Project Milestone Keeper

Stellantis • Auburn Hills, MI

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About The Position

The Project Milestone Keeper (PMK) assesses projects at each milestone or review, including vehicle, powertrain, platform, electrical/electronic, engine, gearbox, and new mass-production launch projects. The PMK evaluates project status against key performance indicators—including quality, performance, cost, schedule, industrialization, purchasing, and brand—and reviews the deliverables expected at each milestone.

The PMK contributes lessons learned from assigned projects to improve standards and methods, including SOD and MPRI. They advise project teams on quality actions and recovery plans, and on methods to achieve product and process quality results. The role also provides commercialization agreement for vehicles or powertrains.

The project scope includes engine, gearbox, and electric powertrain projects; serial-life powertrain evolutions; partnership and cooperation projects; and new industrializations, such as new engine, gearbox, or electric powertrain component plant projects. The PMK works closely with project teams and key stakeholders, establishes and assesses milestone deliverables, convenes milestone assessment meetings, and arranges discussions between project teams and relevant stakeholders to develop recovery plans when needed. They identify and share methods and lessons learned to improve future projects and standards. A Project Quality Correspondent assists with activities to define milestone assessments.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or a related degree.
• 10+ years of engineering experience, including a minimum of 5 years of management experience.
• Experience in the automotive industry and product development.
• Self-directed and team-oriented, with demonstrated planning and problem-solving skills.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work with people at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to collect and synthesize data into meaningful information and communicate it clearly to all organizational levels.
• Strong proficiency in MS Office Suite, such as Excel and PowerPoint.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree.
• Exceptional communication skills and ability to build strong internal and external partnerships.
• Expertise in planning, prioritizing, and goal setting, including managing multiple projects, determining urgency, creating detailed action plans, and organizing schedules, people, and tasks.
• Assertive and ambitious nature.
• Results-oriented approach.
• Motivation to learn new principles and ideas and apply them.
• Motivation to make a positive impact in the work environment and on product quality.

Responsibilities

• Assess assigned projects at each milestone or review against expected deliverables and KPIs for quality, performance, cost, schedule, industrialization, purchasing, and brand.
• Establish the quotation and assessment of deliverables expected at each milestone.
• Arrange milestone assessment meetings before each milestone to share the synthesis and assessment quotation.
• Arrange meetings between project teams and relevant stakeholders to identify solutions and recovery plans when needed.
• Advise project teams on quality actions, recovery plans, and methods to achieve product and process quality results.
• Provide commercialization agreement for vehicles or powertrains.
• Identify methods and processes that can advise future projects and improve standards using lessons learned.
• Attend meetings to improve methods and processes by sharing lessons learned from project follow-up.
• Maintain close relationships with project teams and key project actors to assess execution and milestone readiness.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior