Littelfuse is one of America’s Best Mid-Sized Companies (Forbes) and has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Illinois (Best Companies Group) for 11 consecutive years. With its global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Littelfuse is a leading, global manufacturer of electronic components serving more than 100,000 end customers across industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets. We have more than 17,000 employees with operations in 15 countries. From semiconductors to sensors… switches to fuses and more… we produce billions of electronic components that help our customers empower a sustainable, connected, and safer world. In 2021, Littelfuse had net sales of $2.1 billion.
Project Leader
The primary responsibilities of this position will be to initiate, plan, execute, monitor & control, and close projects throughout the project life cycle time for new product development.
The project leader must be a proactive leader in team building and leading with excellent project management, communication, and presentation skills. The project leader is responsible for updating the schedule and deliverables, and completion of LF 5 Phase to achieve project goals.
About the job:
- Develop, execute, monitor & control and update the project plan, deliverables, milestones, schedule, work breakdown structure and action item register to achieve project goals, hence to fulfill customers’ requirements and expectations Proactively staffing the cross-functional Littelfuse core team, coordinate and manage the project schedule and deliverables and ensure to meet all the specified milestones and drive to lanch project on-time.
- Support DV and PV builds and timely delivery of prototype parts through team meetings to ensure that projects are implemented and production-ready. Review and submit all test plans for products and obtain customer approval. Follow-up for timely completion of action item issues.
- Drive for early involvement of operations for new product development – Littelfuse 5-phase APQP.
- Periodically communicate and update the project progress with project team members to ensure the project schedule and milestones are on track.
About you:
- Bachelor's or university degree in Engineering
- Minimum 3 years project management experience
- Strong communication and organizational skills – ability to work remotely and across cultures/time zones.
- Ability to work with minimal direction.
- Ability to interface with all levels of Littelfuse, its suppliers, and customer organizations.
- Ability to manage conflict and problem resolution.
Littelfuse strives to empower associate growth and development in a culture of ongoing collaboration and respect for diverse global perspectives and expertise.
Our Core Values – Respect, Customer Focus, Agility, Collaboration – support us in our mission to improve the safety, reliability, and performance of our customers’ products that use electrical energy.
We are an equal-opportunity employer that takes pride in giving every associate the means and courage to make a difference – everywhere, every day.
We offer a variety of benefits, competitive salary, bonuses, flexible working hours, remote working as well as development opportunities like internal Lean Six Sigma Certification.
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What We Do
Littelfuse is an industrial technology manufacturing company empowering a sustainable, connected, and safer world. Across more than 15 countries, and with 17,000 global associates, we partner with customers to design and deliver innovative, reliable solutions. Serving over 100,000 end customers, our products are found in a variety of industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets—everywhere, every day. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States, Littelfuse was founded in 1927.
View our broad and deep product portfolio:
https://www.littelfuse.com/
Littelfuse has had a long-standing commitment to ensuring a diversified workforce through equal employment opportunities. Maintaining a diversified workforce is critical to the success of our organization.
Each associate receives equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, creed, sex (with or without sexual conduct), marital status, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, order of protection status, military status, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, genetic information, unfavorable discharge from military service, and any other protected class under federal, state or local law
