Head of Product & Project Management

Do you want to join a team of hardworking, enthusiastic and creative people and enjoy working with a company that recognizes and embraces diversity? Do you take pride working with a company that is committed to being a great corporate citizen and playing a role in producing the highest quality products and services?

Founded in 1948 by John Pridgeon and Donald Clay, we are one of the largest independent, value-added manufacturers and suppliers of automotive stamped and fine-blanked components in the United States.

Objective :
The Project Manager will manage the successful launch of new products in an exemplary manner according to the company policies while meeting or exceeding our customer requirements.

• Associates degree (Business preferred)
• Experience in a project management environment
• Ability to coordinate multiple projects and drive on-time completion of programs with a high degree of detail
• High level of proficiency in MS Office (including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project)
• Strong self-motivation, with ability to manage personal work load with minimal supervision
• Ability and willingness to work well in a team-based work setting, building effective work relationships using collaboration skills
• Excellent communication (written and verbal), customer service and interpersonal skills
• Strong organization skills, including detail-oriented project-management skills
• Bachelor's degree (Business preferred)
• Previous experience in the automotive industry
• Working knowledge of the Advanced Product Quality Process (APQP)

• Initiate and track customer billing per project budget.
• Initiate, track, and monitor tooling project expenses.
• Track and monitor Capital Expenditure Projects associated with any Launch related project.
• Meet weekly with Program Launch Business Manager and communicate changes in forecasted profit and loss on tooling projects.
• Develop a justification summary and corrective action with input from the launch team for management review and approval if budgets are to be exceeded.

• Create, monitor, drive, and track the completion of APQP project tasks on time.
• Maintaining and organizing appropriate APQP documents within Part Folders.
• Manage timeline: escape, and drive the achievement of Gate Milestone on time.
• Monitor, escape, and drive the closure of project action items on time.
• Maintain daily comment project file tracker to ensure project progress is up to date and accurate.
• Organize and track on time production and shipping of early parts, dies, gauges, and PPAP packages.

• Submit requests for Launch / Production Planning Meeting agenda updates and additions.
• Work with customers to clearly define and document goals and objectives of new product launches.
• Identify and communicate risks of launch plans, and then communicate risk to management.
• Organize and attend program meetings/conference calls with customers as required.
• Create and manage project timelines and provide timing plan and project status updates, to customers per their requests and/or requirements.
• Accurately inform Customer Service to add or remove orders related to early parts, cap runs and prove out runs.
• Accurately inform Information Technology Department about routers and bill of materials and ensure that information is updated correctly.
• Inform team and assure compliance with customer specific forms and practice (feasibility forms, asset tags, die pictures, die biographies, etc.).
• Effectively communicate with co-workers and management personnel to enhance teamwork and communication initiatives.
• Provide necessary, accurate, and timely feedback of all pertinent information to co-workers and management.
• Organize and maintain efficiency of…