Leads large-scale optical submarine cable projects from proposal and route design through approvals, construction, testing, and handover, coordinating customers, subcontractors, and internal teams.
About this role
The role sits in NEC’s Marine Systems business, within the foundational technology group that develops the equipment forming submarine cable systems. It manages product strategy and development for repeaters, branching units, ROADM equipment and gain equalizers.
The manager plans product concepts; controls development quality, cost, delivery and risk; defines requirements and basic specifications; and provides technical support during order acquisition and project execution. The role also follows equipment manufacturing and supports operation and maintenance after delivery. As a line manager, it plans projects, tracks progress, allocates resources and leads a development team of about nine people.
Applicants need either at least three years managing electrical or communications equipment development with teams of about 50 people, including subcontractors, or hardware-development QCD management skills using quantitative scheduling and task tools such as Gantt charts and WBS.
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