Program Manager - Aerospace & Defense

HARTING stands for strong connections – across the globe. As one of the leading international suppliers of industrial connectivity, we are connecting customers to their digital future. And as an employer? We connect around 6,000 people at our headquarter in Espelkamp and at locations worldwide. Here you’ll find great colleagues, as well as ever new opportunities and innovations revolving around IoT and artificial intelligence. In everything we do, we remain true to our roots: as a regionally connected family business that always stays firmly grounded in spite of our stellar high-tech. Here’s to your unique future with us: Yours!

Position Title: Program Manager - Aerospace & Defense

Department: R&D Product Development

Location: HARTING Manufacturing India, Thirumizhasai, Chenna

Qualifications

Education BE /B.Tech Mechanical, Electrical engineering, or comparable education, PMP certified candidate is a plus

Work Experience 6 to 10 years of experience in core New Product Development field of which minimum of 3 years of handling Aerospace projects experience in

project Management.

Roles And Responsibilities

 Project Management in NPD area starts from project kick-off to series production

 Management of projects based on the defined project goals, the specifications of the Project

Management Office, the milestone system at HARTING and the currently valid rules and procedures

for project management

 Definition of the project objectives, i.e. Completion of a target agreement with client and team and

preparation of the project order / Project Plan

 Organization, coordination and control of the overall project process with the involvement of the

respective specialist departments such as Marketing & Sales, R&D, Supply chain, Manufacturing,

Production etc.

 Responsibility for goals, deadlines, costs and services, i.e. rolling planning according to the level of

detail, continuous coordination and tracking as well as release via project order / AFI

 Reporting / escalation, implementation of project reviews

 Execution of project documentation (project review for milestone completion, status display in the

project management tool, project completion report)

 Command and apply various project management methods

 Communication / exchange with the project management office for continuous development of the

project management system

 Working together with the other project managers in coordination and professional management of

parallel running projects

 Managing the KPI’s for the location and presenting to the global forum.

 Participation in customer and project audits

 To cooperate with internal and external team members actively.

 To ensure the action taken at specified time interval

 To monitor the project follow ups as per the planner

 To ensure a report of project management had been shared to the department manager on daily basis

 Ensure a smooth production with a focus on the customer needs.

Join the daily / weekly shop-floor-meetings and provide the NPD relevant information

 Support to Production Team Members in case of problems.

Functional relation with other HARTING departments

 Cross Functional Team especially, Production, Engineering, Quality, SCM and IE.

 On request by the superior manager, the employee besides his actual functions, can be involved to do

other tasks which do not correspond to his routine activities sphere.

Required Experience

 BE /B.Tech with specialization in Mechanical, Electrical engineering, Mechatronics or comparable

education, PMP certified candidate is a plus

 Led product development activities working with hardware engineering and cross functional teams

 7 to 10 years of experience in New Product Development field

 Of which minimum of 5 years of Professional experience in project management

 Experience in the range of Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM)

 Distinctive self-initiative and customer orientation

 Independent and goal-oriented work method

 Secure work with MS-Office incl. MS Project or comparable

 Strong communication skills

 Good command of English

Professional Competencies

Analytical skills

Champion customer satisfaction!

Demonstrate ownership!

Encourage and empower!

Execution

Experience

Initiative

Leadership

Manufacturing Experience

Maturity

Personal suitability

Process Optimization Knowledge

Strategic Planning

Strategic Thinking

Technical

Technological Insight

Culture Competencies

Become better everyday

Break new ground

Champion customers satisfaction

Demonstrate ownership

Trust and collaborate

Benefits: Staff insurance coverage (APAC)