Project Leader (65176)

D-Career

About The Position

Lead and coordinate a main project in category C according to customer requirements for assuring product development and support from the conception phase until series production.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree preferred but not required.
1 to 2 years of Project/Program Management.
Basic knowledge of Norm IATF 16949, ISO 14001:2015, ISO45001:2018
Basic knowledge of Injection Molding, Risk Analysis and Stastical Tools.

Responsibilities

Create project plans/concepts and assure they are followed (e.g. resource planning, schedule planning, cost planning, etc.) in cooperation with technical or key project leaders as well as technical areas; introduce actions in case of deviations, as required
Cooperate in conducting risk analyses
Develop suggestions for project organization; select suitable associates in cooperation with supervisors and define tasks, rules and interfaces
Assure compliance with allocated project budget and distribute to functions reporting to him/her (e.g. sub-project leaders, etc.); introduce actions in case of deviations
Act as interface between involved internal/ external areas (e.g. key project leader, technical project leader, sub-project leader, customers, suppliers, departments, etc.)
Assure compliance with set project indicators/ goals
Analyze and evaluate changes (internal/ external), cooperate in negotiations (e.g. volume and costs of changes, etc.) and assure implementation
Create and check project reports and presentations, as well as project conclusion documentation
Provide technical leadership for project associates and/ or sub-project leaders
Cooperate in optimizing/developing processes, systems and methods (e.g. conduct lessons learned reviews, etc.)
Compile, analyze, and evaluate necessary data for creation of an investment overview based on the annual investment plan as well as check and evaluate the annual the annual post-calculations
Promote problem solving, setting priorities, and making future-oriented decisions in cooperation with the departments and with the supervisors
Assure compliance with defined escalation steps in case of target/ actual deviations
Process tasks according to SEP (analysis of concepts and scenarios)
Hand over the project to series production (or representatives from series production); conduct series support in the sense of technical product responsibility, as a contact person for product-specific matters
Support products in the series phase/model updates (e.g. model year change, LCI, MOPF, etc.)
Develop technical solutions for part changes based on customer requirements manuals
Clarify technical solutions and explain these technical solutions as part of customer meetings
Check technical feasibility in cooperation with technical project management
Analyze change requests with regard to tools, product quality and subsequent processes
Prepare/evaluate and release information for the analysis of cost effects
Assure that there is current data in the internal DRX digital drawing archive and the CAD databases that are linked with the customer; act as contact person in case of inconsistencies
Transfer series products into the spare parts service (e.g. excesses, transfers, standard parts, etc.)
Support the purchasing department in controlling changes and selecting suppliers