Senior Engineering Program Manager

Overview

Rapiscan Systems is an industry leader in detection technology, providing cargo and vehicle inspection systems and services for ports, borders, military, high-threat facilities, and checkpoints to help customers combat terrorism, drug smuggling, illegal immigration, and trade fraud. We offer a broad array of scanning system configurations that leverage low-, medium-, and high-energy X-ray technology—or multiple X-ray technologies—to address each customer’s unique security application requirements. Our commitment to excellence in imaging performance, innovative design, and uncompromising quality ensures our solutions consistently deliver best-in-class imaging, high reliability, and operator satisfaction, to help customers find threats and contraband with ease and confidence.

The Senior Engineering Program Manager shall be responsible for managing the programs/projects within Aviation Checkpoint Inspection of Rapiscan Systems Engineering. The successful candidate should have considerable project management experience with a proven track record of delivering programs/projects within timescale and to budget. In addition, he/she should have experience of portfolio/PMO management, developing standards and processes, supporting project managers in achieving the successful programs/project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the definition of project scope, goals and deliverables.
• Develop an effective relationship with internal and external stakeholders, especially internal operation teams.
• Work closely with chief engineers and cross-functional teams to deliver new product development projects on tight timescale. Define plan, schedule, tasks and ensure the new product requirements are being met.
• Manage the day-to-day project activities and effectively control the project execution. Facilitate regular project meetings and manage actions.
• Accountable for the identification and management of project risks and issues along with mitigation and/or workarounds to enable rapid decision making. Escalate risks and issues, with mitigations to the senior management team when outside of agreed plan in terms of timescale, cost, and quality.
• Responsible for delivery of all key milestones/stages according to the product development process, and present/summarize status of the project to senior management team at the key stage review meeting.
• Manage and maintain project reporting and tracking tools.
• Maintain and monitor project plans, project schedules, budgets and cost.
• Standardize and enhance project-related governance processes and tools to support the sharing of the resources.
• Ensure projects adhere to governance frameworks and documentation is maintained appropriately for each project. Responsible for providing oversight of all key new product development projects.
• Provide regular, precise, and effective status updates on key programs, processes and metrics.
• Analyse financial data, including project budgets, cost, risks, resource allocation and impact of changes.
• Identify the resource requirement at portfolio level and review regularly with the Engineering Director for the resource allocation, where appropriate, ring fence the resources based on the business priorities.
• Continuously evaluate programs/projects to ensure they are meeting company’s standards and processes, adhering to budgets, and meeting deadlines.
• Accurately document the project's creation, development, and execution as well as document the project's scope, budget, key decision making and justification.
• Uphold the company’s core values of Integrity, Innovation, Accountability, and Teamwork.
• Demonstrate behaviour consistent with the company’s Code of Ethics and Conduct.
• It is the responsibility of every employee to report to their manager or a member of senior management any quality problems or defects for corrective action to be implemented and to avoid recurrence of the problem.
• Duties may be modified or assigned at any time to meet the needs of the business.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 5+ years’ experience in Program/Project management preferably within Product and/or Technology development industries.
• Line management or team management experience and strong leadership skill.
• Experience managing the new product development in an engineering environment.
• Experience managing the full project life cycle from the concept to product launch.
• Experience managing and executing detailed project schedule to track milestones across multiple stakeholders
• Prince 2, PMP certification and the good knowledge of Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Personal Attributes:

• Ability to operate and communicate to multiple levels.
• Good interpersonal and multi-tasking skills.
• Ability to prioritize the projects in line with the business direction.
• Ability to juggle multiple projects, activities.
• Demonstrable proactive and analytic approach.
• Conscientious, approachable, and enthusiastic.
• Adaptable, flexible, and able to bring the best out of the team.
• Attention to detail. Think strategically and execute methodically.
• Excellent communication skills in English to communicate in written, verbal and presentation.

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OSI Systems, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively “OSI”) does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. If any person or entity, including a recruiter or agency, submits any information, including any resume or information regarding any potential candidate, without a signed agreement in place with OSI, OSI explicitly reserves the right to use such information, and pursue and/or hire such candidates, without any financial obligation to the person, recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited information or resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are considered and deemed to be the property of OSI.

OSI Systems, Inc. has three operating divisions: (a) Security, providing security and inspection systems, turnkey security screening solutions and related services; (b) Healthcare, providing patient monitoring, diagnostic cardiology and anesthesia systems; and (c) Optoelectronics and Manufacturing, providing specialized electronic components and electronic manufacturing services for original equipment manufacturers with applications in the defense, aerospace, medical and industrial markets, among others.