The Mechanical Project Leader coordinates all project component related tasks and activities from start of development until end-of-production. Manage communication between internal/external stakeholders. Capable of leading projects of medium to high complexity. Acts as a technical counterpart to the Project Manager and is responsible for planning, coordinating and executing global multi-disciplinary engineering activities to achieve project success. Responsible for making sure the technical team understands and fulfills the customer and internal requirements on specification, on schedule and on budget.
- Will be responsible for coordinating cross functional engineering teams to achieve project goals during the project life cycle. ME-PL leads the support teams (e.g. purchasing, production plant project leader, mechanical design engineer, testing engineer) within the project execution, on topics related to mechanical topics.
- Manage international cross-functional teams to assure automotive project requirements implementation on time, within costs and specifications.
- Collaborate with SW and HW development functions on advanced Driver Assistance technologies.
- Main contact/interface and coordinator with customers and other stakeholders to understand their needs to deduce prioritization of increments by business value.
- Implementation of defined technical content to project targets.
- Risk management within discipline scope and support of the Project Manager
- Project planning and tracking within discipline scope, cross-functional aligned between the disciplines for mechanical topics
- Evaluation and planning of mechanical requirements and estimation of effort within project scope
- Direct contact with OEMs on technical discussions within project scope
- Support of the Project Manager in the management of mechanical issues within project scope.
- Preparation of releases within the project scope (e.g. Technical Releases, Quality Gates)
- Take design and implementation decisions to fulfill the technical requirements in the project within the defined boundaries. Accept / reject technical requirements in the customer project.
- Responsible for evaluating customer specifications, translating requirements into requirement evaluation, tests coverage, and support of issues tracking.
- Carry out project management according to Bosch APQP.
- Costs estimation and budget development, tracking and control.
- Plan and moderate samples build and delivery.
- Project meeting organization internal & external for monitoring to report project status to upper management (open topics, issues monitoring, tracking and resolving) on recurrent basis (weekly, monthly, other).
- Support all continuous improvement and cost reduction efforts.
- Supports sales and purchasing departments in acquisition phases for development efforts and technical descriptions.
- Responsible for the timely delivery of product goals and targets, including specifications and samples. (resource planning and timelines).
- Assures documentation of the project to fulfill internal and customer quality standards ensuring best practices.