Engineering Project Manager, Apple Watch, Band Design

Summary
As an Engineering Project Manager (EPM) supporting the Softgoods Program Management organization, you will be responsible for the technical management and support of engineering development for watch bands. The successful candidate will use a solid engineering background to drive day-to-day activities with the team to meet the top level program objectives. The Softgoods EPM focuses on product engineering design, managing development planning and validation cycles.



Description
Enable efficient development by creating and maintaining a streamlined process, capturing parallel designs and clear paths to closure with owners for each action item
Collaborate and facilitate communication across engineering, operations, industrial design, and our vendor partners to meet aggressive cost, schedule, and quality goals
Understand technical issues & complex design trade-offs. Drive to closure by bringing together key stakeholders for decision-making to meet overall project objectives
Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies and facilitate conflict resolution within and between teams, focus on top level objectives and develop a better course of action
Provide timely issue resolution and critical path management as top priorities shift
Create and maintain detailed project schedules for key enclosure and mechanical components, respond quickly to changes
Understand system-level part interactions, manage a plan to provide key combinations into reliability testing to validate system performance
Coordinate cosmetic and functional partial unit builds for key reviews and early testing

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