Engineering Project Manager - Electrical & Electronics

American Axle & Manufacturing•Detroit, MI

31d•Onsite

About The Position

AAM is searching for an Engineering Project Manager to join our team. This position will be based out of our Advanced Technical Development Center location in Detroit, MI.. As an Engineering Project Manager, you will lead a diverse team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers to deliver e-drive units for state-of-the-art automotive products in the Automotive Electronics, Driveline domain. The position involves interaction with hardware and software development engineers, product requirements managers, prototype management, customers and project leaders. The ideal candidate will possess technical knowledge of driveline systems, hold a PMP certification or Scrum certification, and have knowledge/usage of IBM RTC, DOORS, PLM Team center.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree in Engineering - Technical disciplines: Electrical & Electronics, Automotive, Systems, Mechatronics, Computer science, Software or similar.
7+ years of experience developing and/or managing programs for high volume mass production projects.
Demonstrated understanding of new product development cycles and criticality of time to develop and launch.
Experienced in project management, risk management, supplier management.

Responsibilities

Work across multiple domains (software, hardware, systems, system test, manufacturing, and project management) to deliver an Electronic Drive Unit with Software & Calibrations.
Create ECS/Software release plan overviewing systems & customer milestones.
Breakdown work scope for implementation in releases, assign to leads and engineers (20+ engineers)
Manage work division for development teams (internal as well as third party).
Lead daily meetings & closely follow-up implementation
Lead Change Control Board with stakeholders in determining work scope
Assign, follow-up and close issues for the program.
Create summaries routinely to report progress to customer, review and negotiate implementation scope.
Monitor overall project progress including extended remote development teams, third party deliverables, and track open items.
Develop, maintain and execute the product development plan, Create accuracy and clarity in Project planning, measure and report critical metrics on execution
Simplify complexity, create summaries with metrics for regular reporting of project status to management team.
Support Projects from Program initiation to Production, meeting all internal and customer milestones in between.
Lead team to meet technical, quality and project budget targets.
Support development of the software architecture, software requirements, software development plans, and software test plans.
Create Feature Roll out maps to determine the feature content for each software release.
Negotiate software delivery content with the customer, set implementation and defect resolution priorities, manage release activities, incorporate ASPICE activities into software project plans.
Identify risks, define mitigation strategies and execute them when needed.
Define acceptance criteria for deliverables from remote development teams (including cross-divisional teams) and third-party suppliers.
Plan and conduct software quality gate reviews.
Ensure software development, validation, and delivery are according to ISO26262 and ASPICE process guidelines.
Manage, track, and drive to resolution project software issues.