Senior Technical Project Manager, Advanced Development

Job Description

Are you a curious Senior Technical Project Manager with an interest in play engineering and its progressive potential?

The Senior Technical Project Manager owns the often highly sophisticated projects in Play Engineering, working multi-functional and supporting the projects end to end – from idea to actual manufacturing.

This role is a key member of the Technology Project Office Team, under the Head of Technical Development & Program Management and will have a dotted line to External Manufacturing Leadership Team.

Core Responsibilities

• Working with Engineering colleagues to ensure the development of software & hardware solutions and technology platforms for the complete life cycle utilising the most relevant technology with a dedicated focus on reusability and scalability.

• Working with Operations colleagues to develop underlying manufacturing and test processes to deliver these solutions and platforms “at scale”.

• Lead the project to deliver within the agreed frames of time, cost, quality, and scale.

• Responsible for ensuring adequate progress towards work, including ensuring decisions are made in a timely fashion, review meetings planned, dependencies, tasks delivered as expected, work done within budget and communication made to all team members.

• Drives collective agreement among the multifunctional lead team hereby balancing the interest between engineering and manufacturing, and call out to the SteerCo or Sponsor if agreement cannot be reached.

• Establish and maintain a well-functioning multi-functional team.

• Plan project tasks and activities with workstream leads and ensure coordination across workstreams and other activities.

• Manage change control and ensure that all significant changes to time, cost, quality, and scale realigned by critical collaborators.

• Identify and mitigate all project risks.

Do you have what it takes?

• Extensive hands-on experience in consumer electronics engineering project management and delivery in robotics/mechatronics, mechanical, electronics, systems, or a closely related field.

• Ability to proactively engage with all parts of the project organisation and partners to ensure alignment, reduce risks, and ensure work output.

• Have experience in bringing projects to scale by active dealing with Operations Factory teams as receiving party including insight in manufacturing and test processes.

• Deep understanding of the processes, tools, and ways of working within technology development projects.

• Solid experience in leading a multi-functional team and people in a related field focused on e.g., mechatronics, robotics and/or consumer technologies, in collaboration with multiple cross-organisational teams such as engineering, quality, procurement, and manufacturing.

• A can-do attitude, superb communication, and motivational skills.

• Strong collaboration and partner leadership skills.

• Entrepreneurial spirit with passion for new technologies and to drive innovation.

• Strategic and well-rounded problem solver with attention to detail.

• Ability and willingness to travel as necessary (approx. 20-30 days per year).

Nice to have

• Knowledge of professional systems engineering practices & standard methodologies for the full development life cycle, including planning, risk management, and partner management.

• Technically savvy and capable of having educated discussions with the team about cost, quality and scaling.

• Project Planning Tool experience (e.g. MPP).

• Experience in working multi-functionally with internal and external partners.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

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