Technical Project Manager - Electric Power Steering
The Technical Project Manager acts as the technical counterpart to the Project Manager and is responsible to plan, coordinate and execute global multi-disciplinary engineering activities to achieve project success. Responsible for making sure the technical team understands and fulfills the customer and internal requirements on specification, on schedule and on budget.
- Ensure engineering development, validation, and release throughout product lifecycle according to schedule, guidelines, requirements and specifications
- Lead international cross-functional technical teams including mechanical, hardware, software, testing, system architect, functional safety, cybersecurity, system application and resident engineers.
- Completion of final engineering release for OEM or saleable use
- Creation and maintenance of technical project schedule
- Support problem solving and root cause analysis activities
- Responsible for technical risk management
- Budget and resource management for technical development and testing efforts
- Develop and maintain a positive OEM relationship as key technical point of contact and engineering lead
Education:
Bachelor of Science in Mechatronics Engineering or related technical field (Mechanical, Electronics, Computer Systems, Industrial, Automotive) or equivalent.
Required skills:
- Project management: stakeholder management, schedule management, risk management, resource management, quality management
- Excellent communication, assertiveness, ability to negotiate and convey complex abstract ideas to global teams and OEMs
- Organizational awareness and development of relationships
- Leadership
- Task prioritization
- Decision making
- Goal-oriented mindset
- Capable to work independently in an organized and structured fashion
- Problem solving abilities
Required experience:
- Product development
- Safety-critical products
Languages:
- English: proficient level (both written and verbal)
Tools:
- Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project)
Travel required approximately 5% of the time within Mexico or USA