Sr. Technical Program Manager, Product Excellence

About Rivian

Rivianis on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract.

As a company, we constantly challenge what’s possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations.

• Identify and drive cost, throughput, and quality improvement opportunities to establish a post-launch HV battery design change roadmap in alignment with Engineering, Purchasing, Supplier Quality, Validation, and Manufacturing
• Create implementation timelines. Communicate them to the design engineering team, to suppliers and to cross functional teams (purchasing, pilot, test and validation, manufacturing, vehicle, etc.).
• Work with the engineering team, the vehicle program team, supply chain and finance to define BOM cost, investment and mass targets and provide regular updates on status to target.
• Monitor and drive cross-functional HV battery problem resolution activity according to Rivian’s problem resolution process and performance metrics.
• Implement an open issues list with each supplier and monitor their progress against it. Elevate issues and risks immediately to mitigate impact to the program.
• Coordinate and track HV battery failure analysis asset routing
• Report weekly series production battery program status and elevate when support is required
• Develop relationships with existing suppliers to support Rivian ongoing development programs
• Collaborate with Inventory Control and New Product Introduction to make sure the correct parts are ready for each build.
• Track program milestones to ensure that Design Responsible Engineers (DREs) and other contributors stay on track
• Issue tracking and corrective action implementations using JIRA, Confluence, Enovia, etc.
• Support regular Product Development Team (PDT) meetings with suppliers, engineers and purchasing. Align all parties to ESS project milestones.
• Use design release previous expertise to help guide each project. Review progress regularly with a critical eye to deliverable quality.
• Support ESS Change Control Board for your projects. Document and approve change requests and change actions.
• Communicate battery checkpoint deliverables and plan resources to deliver to milestone targets.
• Confirm with Manufacturing Engineering that the process capability matches the part maturity requirements of ESS Test and Validation and the Vehicle Program
• Ensure engineering documentation is coordinated and managed to project milestones – NUDDs, Requirements, DFMEA, DVP, Functional Safety

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering/technology field, Master’s degree preferred
• 3+ years’ experience as a design & release engineer or equivalent role.
• 2+ years’ experience in Technical Project/Program Management
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, presentation)
• Understanding of the product development process (automotive experience a plus)
• Good knowledge of Jira, Jama/Flow, Confluence, Microsoft Project and/or Smartsheet
• Experience working in and navigating ENOVIA and 3
  
  DEXPERIENCE (CATIA V6)
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to collaboratively work with and influence cross-functional departments both internally and externally.
• Formal training and demonstratable skills in problem solving and/or quantitative analysis a plus (5-why, 8D, design for six sigma, etc.)
• Certificates in program management a plus (PMP, APQP, etc.)
• History of first principals approach to problem solving.
• Strong team player with a high degree of urgency and personal ownership.
• Desire to work in fast-paced environment. History of putting in extra effort to get the job done.
• Passionate about EVs. Experience with electrification programs (especially battery) preferred.
• Demonstrated expertise launching multiple projects, ideally beginning in early concept development.

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