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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Quite a lot of work.
Link up with business development on new feasible projects and draw up the charter to convince the management that a new project is worth the investment.
Loads of meetings with defined outputs to meet. The quality guys will be there to make sure you stick to agenda and get everyone to clear off the agenda of the day. You won't have a meeting that's talking about nothing, it is always about meeting some input. The meetings can take place during the wee hours of the morning in order to accommodate customers or colleagues from another time zone. Sometimes in teams sometimes in zoom whichever customer wants. Before the covid, I have to fly over to customer's sites when we have major buy off gates to clear.
Sometimes project team members run into disputes with customers, so I need to coordinate with stakeholders to negotiate until the disputes are resolved.
Some software or products end up with automotive, telecommunications or aerospace so I need to get the right quality team to support because each industry have their own requirements and it's a pain in the ass to have violations. Be at customer audits which sometimes take place in a remote location in the industrial area of rural US, Europe or China. Luckily we have a global team of subject matter experts to support, so I don't have to do everything myself.
Make sure the design is up to customers requirement because they sometimes change their mind every now and then jeopardizing my deadlines. Our design engineers also may have different ideas which I need to align them with customer expectations so I really need to have some technical knowledge. I will have to renegotiate new deadlines to avoid penalty. Just like one of the major auto customer suddenly decided to change a related part from another supplier and it affected our development. The original DFM didn't work anymore and we had to restart many activities setting us back 2 gates which is about 6-9 months of wasted efforts. So I had to negotiate with legal and product management on compensation from the customer that was pre-agreed in our master service agreement with customer and reset the new deadlines.
It's a very challenging job of communication and coordination with a global team and customer under pressing schedule. No one day is alike with another.
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You're are also another entitled delusional prick la.
Deadline cannot meet. Your role is just negotiate. Use mouth or email and tell customer can't meet. Havr to push back.
The person who have to meet the deadline are the people doing the actual job to rework.
Not you. Your job can be replaced by email templates. Or document template or even hell. Business process in the event when deadline cannot be met. Initiate next phase. Forms to fill...
So you think you're the big shot who managed to negotiate the deadline.
Sorry to burst your bubble. The deadline happened cause of the parts. There is nothing you can do to meet the current deadline. And customer understand that.
So you come in holding your entitled "title" that you renegotiate the deadline. As if it's your power to make the deadline come faster or later.
Let's say if there is no role like you. What happen? Product can't meet deadline. Push sck. Etc.
It's logic progression. And that's why alot of contract factor in things like this that involves fine or monetary punishment.
So sorry to burst your bubble. But it's not YOU who came up with all this. You're easily replaceable with literally anyone.
Can you replace a neurosurgeon with another one and still get the job done? No.
Pilot? No
Family doctor? Maybe. If those just give out mc.
Programmer? Maybe.
Bus driver. No.
Project engineer? Hell no.
Anyone can do your job. You can hire an actor and just act out written script of what to say..
Your job experience have no substance to it.
It's the team of people behind you that do the work.
Not you.
So. Yep. You're just as dispensable as any so called project engineer out there.