High Level Mission Statement

It is the mission of the Product Development Engineering team to enable new production opportunities. 

High Level Statement of the Role

The Project Engineer will support the Product Development Team with project planning, monitoring, controlling and reporting.

High Level Roles & Responsibilities

• Provide vendor & project management support for product development engineering team.
• Coordinate with engineers in project planning, controlling, monitoring, reporting and escalation.  (Engineers are responsible for technical details and assist customers in the development of cost-effective test strategies and timely completion of test specifications and statements of work.)
• Ensure customer contract and quality requirements are achieved within budget, on-time and to the satisfaction of external and internal customers.
• Lead multiple activities and/or projects at any given time and coordinate with multiple departments, manufacturing plants and vendors.
• Coordinate with program management to plan & monitor activities related to NPI prototyping, pilot builds, manufacturing process readiness, qualification requirements and schedules.
• Identify and resolve, with the team, any potential deviations from the approved project plan.

Skills to Perform This Role

Interpersonal Skills

·          Interaction with all levels of the organization

·          Understands how to manage customer relationship

·          Patience

·          Good sense of humor

·          Calm under pressure

·          Able to receive constructive feedback

Technical Skills

·          Experience utilizing project management tools such as project plans (Gantt/Pert charts), work breakdown structures, earned value analysis, budgeting and costing, etc.

·          Problem assessment/problem-solving skills

·          Understanding of electronic and electro-mechanical design and development.

·          PCB manufacturing and testing preferred, but not required.

Communication Skills

·          Effective presentation skills

·          Excellent communications (verbal and written)

Leadership Skills

·          Embrace Group Vision and Guiding Principles.

·          Demonstrate principled character and leadership qualities.

Experience Preferred

·          BSEE & test engineering

·          PMI PMP, IPC CEPM or comparable certification

·          10 - 15 years of technical or manufacturing experience, preferably in automotive electronics,

·          5 - 7 years in a project leadership role.

Minimum

·          BS Technical or EET

·          5 - 10 years of technical or manufacturing experience

·          3 - 5 years in a project leadership role