POSITION SUMMARY
The Planning & Project Management Engineer drives dynamic project timelines, rigorous cost control, and execution strategy. This role is responsible for the end-to-end scheduling and monitoring of high-precision Jigs & Fixtures projects for the electronic gadget industry. The engineer must demonstrate exceptional agility, maintaining a round-the-clock customer connect to meet aggressive production schedules and successfully navigate tough customer demands from kickoff to final deployment.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Schedule Acceleration & Agile Baseline Control
- Aggressive Project Scheduling: Develop and accelerate high-speed project baselines and critical path networks to meet compressed, aggressive customer timelines without compromising toolroom standards.
- Agile Change Execution:
Exhibit high agility in adjusting schedules dynamically to mirror real-time design modifications and rapidly changing engineering constraints on the floor.
- Milestone Enforcement: Track tight design freezes, short-cycle material procurement, and automated logic testing to ensure zero timeline slippage.
2. Demand Management & Customer Connect
- Tough Demand Navigation: Act as the primary buffer and interface to absorb, evaluate, and structurally deploy tough, fluctuating, and strict customer engineering demands.
- Round-the-Clock Connect: Maintain proactive, continuous, and responsive contact loops with premium global electronics clients to report daily project updates and rapidly transparent delivery roadblocks.
- Scope Control: Formally document the cost and timeline impact of customer-driven scope changes, preserving target project profitability.
3. Commercial Controls & Resource Sync
- Hour Variance Management: Track actual toolroom, assembly, and programming hou