Responsible for all aspects of the program to ensure success - identifying critical path, critical risks Establish project plans in collaboration with the technical project leader and the Director of engineering, check for logistic constraints, resources, lead-time, etc. Conduct project monitoring and co-ordination of activities between the different groups (e.g. design, application, product management, operations, assembly, ...) Drive project execution according to Engineering process, track and report projects according to quality standards and deviations to the plan Understand barriers, challenges, and trade-offs in all functional areas (chip design, test development, application, SW, firmware, Product and Test Engineering, quality, sourcing, customer engineering, marketing, etc.) in order to maintain a coherent plan for delivering to schedule, product cost and revenue Establish strong vendor/customer relationship - communicate status to customers regularly