Automotive Mechanical Project Leader

Company Description  Bosch was founded in Stuttgart in 1886 by Robert Bosch () and for more than 130 years has been distinguished by a unique corporate culture based on solid values that drive us to improve every day. Our products, present in a wide variety of fields, that contribute to improve the quality of life of millions of people

Job Description  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.

Qualifications   Bachelor's degree:
Bachelor of Science in Mechatronic Engineering or related technical field (Mechanical, Electronic, Industrial Systems) or equivalent.
3 to 5 years of full experience in technical project management of automotive projects (product development (life cycle automotive industry experience).
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