Project Manager

Aumovio•Auburn Hills, MI

About The Position

The Project Manager owns engineering feasibility assessments, manufacturing and process design, validation plans, and integrated project plans for automotive customer programs involving new technologies. The role supports programs from initiation through industrialization and launch, applying engineering analysis to evaluate customer requirements, develop production-process solutions, assess product and process changes, and verify readiness against technical, quality, and manufacturing requirements. The Project Manager leads global, cross-functional teams and is accountable for delivery, including schedules, budgets, risks, resources, and stakeholder communication. The position also supports business acquisition for assigned customers and serves as a key interface between customer organizations and internal teams. Allocated to the Business Growth Environment, the role requires a customer-focused professional who translates customer requirements and strategic objectives into technically feasible product-development and industrialization plans, while aligning engineering feasibility, manufacturing capability, and commercial objectives.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field.
At least 7 years of progressive experience in automotive development and project execution, including leading cross-functional delivery through industrialization and launch.
At least 5 years of customer-facing experience in automotive project or engineering roles, communicating requirements, technical issues, changes, and program status.
Experience evaluating engineering feasibility, manufacturing and process readiness, validation results, and product or process change impacts.
Proficiency with project management tools such as Microsoft Project or equivalent, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Excel.
Ability to communicate technical and program information clearly to customers and internal stakeholders.
Ability to manage project plans, milestones, priorities, risks, documentation, and follow-up actions across multiple stakeholders.
Experience collaborating with global, cross-functional, or geographically distributed project teams.
Experience supporting automotive customers.
Legal authorization to work in the United States is required.

Nice To Haves

Advanced automotive project development experience beyond the minimum qualifications.
Experience with complex electronic modules.
Master’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field.
Experience with traditional OEMs and New Mobility or similar OEM customer development, launch, or program management processes.
PMP certification.
Manufacturing interface or Build to Print experience.
Efficiency improvement experience through process optimization, automation, or AI.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary customer contact across multiple products, communicating technical assessments and project status, coordinating cross-functional responses, managing expectations, and building customer relationships.
Represent the voice of the customer internally by translating customer needs into technical and operational requirements and aligning engineering, manufacturing, and project priorities.
Serve as the primary interface with customer engineering teams; own engineering feasibility assessments and work with engineers to assess technology-development requirements, alternatives, and proposed product or process changes.
Own manufacturing and process design and industrialization deliverables for assigned programs.
Develop and evaluate process-design solutions with engineering and manufacturing teams, considering product requirements, production methods, resources, quality controls, and validation activities.
Coordinate application development, resource planning, schedules, risks and opportunities, budgets, and launch execution.
Analyze engineering specifications, technical and validation data, manufacturing capability, and commercial and project data to evaluate feasibility, identify issues, and recommend engineering solutions.
Assess the effects of proposed design and process changes on production cost, quality, reliability, resources, and launch readiness.
Ensure customer requirements are understood, documented, and evaluated against internal product, service, engineering, and manufacturing capabilities.
Develop technically supported recommendations with engineers when customer requirements are immature or missing, and maintain alignment among requirements, process-design decisions, and validation criteria.
Lead global cross-functional teams from engineering, manufacturing, quality, sales, finance, and purchasing to develop and industrialize assigned technologies within defined scope, timing, and budget.
Own validation plans with engineering and quality teams, evaluate results against technical and quality requirements, and drive resolution of gaps while meeting customer milestones and maintaining profitability.
Establish project kickoffs and integrated project baselines covering engineering feasibility, manufacturing and process design, validation deliverables, resources, timing, cost, and customer milestones.
Maintain current technical decisions and project documentation throughout development and launch.
Establish monitoring mechanisms to assess technical deliverables, validation progress, manufacturing readiness, and milestone performance.
Develop corrective and recovery actions with engineering, manufacturing, and quality teams, and escalate unresolved risks in time to prevent milestone delays.
Represent the project team to internal stakeholders and report on feasibility, technical decisions, validation results, industrialization readiness, project status, and unresolved risks.
Own project scope and engineering change-request assessments; evaluate proposed product and process changes with engineers for feasibility and effects on manufacturing, validation, quality, reliability, cost, resources, and timing.
Prepare documented technical recommendations, effort estimates, and execution plans for changes, and ensure agreed customer changes are implemented and verified while meeting margin objectives.
Manage project profitability and work with engineering and manufacturing teams to assess cost-effective alternatives, reduce avoidable rework, and improve process efficiency while maintaining technical, quality, and customer requirements.