• Seeking a Technical Program Manager on the Vehicle Assembly team to be part of a world-class team of engineers that are responsible for designing and building the vehicle assembly equipment at factories. As a Technical Program Manager, you are responsible for managing technical projects from “cradle to grave”. This includes driving the design and implementation of new manufacturing lines globally across various vehicle assembly shops for new or existing products. Program managers own driving the scope, schedule, implementation and cost of the project as well as additional functions such as vendor relations, stakeholder management and report outs.
• The key objective of the Vehicle Assembly team is developing new and innovative solutions in the factory and help achieve its ambitious manufacturing goals. All these manufacturing processes will be initially planned, assembled and tested at our facilities in NA or other factories/facilities around the world.

Responsibilities:

• ‘Concept to completion’ ownership of projects from project ideation, validation and production execution.
• Participate in and lead technical program meetings within the Manufacturing Engineering department and adjacent cross-functional teams.
• Set goals, track deliverables, identify risk and drive mitigation's across all stages of the project.
• Drive vendor partnership working closely with supply chain and purchasing team and ensure alignment on engineering requirements, scope, schedule and cost.
• Drive internal operations during the install, commission, testing and integration phases of the project.
• Manage roadmap of projects working within the framework of the overall program.
• Identify resource requirements and highlight gaps across various stages for all projects.
• Coordinate the preparation and consolidation of material for technical program meetings such as presentations, budget roll-ups and data visualizations.
• Maintain program timelines within the Manufacturing Engineering department, updating and disseminating information as it is received.
• Highlight major timeline risks based on the progress and status of manufacturing engineering tasks against program timelines.
• Organization and follow-up of open points/actions that come out of Executive reviews; ensure they’re conveyed and well communicated as actionable items.

Requirements:

• BA/BS, MS in Mechanical, Electrical, Manufacturing Engineering, or related field.
• 1-3 years working in a manufacturing industry, ideally with multiple delivered products in a medium to high volume industry.
• Experience in technical program or project management, ideally with multiple delivered projects of medium ($1-25M+) to large sized capital equipment systems.
• Excellent written and verbal skills, and ability to communicate across cultures and geographic regions in a clear, concise, and organized manner that is appropriate to the audience.
• Must be reliable, innovative, committed, and quality focused.
• Has an aptitude to rapidly learn new concepts and technologies.
• Can track, manage and prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously in high-pressure and fast-paced environments.
• Knowledge of JIRA and diverse continuous integration workflows is a plus.

Automotive assembly experience is required.

This is a short term position based on California.