Job Description

Job description:



* Understanding of Project Management Professional activities, adherence to the Project Management Office Development Process

* Experience with FCA a plus

* Production/Manufacturing experience

* Create and manage project schedule adhering to specific project phases, milestones and gates

* Prior to award of business, support commercial team by working closely with the customer to review and refine project and product requirements.

* Provide resource and cost information in support of project business case development.

* Support review of quote packages to ensure technical completeness and accuracy.

* Work with a global team of internal/external engineering and product resources to develop effective solutions.

* Understand the cost inputs, price calculations and financial sensitivity with the cost model.

* Monitor project team's planned execution to ensure product quality and timely project execution within budget.

* Escalate customer issues, quality, cost or timing problems and propose solutions to resolve them.

* Report project status to the leadership staff on a routine basis.

* Lead escalation communication with customer, internal and external team members.

* Chair weekly team meetings to ensure issues are identified and resolved quickly.

* Comply with and contribute to improvement of departmental best practices and standards.

* Identify program risks and implement risk mitigation plans.

* Initiate the review of lessons learned/best practices of other programs and document new ones from each project.Experience

* developing automotive electronics system (preferred in telematics)



Experience



working with electronics manufacturing plants



working with automotive OEMs and Tier One suppliers



working in global crossfunctional teams



working with suppliers