Description
Project Management Tasks
- Plan projects, lead and manage the project team to realize the project objectives;
- Assign the work packages to the project team members (delegation and direction);
- Participate in the selection of outsourcing and development partners;
- Ensure the appropriate project reporting and information flow
- Plan, coordinate and implement the entire project, perform project meetings and risk management
- Provide access to the knowledge gained in the project
- Perform presentations at customer and internal
- Ensure compliance to Product life cycle: responsible for planning, execution and documentation of Gate Release according to project plan and conduct project meetings, gate release meetings and review meetings to report to management, together with the functional managers, according to PLC (incl. Reviews)
- Coordinate feasibility, prototype, and preproduction phases of: design, tool builds, and part builds
- Travel to manufacturing, engineering, production and customer locations as required
Project communication and representation - Responsible to present the project status to Steering Committees, the project team and to the customer regularly
- Responsible to assure a continuous and regular information exchange by regular meetings (pact workshops, project kick offs, project team meetings) and customer project meetings
- Informs functional departments about the needed contribution
- Represent the project in the organization and in front of the customer
Reporting and documentation - Reports frequently to superior, Program Management , Steering Committees and Customer Project Meetings about the actual status, future tasks of the project
- Responsible to update calculations, Global PS and ePSR (electronic Project Status Report), with information and project plan
- Responsible for the documentation of Gate Releases
Project planning - Responsible to define and perform a project plan, including responsibilities and deadlines based on the customer milestone
- Plan, master project plan, keep it always updated, control the milestones and deadlines
- Responsible for planning, execution and documentation of Gate Release according the Product life cycle
- In case of deviation or delays, responsible to define and establish counteractions, if needed to start the escalation procedure and implement a corrective action plan; if the escalation procedure itself or the result lead to a conflict with the pre-agreed project goals additional information to the PM Coach shall take place
Project budget - Responsible for achieve the project objectives within approved financial project budget.
- Assures controlling of the financial project status and acts as interface to project external controlling functions
Quality - Responsible for keeping the procedures of Automotive Industry Standards, Continental quality manual and process descriptions (Project Management Process, Change Management Process)
- Follow project management rules, in accordance with Product Life Cycle (PLC) and PM handbook
- Qualifications
- Project management skills;
- Change Management knowledge;
- Automotive Quality standards (APQP, FMEA, PAPP, Run@Rate);
- Computer aided PM IT tools incl. MS-Office; ;
- Advanced English language skills;
- Leadership skills;
- University degree in engineering;
- 3+ years experience in automotive or similar business;
- Experienced in Project Management in automotive or similar business;
- Experienced in leading teams;
- Experienced team player in international teams.
