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 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.

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

• 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.

• 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