Launch Project Engineer at TradeDepot

Job Description

• We are looking for a Launch Project Engineer to join the launch team and drive the scheduling, planning, budgeting, forecasting, resourcing, and managing technical activities to ensure project accuracy and quality.
• The Launch Project Engineer is a key contributor to helping TradeDepot expand into new branches/ locations across Nigeria and the rest of Africa. In order to be successful, the candidate will be entrepreneurial, discontent with the status-quo and obsessed with improving anything they touch.
• They should also be comfortable taking on many tasks that require various skills and appropriately prioritizing those tasks' completion.

Responsibilities

• Preparing, scheduling, coordinating, and monitoring assigned engineering projects.
• Formulating project parameters and assigning responsibilities to the most capable employees and monitoring the project team.
• Reviewing the engineering tasks and initiating the necessary corrective actions.
• Developing specifications for the launch project's needed equipment.
• Creating frameworks to measure the project's metrics and data collection.
• Establishing field test methods and methods for monitoring the quality of those tests.
• Ensuring the project's compliance with the applicable codes, practices, policies, performance standards, and specifications.
• Travel to and rollout new locations. You'll be the main point of contact for new locations, you'll be the owner behind planning and opening a new location.
• Help build and execute upon the launch playbook. You'll ensure that you not only follow the playbook to launch successful locations, but you'll also continue to improve through lessons learned.
• Own launch KPI's. You'll closely monitor a variety of launch KPIs, some of which include launch date timelines, hiring, and reporting.
• Assist in hiring and training location management teams. New employees will look to you for your expertise and knowledge to ensure they are set up for success.
• Work cross-functionally with different departments. You'll leverage other departments expertise to drive standardization and an exceptional customer experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a Project Engineer in a Contracting capacity.
• A Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Mechanical or Civil Engineering or a related field.
• Excellent project management and supervision skills.
• Excellent organizational, time management, leadership, and decision-making skills.
• Data-driven decision mentality and sound business judgment through strong analytical thinking
• Ability to work in high autonomy and ambiguous environments. You deliver high-octane results
• Availability to travel 70% of the time to Distribution Centers. You'll be opening a new market every few months.
• Entrepreneurial DNA and the fear tolerance of a honey badger. You are constantly learning and identifying ways to innovate.
• Creative solutions driven mindset, with an urgent execution attitude
• You have grit. Willingness to roll up your sleeves and do whatever is needed to get the job done.
• Excellent communication skills. You can communicate clearly and concise in both written and verbal.
• Stellar networking skills and the ability to make smart partnerships happen
• You are a team player. You are constantly learning and helping team members to succeed.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize, self-start, contribute under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Exude passion for all aspects of our mission: environmental stewardship, safety, sustainability and of course, time is given back in life for what truly matters.