Engineering Project Manager, Apple Watch, Band DesignAs an Engineering Project Manager (EPM) supporting the Softgoods Program Management organization, you will be responsible for the technical management and support of engineering development for watch bands. The successful candidate will use a solid engineering background to drive day-to-day activities with the team to meet the top level program objectives. The Softgoods EPM focuses on product engineering design, managing development planning and validation cycles.
Description: Enable efficient development by creating and maintaining a streamlined process, capturing parallel designs and clear paths to closure with owners for each action item.Collaborate and facilitate communication across engineering, operations, industrial design, and our vendor partners to meet aggressive cost, schedule, and quality goals.Understand technical issues & complex design trade-offs. Drive to closure by bringing together key stakeholders for decision-making to meet overall project objectives.Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies and facilitate conflict resolution within and between teams, focusing on top level objectives and developing a better course of action.Provide timely issue resolution and critical path management as top priorities shift.Create and maintain detailed project schedules for key enclosure and mechanical components, responding quickly to changes.Understand system-level part interactions, manage a plan to provide key combinations into reliability testing to validate system performance.Coordinate cosmetic and functional partial unit builds for key reviews and early testing.Minimum Qualifications: 1-4+ years of project management experience.Preferred Qualifications: Detailed knowledge of product development cycles.Strong understanding of manufacturing processes.Experience interfacing with Mechanical Engineering/Design, Operations, and Vendors.Experienced in setting up project schedules and work breakdown structures.Excellent communication, presentation, organizational and leadership skills.Strong interpersonal skills, oriented toward teamwork.Ability to filter and distill relevant information for the right audience.Self-motivated and proactive, demonstrating creative and critical thinking capabilities.Understands and deals well with rapid development cycles; remains flexible and calm in the face of ambiguity.Ability to travel internationally to support builds (up to 20%).Any of the following is also a plus:Experience as a practicing engineer.Experience in textile / wearable products.Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.
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