Senior Project Manager

at  PDF Solutions

Overview:
Join a dynamic, cross functional team working to redefine how our industries leverage data. With a clean slate and a bold vision, we are developing a cutting-edge analytics solution powered by AI/ML to change the game for our manufacturing customers. If you are tired of working on aging systems and crave a chance to make a real impact, this is your moment. We are seeking a technical project manager to lead and ensure that this project is completed meeting our customer and strategic requirements and timeline.

Responsibilities:

• Own and drive the technical schedule for this software project, taking inputs from technical team, distribute work with support of team leads.
• Work with team leads/architects to define both high level and detail schedule, defining phases to meet customer deliverables.
• Track task completion for team contributors, identifying areas in which the schedule and project needs attention and improvements.
• Work to resolve schedule bottlenecks with team and management and reduce critical path to accelerate project success.
• Track project collaterals using industry standard tools, JIRA, Confluence, Office365, GIT, Sharepoint. Ensure the team has access to needed materials. Actively contribute to the generation of such materials.
• Define project KPI to communicate project status and issues to our executive staff. Keep senior staff updated on project status, both in verbal and written forms.
• Track resources used (budget and/or resources) to complete project, utilizing industry standard project tracking tools (burn down charts, etc)
• Drive the team and continue to conform to CI/CD/devOps process, identifying areas of improvement.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field, with 5+ years of experience in driving technical projects to success.
• Experience working with manufacturing customers or users on industrial software use cases with high volume data requirements.
• Experience in successfully completing projects in cross functional, highly distributed work environments.
• Experience in risk assessment and reduction/mitigation of risks to ensure project delivery and success, using risk matrix or other tools.
• Knowledge of semiconductor manufacturing, electronics manufacturing/assembly is a plus.

Pay Range: CAD $110,000.00 - CAD $124,000.00 /Yr

• Own and drive the technical schedule for this software project, taking inputs from technical team, distribute work with support of team leads.
• Work with team leads/architects to define both high level and detail schedule, defining phases to meet customer deliverables.
• Track task completion for team contributors, identifying areas in which the schedule and project needs attention and improvements.
• Work to resolve schedule bottlenecks with team and management and reduce critical path to accelerate project success.
• Track project collaterals using industry standard tools, JIRA, Confluence, Office365, GIT, Sharepoint. Ensure the team has access to needed materials. Actively contribute to the generation of such materials.
• Define project KPI to communicate project status and issues to our executive staff. Keep senior staff updated on project status, both in verbal and written forms.
• Track resources used (budget and/or resources) to complete project, utilizing industry standard project tracking tools (burn down charts, etc)
• Drive the team and continue to conform to CI/CD/devOps process, identifying areas of improvement