Project Controls Engineer- Rolling Stock

Company: Siemens Mobility
Location: Sacramento
Posted on: May 23, 2023

Job Description:

Position Overview
In this position, you will contribute as part of the Operations and Project Management teams responsible for managing complex Plant-wide Manufacturing schedules (with Engineering and Procurement elements) for advanced Rail Vehicle Projects. You will be responsible for driving the specific manufacturing departments and/or projects to meet the Master Schedule by developing, tracking, and maintaining complex master schedules for projects multiple projects. You would also be involved in many planning aspects related to, capacity planning, process improvements, lean manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain management. You will be involved in high level strategic planning, forecasting and bid preparation. You will work with Management at various levels and prepare and present schedule and workload data on a daily, weekly and monthly basis to shop floor management to executive management.

Responsibilities
--- Manage development, tracking, and reporting of complex plant schedules using Primavera P6, based on inputs from functional department managers.

--- Be able to have micro and macro level understanding of issues related to plant performance, forecasts, bottlenecks, issues and trends.

--- Be involved in the development of plant wide master schedules (key team member).

--- Be able to simplify problems to determine impacts with impact analysis.

--- Pro-actively drive operations managers and the broader team for mitigations and recoveries.

--- Monitor workload capacity and backlog. Identify optimized resources allocation opportunities to ensure that customer expectations, deadlines and internal financial goals are met.

--- Development of reports for cross-functional departments to monitor schedule performance at various levels with respect to baselines and factory manpower loading.

--- Coordinate and regulate various meetings such as project progress reviews with various levels of management.

--- Become a subject matter expert by driving the team to overcome roadblocks or delays through using various methods such as industry related knowledge, innovating short cuts or alternative ways, improvising plans to meet targets and the like.

Required Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience

• Required education: Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field.
• Required experience: 2+ years of experience in Project Planning/Controls, Scheduling, Supply Chain Management, Project Management, Industrial, Mechanical or Civil Engineering.
• Excellent communication skills required.
• Demonstrate strong excel and computer skills required.
• Demonstrate strong collaboration skills
• A strategic and analytical mindset
• Required travel: 5% or less.
• Remote and In-office mix flexibility Preferred Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience
  
  
  • Preferred education: Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or similar) with an interest in Project Management/Project Controls.
  • Experience with scheduling software such as Primavera/MS Project in a manufacturing or construction environment preferred but not required.
  • Understanding of manufacturing/operations processes.
  • Knowledge/Understanding of ERP/MRP (SAP)
  • Knowledge of lean manufacturing and continuous improvement tools and methodologies
  • Understanding of the Rail / Rolling Stock Industry is a plus.
  • Experience in fostering strong partnerships with key stakeholders.
  • Experience with Tableau softwareThis job is based in Sacramento, CA. Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: https://www.benefitsquickstart.com/siemens/index.html . The base salary range for this position in Sacramento, CA is $61,575 - $102,625.
    
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    Organization: Siemens Mobility
    Company: Siemens Mobility, Inc
    Experience Level: Mid-level Professional
    Full / Part time: Full-time
    
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