Project Leader

at  ASSA ABLOY

PROJECT LEADER

Location: Rychnov nad Kneznou
Reporting to: EEM CTO
Purpose of the Job: The job holder will be responsible for project management of industrialization of electromechanical locking products.

APPLICANT QUALIFICATIONS:

• Electronics engineering and/or mechanical engineering background, with experience in project management.
• Experience working with a phase gate development process, agile and scrum methodologies.
• Solid technical understanding of RFID, UHF, BLE, battery powered devices, access control.
• Solid understanding of computer networks, IT technologies, software & firmware development.
• Experience of working in a multicultural team and in an international environment is essential.
• A collaborative mindset with an open attitude to learn new things.
• An open mind and transparency in results and obstacles.
• A “can do” attitude with the ambition to solve the upcoming obstacles together with a strategic attitude for securing the solutions into the regular processes.
• Prepared to travel on occasion within EMEIA.
• The ability to work in another major European language as well as good English language skills.

• Leading the industrialization part of the NPI/CPI projects from manufacturing perspective.
• Working closely with EMEIA DAS project teams for new product developments.
• Drive execution of the projects in Operations in accordance with the plan of the entire product innovation projects.
• Main contact person for EMEIA DAS project managers, as a project role Operations/Manufacturing.
• Consolidating and streamlining the cooperation between manufacturing site and business product owner.
• Leading internal EEM projects related to electromechanical business (e.g. updates of production and testing equipment, process improvement projects,…).
• Coordinating the local manufacturing team and reporting the progress to EMEIA DAS.
• Reporting the project status, schedules, achievements to EEM management.
• Manage and control local project finances and resources.