Senior Engineering Project Manager

Come create the technology that helps the world act together

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people's lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world. We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work.

The team you'll be part of

The pandemic has highlighted how important telecoms networks are to society. Nokia's Network Infrastructure group is at the heart of a revolution to bring more and faster network capacity to people worldwide through our ambition, innovation, and technical expertise.

What you will learn and contribute to

1. Develop & maintain chassis & board build (including Mechanicals, Optics) & distribution plans. This begins with forecasting based on history & work with program leads. The plan needs to be updated by PM with prototype requirements collected & negotiated with key principles and these updates need to be communicated to key principles.
2. Work with purchasing team to ensure these requirements are clear & long lead items are ordered well in advance. Work with board Leads to ensure they are keeping up with build plans via pcb/fab and pcba/assembly orders. Communicate plan changes to key parties as needed.
3. Drive weekly update calls with various technical teams & document action items & meeting notes with follow up as needed.
4. Develop & maintain prototype budget for the Hardware team. This entails collecting general idea of the next year's development plans and then translating to estimates of costing & quantities based on history & discussions with Program Leads. The Program Managers update & report the budget at least quarterly with cost/quantity/schedule adjustments based on build plans as well as to incorporate additional or canceled development programs.
5. Program Manager will interface with NPI buyers for hardware, mechanical and optical critical early part requirements.
6. Remote support of multiple teams located throughout US and Canada is a requirement.
7. Consolidate and generate management reports for weekly status from engineering teams for Program Leads and management team.

Your skills and experience

Degrees: Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering preferred. Mechanical or other type of degree with suitable background acceptable.

Types of skills - someone who is comfortable working in the background & is good at figuring out what is the most important/highest priority work w/o much supervision. Excellent communication skill is required. General familiarity with system level development is extremely useful. Understanding of Diags, FW, hardware development processes, BIOS/Boot ROM interactions is useful.

On occasion requires complex project plan development (at the beginning of a new system e.g.) in MS Project. Many of the tools used are built in MS Excel, One Note, Microsoft Teams and utilities and so proficiency in this tool is required.

What we offer

Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer

Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

• One of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
• Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
• Workplace Pride Global Benchmark
• LGBT+ equality & best place to work by HRC Foundation

At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people.

Nokia's employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.

Join us and be part of a company where you will feel included and empowered to succeed.