Responsibilities:
1. Lead and coordinate the interdisciplinary project team (engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, quality, sales) from start of project/RFQ until closeout & transfer milestone.
2. Responsible to achieve project targets (project scope, quality, timing, product cost, project budget consisting of engineering hours/OPEX/CAPEX, business case).
3. Coordinate project team members to prepare PPAP documents and submit to customers on time.
4. Ensure timely and efficient decision making within given project targets.
5. Ensure proper resource planning for the project together with the relevant resource managers
6. Management of the customer interface as main point of contact and representative of the project team & company, including relationship management, escalation management, technical negotiations, decision making with the customer.
7. Lead the change management for internal or external (customer) changes; identify, plan, assess risks and decide changes vs. agreed project scope.
8. Regular (monthly) risk management of project risks including definition and coordination of risk mitigation activities.
9. Project reporting (metrics/project budget/product cost/timeline) to the internal stakeholders (Lead of PM, Directors, Management Board).