About The Role
As a Technical Program Engineer Lead, you will be responsible for organizing and executing product development tasks. You will work in a cross-functional role planning, communicating, team building and executing a development plan to Harman and customer requirements.
What You Will Do
- Manage multiple product development projects, requiring both applications and international development engineering.
- Define tasks to be performed by cross-functional team in developing systems. Use task list to create a work breakdown structure. Use work breakdown structure to establish program schedule.
- Follow corporate product development (or applications) process.
- Ensure the compliance of team members.
- Ensure prompt decision-making is executed by promoting consensus decisions, intervening when consensus decision-making fails, and making unilateral decisions in the case of a deadlock.
- Understanding of Harman PLM process.
- Understand technical details of the products used in all systems, both electrical and mechanical.
- Review and understand Harman budgeting process, to manage and plan budget and resources for product development activities.
- Work with Sales, Supplier Engineering, and Design Engineering to set system cost target. Meet system cost target.
- Set team goals for timeliness, customer issues, and quality. Lead team to meet goals.
- Interact with all internal functions: design engineering, manufacturing, quality, purchasing, marketing, and sales.
- Negotiate resource allocations from functional managers. When a resource conflict occurs, negotiate a solution with functional managers and other program managers.
- Serve as lead program interface with customer.
- Identify program issues as early as possible and drive resolution at the team level. If resolutions requires management intervention, escalate to appropriate management personnel with proposed alternatives.
- Review selected suppliers and quotes, and participate in supplier reviews/selection as appropriate.
- Coordinate and oversee ordering of prototype and production tooling.
- Audit task completion. Report major deviations from plan to appropriate management.
- Provide monthly reports in requested format.
- Recommend continuous improvements development process. Complete other related duties as assigned by the supervisor.
What You Need
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field with 5 years overall experience
- 2+ years related experience to be in program management, sales, quality, design, engineering management, or process engineering
- Project management skills
- Background in Automotive Electronics
What is Nice to Have
- PMP certification preferred
- Experience with Automotive electronics hardware from a design, test, or project management perspective
What Makes You Eligible
- Be willing to travel up to 5% domestic and international travel and occasionally to customer locations and Harman Plants
- Be willing to work in an office in Novi, Michigan
- Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment
What We Offer
- Access to employee discounts on world class HARMAN/Samsung products (JBL, Harman Kardon, AKG etc.)
- Inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages career development opportunities
- Flexible work schedule with a culture encouraging work life integration and collaboration in a global environment
- On-site opportunities to focus on personal well-being and development such as, onsite caf, fitness center, weekly massage, fitness classes, and other onsite events promoted by our Employee resource groups
- Professional development opportunities through HARMAN University's business and leadership academies
- Internal talent management leadership acceleration programs
- Be Brilliant employee recognition and rewards program
- Scholarship programs for employee family members
