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

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