Vision Project Manager

Lear Corporation•Southfield, MI

About The Position

As a member of the Vision team, the Project Manager will be responsible for Leading, Supporting, Implementing, and Managing Vision projections while driving innovation in advancements. The candidate will use their vast knowledge, experience, and resourcefulness to lead and implement vision cells and drive standards across North America. As a Project Manager in Vision, you will have project ownership from quote hand off to project close, providing customer support & communication, and ultimately responsible for the related activities performed by multi-disciplined cross functional teams. We take a disciplined approach to project management, clearly defining objectives, timing, and critical elements to ensure success. Advantages of working at Lear in the Automation group: Drive Innovation with new advancements in Industry Opportunities for future training to broaden skills Be part of a team of experts to drive solutions that improve efficiencies, safety and quality Work with various assembly plants and integrators.

Requirements

Comprehensive understanding of Project Management best practices and processes, including but not limited to MS Project, Excel, critical path analysis and change management.
History of managing customer contracts and relationships as well as indirectly managing teams.
Actively listen, probe, and identify concerns. Develop credibility, loyalty, trust, & commitment.
Ability to negotiate, resolve conflict and proactive decision analysis.
Travel to Lear sites up to 30% of the time. This may include domestic and international travel depending on the project.
Lead/Manage engineers and technical trades on project teams.
Good communicator, organized & self-motivated
Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent combination of experience and education.
5+ years of experience in industrial automation or engineering services industry.
5+ years of experience in Project Management.

Nice To Haves

PMP desired but not required.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership for projects including scope, risk, timing, cost, and quality.
Communicate and facilitate the design and build process and ensuring customer satisfaction. This will include weekly updates and direct communication with the customer to resolve open issues.
Report status updates, to both the customer and in house teams. After project completion you will share best practices and lessons learned in monthly BP review.
Act as the driving force for the team, promoting cooperation, conflict resolution & negotiation.
Understand the financial details and budget of each assigned project. Ensure that the projects stay within budget and alert management when the job approaches 80% of budget.
Create RFQ’s
Track purchased with all Intouch departments
Develop quote and submit quote to Lear
Reiterate scope in the quote to match SOW or line up from team requesting the quote.
Develop Milestone Timeline and kickoff the job with a meeting with all leaders @ Plant and Vision Team that will impact the job.
Develop & manage issues lists. Communicate the issues list weekly and strive daily to close open issues. PM’s focus at this point of the job is to drive resolution & manage schedule to allow the team to complete the job.
Communicate to the customer timing for FAT and any shipping arrangements that need to be made.
All other PM responsibilities & tasks.
Assist where needed in cell equipment install.