Senior Project Manager in Engineering
ID 2013-2117 Job Location AU-NS-Sydney
Category Engineering -Research
More information about this job:
Overview:
Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future of how we communicate every day. At Dolby, science meets art, and high tech means more than just coding. As a member of the Dolby team, you’ll see and hear the results of your work everywhere, from movie theaters and living rooms, to smartphones, tablets and on the web.
We’ve helped revolutionize how people create, discover, deliver, and enjoy digital entertainment worldwide. Now we’re turning our attention to how we communicate every day, and across the world.
To do this, we need the absolute best talent, including insatiably curious engineers, amazing scientists and the best management talent for our Advanced Technology Group. We’re big enough to give you all the resources you need, and small enough so you can make a real difference and earn recognition for your work. We offer a collegial culture, challenging projects, and excellent compensation and benefits.
We’re seeking a talented Senior Engineering Project Manager to join our Communications Business Group team. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, this is a senior role within the Voice Engineering team and is essential to successfully bringing the next generation of Dolby’s communications and conferencing products and services to market on time and on budget to our global service provider customers.
You will provide sophisticated project management support for multiple, complex, cross-geography product software development efforts. You will join the Engineering Senior Staff of key Engineering Managers, and will be responsible for initiating, planning, tracking and reporting of our projects across the whole product lifecycle.
You will partner with the Engineering Managers who have primary responsibility for all development deliverables and works closely with the group Program Manager who facilitate and coordinates the cross-functional activities between engineering, marketing, sales, etc. You will produce regular program status updates to Engineering Management and works with Engineering Management to define and implement project management and development best practices and to train and mentor others in applying them.
Responsibilities:
Project Planning
Responsible for consolidated planning and optimization of engineering development based on product requirements for the entire product lifecycle. Create development plans and schedules, work and cost estimates, and risk mitigation plans.
Project Tracking
Manage tracking of projects against development plans and resolve issues as they arise. Provide feedback to engineering management and the development team on status and issues. At project’s end, assess team’s performance against baseline schedule, identify areas for improvement of quality and accuracy of schedules, and work with engineering management to implement process improvements. Establish meaningful metrics for measuring performance in meeting development goals.
Project Management Leadership
Provide guidance and expertise to engineers with project management duties and stay current with company and industry best practices. Attend approved seminars, conferences and short courses to increase knowledge and expertise. Keep aligned with evolving organizational and operational needs and recommend changes to the Project Manager role.
Process Improvement
Improve project management and development capabilities across the engineering organization.
Keep up to date on "best practices" of peers in the same or other groups and work to continuously improve both project management and development processes based on management approved approaches.
Information Architecture:
Play the lead role in organizing the information architecture for the global engineering organization. Facilitate the utilization of the enterprise wiki-based information system to span all Engineering teams in all global geographies. Rationalise the content as projects reach various phases of the product lifecycle.
Qualifications:
Education, Skills, Abilities, and Experience Required:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, with a minimum of 5 years professional experience in successful project management for hardware and software projects using both Waterfall and Agile development techniques.
- Experience in programs working across multiple geographies and/or internal departments.
- Proficient in using Microsoft Project or equivalent scheduling tool, Excel and collaboration tools.
- Knowledge of development best practices, such as CMMi, ISO 9001, and Six Sigma.
- Excellent organizational skills. Able to manage multiple projects independently.
- Information Architecture experience within a complex engineering environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to communicate and present project status and issues clearly and effectively.
- Project Management Institute PMP certification is desirable.
- Experience as a development engineer in software development life cycle is desirable. Understands software development activities such as coding, compiling, testing and debugging.
- Occasional travel required to global engineering offices.
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ID 2013-2117 Job Location AU-NS-Sydney
Category Engineering -Research
More information about this job:
Overview:
Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future of how we communicate every day. At Dolby, science meets art, and high tech means more than just coding. As a member of the Dolby team, you’ll see and hear the results of your work everywhere, from movie theaters and living rooms, to smartphones, tablets and on the web.
We’ve helped revolutionize how people create, discover, deliver, and enjoy digital entertainment worldwide. Now we’re turning our attention to how we communicate every day, and across the world.
To do this, we need the absolute best talent, including insatiably curious engineers, amazing scientists and the best management talent for our Advanced Technology Group. We’re big enough to give you all the resources you need, and small enough so you can make a real difference and earn recognition for your work. We offer a collegial culture, challenging projects, and excellent compensation and benefits.
We’re seeking a talented Senior Engineering Project Manager to join our Communications Business Group team. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, this is a senior role within the Voice Engineering team and is essential to successfully bringing the next generation of Dolby’s communications and conferencing products and services to market on time and on budget to our global service provider customers.
You will provide sophisticated project management support for multiple, complex, cross-geography product software development efforts. You will join the Engineering Senior Staff of key Engineering Managers, and will be responsible for initiating, planning, tracking and reporting of our projects across the whole product lifecycle.
You will partner with the Engineering Managers who have primary responsibility for all development deliverables and works closely with the group Program Manager who facilitate and coordinates the cross-functional activities between engineering, marketing, sales, etc. You will produce regular program status updates to Engineering Management and works with Engineering Management to define and implement project management and development best practices and to train and mentor others in applying them.
Responsibilities:
Project Planning
Responsible for consolidated planning and optimization of engineering development based on product requirements for the entire product lifecycle. Create development plans and schedules, work and cost estimates, and risk mitigation plans.
Project Tracking
Manage tracking of projects against development plans and resolve issues as they arise. Provide feedback to engineering management and the development team on status and issues. At project’s end, assess team’s performance against baseline schedule, identify areas for improvement of quality and accuracy of schedules, and work with engineering management to implement process improvements. Establish meaningful metrics for measuring performance in meeting development goals.
Project Management Leadership
Provide guidance and expertise to engineers with project management duties and stay current with company and industry best practices. Attend approved seminars, conferences and short courses to increase knowledge and expertise. Keep aligned with evolving organizational and operational needs and recommend changes to the Project Manager role.
Process Improvement
Improve project management and development capabilities across the engineering organization.
Keep up to date on "best practices" of peers in the same or other groups and work to continuously improve both project management and development processes based on management approved approaches.
Information Architecture:
Play the lead role in organizing the information architecture for the global engineering organization. Facilitate the utilization of the enterprise wiki-based information system to span all Engineering teams in all global geographies. Rationalise the content as projects reach various phases of the product lifecycle.
Qualifications:
Education, Skills, Abilities, and Experience Required:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, with a minimum of 5 years professional experience in successful project management for hardware and software projects using both Waterfall and Agile development techniques.
- Experience in programs working across multiple geographies and/or internal departments.
- Proficient in using Microsoft Project or equivalent scheduling tool, Excel and collaboration tools.
- Knowledge of development best practices, such as CMMi, ISO 9001, and Six Sigma.
- Excellent organizational skills. Able to manage multiple projects independently.
- Information Architecture experience within a complex engineering environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to communicate and present project status and issues clearly and effectively.
- Project Management Institute PMP certification is desirable.
- Experience as a development engineer in software development life cycle is desirable. Understands software development activities such as coding, compiling, testing and debugging.
- Occasional travel required to global engineering offices.
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