Project Coordinator

• Project Integration Management-Ensures problem identification and resolution for his / her program.
•  Ensures a high level of integration and collaboration with the plants and Launch Managers in their program as well as alignment with the program team members in Engineering, Sales, Finance, Quality and Purchasing.  
• Takes an active “go and verify” approach to his / her program by personally visiting the plants and suppliers at appropriate intervals,
• Ensures the effectiveness of their program team meetings and customer review meetings, Ensures effective communication with their program team.
• Acts as the central communication point for their programs,
• Manages the program team through APQP Process, Manages the quoting team during Stage 2, Project Scope and Risk Management,
• Ensures effective and timely scope management with emphasis on customer scope changes and executes the Scope Change process and approval.
• Ensures program trade off analysis – balancing cost, time, product and resources.
• Identifies program risks early, develops and executes mitigation strategies and executes the Red Flag process, Escalates risk with mitigation strategies to the leadership team in a timely fashion,
• Project Time and Resource Management Creates high quality timing plans that are developed with the program team with effective buy in from all functional areas,
• Meets 0 days late for all Gates, Meets all customer MRDs on time with high quality products.
• Project Cost and Financial Management, Ensures that all program financial targets and budgets are met, Verifies that the Capex expenses and Business Cases are reasonable and achievable, Ensures that effective and logical financial roadmaps are executed, Project Quality.
• Ensure that quality objectives and roadmaps are developed and executed via their program teams,
• Ensures that all quality objectives for all programs are met, Project Procurement Ensures sourcing on time with high quality suppliers.
• Ensures appropriate completion of Make versus Buy decisions, Ensures on time PPAP of purchased components, Visits critical suppliers at appropriate points in the program with the members of their Program Teams,
• PMP certification is preferred, Proven knowledge of APQP, tools and techniques, Participation or leadership in a cross functional team, Lead, motivate and drive a cross functional team,

Education

• BE Mechanical/ Industrial/Automobile/Production, PMP certification is preferred

Experience

• 5-7 years (automotive industry)

Job Soft skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Execution and quality focus.
• Ability to travel. Fluent in English. Multiple languages preferred (German).
• Knowledge of MS Office and MS Project.
• Good communication capacity with project core team, domestic or foreign supplier,  other global plants.
• Knowledge on SAP, MS Office and MS Projects