Project Leader

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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