Engineering Project Manager

Engineering Project Manager

Location: 3241 Claude Ramsey Parkway, Chattanooga, TN 37421

Shift: 1st Shift (M-F, 8AM - 5PM or 7AM-4PM)

Hybrid: Yes – 2 days permitted home per week

About The Role: As an Engineering Project Manager, you’ll ensure product design and industrialization, including associated tools, meet Quality Control Testing requirements.

• Ensure product design and industrialization, including associated tools, are within Quality Control Testing requirements.
• Analyze customer needs and draft PO specifications.
• Define product design concepts to meet customer specifications and GD&T, ensuring design for manufacturing is fulfilled.
• Serve as the main technical contact with the customer during design and tuning phases.
• Provide functional specifications for baby parts.
• Manage and perform risk analysis.
• Manage specifications, manufacturing, and validation of the means.
• Manage product validation and tuning.
• Define the initial statement of work for product engineering, including extended team, project perimeter, development budget, and Optimap Work Packages.
• Define and set up the engineering project planning; manage engineering project reviews, consolidate actions, and provide reporting and action plans.
• Ensure product PRU commitment for design-relevant criteria.
• Allocate budget to the extended team; ensure follow-up of project budget and raise escalation in case of deviation.
• Travel: 10% domestic and 10% international.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Industrial Engineering or a closely related field.
• Experience: Five (5) years as a Quality Manager, Product Engineer, Project Leader, or closely related occupation.
• Skills: Design or development of plastic parts for the automotive industry;
  Checking Fixture Design/Concepts;
  Design Software Knowledge (CATIA);
  Geometry and Tolerancing Definition and Concepts; DFMEA Process Management; PPAP Process Management;
  Engineering Changes Management;
  Planning/Timing Management; and Budget Management.

As a responsible company, Plastic Omnium pays particular attention to diversity and equality within its teams, and the Group commits to treating all job applications equally.