Electronic Project Manager

The Electronic Project Manager is a true conductor. As the main interface with the customer, he is also responsible for the results of his team!

Are you looking for a company to assist you in your electronic design project?

ELSYS has design centers in Europe (France), Eastern Europe (Serbia) and a branch in the USA (California, in the Silicon Valley).

Contents:

Roles
Academic requirements
Skills
Salary
Job opportunities

Roles

Often under the responsibility of a technical director, the electronic project manager coordinates board and embedded systems design projects.

On a daily basis, he:

Responds to call for tenders
Participates in technical choices (architecture, components, reviews) as well as design phases
Guarantees Costs, Quality, Timeframe commitments of the project he deals with
Plans and tracks the progress of the electronic part
Coordinates and supports the technical team
Ensures relationships with customer and supplier technical teams
Reports to his technical director and business manager

In conclusion, it’s a complete job!

Become an Electronic Project Manager

To become an electronic project manager at ELSYS Design, it is essential to have studied hardware design, as part of a master’s degree or an engineering school. It is also important to have a solid professional experience of at least 5 years in the field of design.

Then, ideally, a first experience as a project manager allowed you to develop your management skills.

Skills

First, the electronic project manager has strong technical skills in electronics, for example by designing analog, digital or mixed boards.

He has also successfully participated in the entire design cycle of one or more electronic boards: specifications, detailed design, manufacturing, validation, qualification & integration, industrialization.

A project involves the participation of multiple stakeholders, internal or external (e.g. CAD, manufacturing and equipment, testing, qualification), so the project manager must be able to effectively monitor their work.

He masters development rules and procedures and knows how to write documentation.

Finally, at the managerial level, he knows how to plan, manage the commitment, coordinate a team and master the project monitoring and reporting tools.