Engineering Project Manager - Novi, MI

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As a member of the manufacturing team, the Project Manager will be responsible for having project ownership from quote hand off to project close, providing customer support & communication, and ultimately responsible for the related activities performed by multi-disciplined cross functional teams.  We take a disciplined approach to project management, clearly defining objectives, timing, and critical elements to ensure success. 

The Role:

Your work will include, but not be limited to:

• You will provide leadership for projects including scope, risk, timing, cost, and quality.
• As the customer main point of contact, you will spend most of your time communicating and facilitating the design and build process and ensuring customer satisfaction. This will include weekly updates and direct communication with the customer to resolve open issues.
• During the project you will report status updates, to both the customer and in house teams.  After project completion you will share best practices and lessons learned in monthly BP review.
• Act as the driving force for the team, promoting cooperation, conflict resolution & negotiation.
• Understand the financial details and budget of each assigned project.  Ensure that the projects stay within budget and alert management when the job approaches 80% of budget.
• Log and review RFQ’s
• Develop quote and submit quote to Lear
• Reiterate scope in the quote to match SOW or line up from team requesting the quote.
• Develop basic timeline and kickoff the job with a meeting with all leaders in Lear Novi that will impact the job.
• Develop issues list.  Communicate the issues list weekly and strive daily to close open issues.  PM’s main focus at this point of the job is to drive resolution to allow the team to complete the job.
• Review costs regularly to ensure job stays in budget.
• Communicate to the customer timing for inhouse run off and any shipping arrangements that need to be made.