Project Manager

Engineering Cape Town, South Africa

Position at Triz Engineering Services America, LLC

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, Mechatronic or Electronic Engineering
Minimum 7-10 Years of experience in Automotive Engineering Development
3 – 5 Years of experience in Project Management experience
Good understanding of automotive industry stakeholders, practices, and processes.

Responsibilities

Execute development projects from start to production flawlessly

Develop project plans, including detailed statements of work, cost estimations and work breakdown structures.
Interact, support and drive execution between all project stakeholders
Report project performance to senior management and or program manager

Execute development activities flawlessly

Ensure adherence to the relevant process
Asses overall project risk daily and provide decisions and directions to mitigate the risk.
Ensure accuracy of regular project management reports (resource loading, dates, task status, budgets, risks)
Schedule and host internal and external design reviews
Manage projects across company departments
Develop and improve Project management processes
Identify, understand, and facilitate the resolution of technical, commercial or other program-related issues.

Execute development programs within budget

Develop and total cost for development project
Monitor cost vs quality and perforce and take corrective action where necessary.
Report on cost to senior management

Develop customizable products that are mass-produced

Ensure project development supports manufacturing to scale
Manage project and task timelines to ensure that agreed milestones are reached and to communicate and plan for non-compliance on time.

Support and develop engineering talent development

Management of various electrical design resources throughout a project
Interface with the Lead Engineers and Managers to help establish and prioritize the utilization of team resources.
Delegate work to assigned resources.
Direct and guide team members on related issues.
Collaborate with internal and cross-functional managers and teams to support identifying critical resource needs.
Provide input to the Company performance review process.
Provide input to the Company performance review process.
Support hiring and onboarding processes
Support in identifying critical resource needs

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