Description
As the Program
Manager you will
utilize your experience and talents to provide leadership and direction to the
core teams and the staff of all support groups in setting and achieving program
objectives for timing, cost, manufacturability, quality, localization, and
customer satisfaction for the development and launch of new automotive lighting
products.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Performs in the lead role — the
focal point — for product development and launch for both the customer an
new lighting programs
- Leads Core Team activities,
including: planning new program launch; creating project schedules with
key milestones; defining each functional area’s deliverables;
communicating plans, schedules, and changes; and generating consensus from
the team
- Understands all customer
requirements for the project, communicates them to the team, and ensures
that the team meets or exceeds them.
- Ensures adherence to project
plan and schedule by conducting core team meetings, generating follow-up
documents, managing open issues, facilitating team member’s jobs, and
soliciting management support in overcoming problems
- Budgets, tracks, and, controls
all project costs in real time, ensuring that all chargeable costs are
assigned to the customer, and obtaining management approval for all cost
overruns
Required Skills
- Bachelor Degree in Engineering
or related technical discipline; Masters Degree in Engineering or MBA
is preferred
- 6 to 8 years of experience
in program management, design, product development, sales, quality,
engineering, and/or manufacturing within the automotive industry;
experience in exterior automotive lighting is preferred
Competencies
- Analytical and problem solving
- Organization and planning
- Ability to monitor several
program schedules and balance multiple priorities
- Computer skills using standard
business software (including MS Office programs)
- Written and verbal
communications and presentation skills
- Interpersonal skills —
to confidently interact with individuals at all levels of
authority
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