Company Description
Averna experience
Averna delivers industry-leading test solutions and services for communications and electronics device-makers worldwide, accelerating product development, quality and innovation:
- Be global@work: Serve international customers and collaborate with cross functional teams in California, across the US, with sister sites in Mexico, in Canada, in Europe and Asia
- Drive innovation@work: Participate in the development of market-leading high-tech products in the Automotive & Transportation, Electric Vehicles, Consumer Electronics, Industrials and Life Sciences.
- Develop your talent@work: Contribute to thrilling projects that will stretch your skills and talent to the maximum.
- Enjoy success@work: Be part of a fast-growing company with award-winning products and teams.
- Share your passion@work: Meet passionate people, enjoy our modern environment and dynamic atmosphere.
Job Description
We are actively seeking a talented Technical Project Manager (TPM) to be the lead subject matter expert for our customer’s manufacturing test development projects including test software, test hardware, and integration. The TPM will be supporting data center manufacturing test development projects. You will have the chance to network with multiple customer teams, suppliers, engineers, as well as a dream team of experts to maximize support.
Your contribution in this role:
- Manage data center test infrastructure projects and initiatives through planning, development, and deployment to support NPI manufacturing
- Manage test strategy, schedule, budget, risk management, procurement, logistics, and integration for manufacturing test solutions while maintaining alignment with NPI program schedules
- Coordinate the selection process of suppliers for test fixture components and joint design manufacturer (JDM) partner solutions
- Drive communication with internal stakeholders, vendors, and contract manufacturers for identifying problems, escalating issues, creating solutions, and implementing improvements
- Maintain and co-author technical documentation used for test plans, test processes, and initiatives, including creating presentations, dashboards, and requirements documents
- Evaluate technological strategies by understanding the stakeholder requirements and the test implications
- Support Averna sales by creating confidence with the customer for expanded business opportunities. This includes the creation of information for our department showing our capabilities as an engineering team including industry trends, standards and typical industry challenges for manufacturing test.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate:
- Degree:
- A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, industrial engineering, or a manufacturing related field
- Required:
- 5+ years experience with project management in high-visibility, strategic areas with strong written/verbal communication, and interpersonal skills
- 5+ years experience with manufacturing test industries
- Experience with different testing approaches (functional, performance, stress) in the manufacturing environment
- Experience with managing suppliers and partners in implementing test requirements
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and testing frameworks
- In-depth knowledge of project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall)
- Preferable:
- Manufacturing test design experience
- Experience working across cultures and time-zones
- Communication:
- Ability to work in a customer-facing role
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of developers, product owners, and subject matter experts
- Creates a method of change management including ownership of a documentation, communication plans, process training, etc.
- Strong ownership of responsibilities and skilled at escalating issues when necessary
- High fluency in English written & spoken
- Mobility:
- Might have to travel up to 5% of the time or when required by our customer
- Schedule:
- Flexible schedule and location – must be able to support the customer’s working hours located in Pacific time zone (GMT-7) and the contract manufacturer’s time zones in east Asia (GMT+8)
Additional Information
What's in it for YOU
- Flexible work hours and remote working model #LI-Remote
- Flex days paid between Christmas and New year's
- An additional day off for your birthday
- Full competitive benefits package
- Learning and growing through multiple cutting-edge projects and clients
Averna is committed to employment equity and to encouraging diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment, regardless of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
Top Skills
What We Do
“Our clients are changing how the world works, travels and communicates. And we’re right there with them – demonstrating the full power and true potential of Test.” – François Rainville, President & CEO
As a global Test & Quality Solution leader, Averna partners with product designers, developers and OEMs to help them achieve higher product quality, accelerate time to market and protect their brands. Founded in 1999, Averna offers specialized expertise and innovative test, vision inspection, precision assembly and automated solutions that deliver substantial technical, financial and market benefits for clients in the automotive and EV, life-science, battery, consumer electronics, industrial, telecom, transportation, and aerospace and defense industries. Averna has offices around the world, numerous industry certifications such as ISO and is ITAR registered.
Our everyday actions rest on 4 pillars representing Averna’s core values: teamwork and commitment, innovation and knowledge, performance and leadership and customer satisfaction. We offer:
• Our Services: We offer a full range of Test Engineering services and automated test equipment for every stage of the product lifecycle – from design and NPI through production and repair.
• Our Products: We put hard-earned expertise, technical innovation and extensive R&D into leading off-the-shelf test solutions that deliver substantial ROI and garner industry awards.
• Our Expertise: We help drive client success with our deep know-how in automation, RF, Design for Test, machine vision, battery test, broadband, NI TestStand/LabVIEW, FPGAs, fixturing, robotics, build-to-print, and more.
• Our Team: We are over 425 test engineers, system architects, hardware specialists, software developers, project managers and other professionals, including partners like NI, PI, Eclipse Automation, Keysight and JOT.
