderately complex projects or tasks, including understanding and communicating milestones, timelines, and project decisions. You will also be responsible for leading effective and efficient team meetings, ensuring team members/stakeholders are appropriately informed, and communicating project tradeoffs and decisions to ensure forward moving progress of the project. Other essential functions include:
- Applies project metrics and risk management principles to identify and mitigate potential schedule impacting items
- Encourages and motivates project team members to accomplish assigned tasks
- Drives the overall progress of assigned projects towards completion, using good judgment in determining when to escalate issues to management
- May perform as a project leader on small to mid-size projects
- Leverages understanding of product domain to support concept/new feature development efforts
- Understands the level of detail necessary to ensure accurate project reporting and consistently provides clear and accurate project documentation
- Understands interdependencies of and demonstrated ability to develop good relationships between the development team(s), other Garmin teams/departments and external entities (e.g. customers, suppliers, etc)
- Creates, processes and releases GPNs, BOMs and ECOs within established processes
- Identifies and resolves possible conflicts
Qualifications
Qualified candidates possess a Bachelors’ of Science degree in a technical discipline from a four-year college or university and a minimum of 2 years’ relevant experience with a 3.0 cumulative GPA. Other requirements include:
- Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Demonstrated proficiency using and applying engineering and project management tools
- Demonstrated understanding of production and operations issues as they relate to engineering project management
- Must be team-oriented, possess a positive attitude and work well with others
Our benefits are designed to lead an evolving marketplace, support innovation and encourage a healthy balance between work and life. They allow our associates to make their own decisions about their wellbeing and future and consistently rank Garmin as a top tier benefits provider when compared to other high-tech employers. We offer a choice of high value medical, dental and vision plans with low or no premiums, to fit your and your family’s preferences. In addition, Garmin’s financial benefits include a generous 401K retirement plan that provides 5% of pay base contribution plus a match of 75 cents for every dollar you contribute to a maximum of 10% of your compensation. The employee stock purchase plan allows for shares to be bought at a 15% discount. Garmin offers many other benefits and perks ranging from wellbeing initiatives, educational assistance and career development, community charity support, and employee discounts just to name a few.
Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.
Job Engineering
Primary LocationUS-KS-Olathe
Organization Consumer Engineering
Schedule Full-time
Job Class Exempt
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