Project Manager 2 - Fitness
Garmin - Olathe, KS
Employment Type : Full-Time
We are seeking a full-time Project Manager for our headquarters in the greater Kansas City area. In this role, you will be responsible for providing project management and coordination for moderately complex projects between project team and other departments in the development of Garmin products.
Essential Functions
- Applies project management skills on moderately complex projects or tasks, including understanding and communicating milestones, timelines, and project decisions
- Leads effective and efficient team meetings, ensures team members/stakeholders are appropriately informed, and communicates project tradeoffs and decisions to ensure forward moving progress of the project
- Supports creation and maintenance of complex timelines and milestone tracking
- Applies project metrics and risk management principles to identify and mitigate potential schedule impacting items
- Drives the overall progress of assigned projects towards completion, using good judgment in determining when to escalate issues to management
- May perform as a project leader on small to mid-size projects
- Leverages understanding of product domain to support concept/new feature development efforts
- Ensures accurate project reporting and consistently provides clear and accurate project documentation
- Collaborates and participates in design reviews by providing input, feedback, and process improvement suggestions
- Provides reliable solutions to a variety of problems using sound problem solving techniques including support of root cause and corrective actions for given problems
- Demonstrates full use of accepted standards, procedures, tools and requirements as they relate to project management and product segment
- Demonstrates good customer communication skills, including but not limited to handling difficult conversations and negotiating with the customer for reasonable delivery targets
- Supports working hours as needed to best align with project development needs – resources will be treated as on-call for customer depending on customers working hours
- Develops and maintains a detailed project budget, product costs, staffing plan, and change request register
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in a technical discipline AND a minimum of 2 years relevant experience, OR an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
- Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Demonstrated proficiency using and applying engineering and project management tools
- Demonstrated understanding of production and operations issues as they relate to engineering project management
- Must be positive, detail oriented, organized, team oriented and a driven problem solver, multi-tasker, and self-starter with the ability to prioritize and lead projects in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment
- Ability to deal with confidential company matters
- Proficient computer skills in MS Office Suite (Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and PowerPoint)
Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran’s status, age or disability.