TPD Project Manager II

R&D Project Manager

The R&D Project Managers is a key role of the Technology and Product Development (TPD) Team that delivers forward leaning technology, products, and solutions to CAE through research and development initiatives. The ideal R&D Project Manager possesses a strong working knowledge of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) as well as traditional project management skills. An R&D Project Manager owns cost and schedule performance for a portfolio of projects and delivers monthly reports on each project to TPD leadership. This role works directly with project, technical and product leadership within the engineering team to achieve project outcomes on schedule, in scope and on budget. Additionally, this role is the primary interface to support groups outside of engineering like finance, procurement, and subcontracts for each project. The TPD team is executing a complex R&D strategy to serve business needs of CAE and across the globe. R&D project managers ensure we meet that challenge on time and on budget.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Ability to manage multiple projects with complex funding profiles
• Perform all budget and forecasting related activities for projects across the portfolio
• Strategize with leaders to develop best practices for the project management process
• Execute the project review cycle process
• Align project resources to project budget and schedule
• Ensure skills of engineering resources aligned to execution needs
• Work with TPD Product Management team to ensure product need and roadmap are aligned to budget
• Identify and mitigate risks to schedule and costs
• Monitor and control the billing milestones schedule to include intercompany purchase orders
• Develop and maintain deliverables, KPM's & OKR's per TPD execution cadence
• Drive all purchasing with the D&S procurement team for the assigned projects
• Participate in the Scaled Agile Process by attending project team events
• Responsible for Control Account Management (CAM) duties for assigned projects in the context of SAFe execution
• Interface with business functions outside of engineering for reporting and process compliance
• Identify opportunities to streamline and improve processes in TPD

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Security Responsibilities :

Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role. This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

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Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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Position Type : Regular

CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.