Project Tollgate Manager

The Project Tollgate Manager will lead critical design review preparation and project management for active and potential R&D projects. They will also parter between Business units, Pantheon Corporate and the R&D Function. The Project Tollgate Manager is a key contributor in the evaluation of potential projects, the creation detailed budget and project plans, and the coordination with business contacts to develop project execution plans.

Key Responsibilities

Tollgate Management

• Lead creation of project GANTT charts and detailed project plans to align target completion dates and parallel work streams to monitor progress and measure on time execution
• Establish operating rhythms to regularly interface with project team(s) on status, roadblocks and next steps
• Manage and update project trackers and supporting files in preparation for project tollgate reviews
• Work with project teams to identify and mitigate major project disruptions to propose resolution plans to re-align project completion targets
• Execute where needed on project streams (engineering, process mapping, technical reviews) to provide hands-on support
• Prepare and present project tollgate reviews for senior leadership

Budget Management

• Work with Chief Engineer on preparation of TG proposals for funding
• Collaborate with project teams, finance and R&D manager to establish baseline project budgets and implement cost segmentation for tracking
• Regularly update budget trackers to monitor actual versus planned spend and any unexpected overruns to assess overall financial performance
• Interface with finance to determine cash funding modes (alignment of cost and cash pools) across the enterprise to establish funding pool.

Project Evaluation

• Manage identified innovation (internal/external) pipeline to define and prioritize projects
• Support Tollgate 0 assessment of opportunities using available resources (academia articles, market research, etc.) to assist in evaluation of potential impact
• Support Tollgate 2 detailed project cost and benefit analysis working with defined project team, business stakeholder and R&D group

Additional responsibilities as required

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ Years Experience in Engineering, Manufacturing or Project Management
• Bachelor of Science in Engineering field: Material Science, Mechanical, Electrical, Applied
• Experience working on larger project initiatives with high level communication skills
• Familiarity with profit and loss statements
• Familiarity with stage gate development processes
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
• Capability to travel up to ~25% of the time

Key Candidate Attributes

• Strong relationship-building, and stakeholder management skills
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities, drive process improvements, and deliver results across multiple projects and stakeholders.
• Self-motivated with strong attention to detail
• Strong written and verbal communication skills