Seeking a highly motivated individual to lead technical program management across one or more vehicle lines. This role serves as the primary liaison between the design team and cross-functional areas including vehicle program management, engineering, and manufacturing.
Key Responsibilities:
- Program Leadership:Drive technical program execution from development through end-of-life, ensuring alignment across all functional teams.
- System Integration:Ensure systems meet all functional and performance requirements while achieving targets for cost, weight, investment, timing, and quality.
- Issue Resolution & Support:Lead resolution of engineering and quality issues throughout all program phases. Provide hands-on support for bulletin responses, including concept development, packaging studies, cost/weight analysis, prototype procurement, supplier coordination, sourcing, tooling, validation, and launch.
- Launch Support:Act as a visible and active member of the launch team, supporting plant development and onsite activities.
- Development Planning:Define, communicate, and maintain the vehicle development plan to ensure feature availability and vehicle behavior consistency throughout the program lifecycle.
- Requirements Management:Release specifications to suppliers and manage requirement changes via Design Change Requests (DCRs), ensuring alignment with product planning, supplier feedback, and issue resolution.
- Warranty & Quality:Post-launch, lead warranty performance initiatives and manage warranty tables for all assigned commodities to meet targets.
- Value Optimization:Champion cost-saving initiatives through teardown events, supplier VO meetings, and idea processing via the ILO (0-4) framework to meet program value targets.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degreein Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Minimum 7 years of experiencein automotive engineering, product development, or program management.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage complex technical programs from concept through launch.
- Strong understanding of vehicle systems, manufacturing processes, and engineering development cycles.
- Experience with issue resolution, change management, and supplier coordination.
- Proficiency in tools such as CAD (e.g., CATIA, NX), PLM systems (e.g., Teamcenter), and Microsoft Office Suite.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- Willingness to travel and support onsite launch activities at manufacturing plants.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degreein Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experiencein OEM product development or technical program management.
- Experience with vehicle launch, warranty analysis, and post-launch quality improvement.
- Familiarity with Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), APQP, FMEA, and other quality tools.
- Demonstrated success in value optimization and cost reduction initiatives.
- Experience managing supplier relationships and leading sourcing/tooling activities.
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements and compliance standards in automotive engineering.
- Ability to interpret and manage technical specifications and design change requests.