Team Horizon currently has an exciting opening for an R&D Product Technical Manager to work on our client’s manufacturing facility in the west of Ireland.
Why you should apply:
- Our client has developed a stand-out culture of innovation
- Join a team who thrives on providing innovative products and automated services to the automotive industry
- Employees come first. Employees and their well-being are at the heart of their operations, and they believe in creating respectful and inclusive workplaces founded on these values.
What you will bedoing:
- The Project
- Planning / organization
- Project Scope (R&D Scope)
- Project Risk Assessment (R&D Risk List)
- Product Quality
- Project Schedule and Supplier Status (R&D Level 2 plan ties to Project Level 1 plan and customer milestones)
- Ability to define appropriate measures for themselves and the team to achieve project goals, Prioritization and co-ordination of those measures
- Drives and manages project progress - Result driven
- Ability to forecast issues / delays - constant updating managing of the Project Plan
- Work effectively in tight deadlines regardless of possible setbacks / roadblocks
- Ability to circumvent roadblocks / find solutions
- Identifying cross-project issues in the next generation project pipeline and working with R&D management to identify and implement solutions
- End customer orientation
- Strong relationship with customer, being able to build / repair relationships, defuses escalations.
- Manage the customer and their timelines ensuring dates / deliveries are respected.
- Ability to develop the customer view. Understanding customer plans before formalization.
- Analytical skills / problem solving.
- Leadership
- Ability to motivate a team (cross functional & diverse), have them working together to achieve a common goal
- Ability to delegate
- Lead by example (attitude)
- Expected to coach and train R&D team members (e.g., Sw Leader, HW Leader, other Product Technical leads)
- Sensitivity - recognizes each person’s strengths, interests, problem and improves their weaknesses
- Manage budget
- Cost driven to improve project financials
- Ability to motivate team in generating improvement activity
- Ability to forecast changes
- Estimation of resource needs and development workload within R&D; Ensuring the monthly balancing of resources against needs
- Manage communication/reporting with Customers on Project development progress
- Keep customers/stakeholders updated on Project progress.
- Prepare/validate reports on Project development progress to DR/PVC/TSC and to all Governance stages when required
- Manage customer relationship (internal and external) and coordinate communication within their team for any R&D/Technical issues.
- Manage Technical relations with external resources participating in Project Activity
- Support Product Marketing and Business Development activities as required
- Ensure management of Escalation if any
- Promote Valeo Values, Culture and Standards (Product, Methodology, Tools) within the System/ Project teams and control their application
- Respect Valeo Code of ethics
- Respect health, safety and environment charts and requirements
- Ensure Project development in compliance with Valeo standards
- An Engineering Degree in a relevant area e.g., Electronics
- Minimum 8 years’ experience in a Project/Product Management role
- Experience in the automotive Industry will be an advantage
- Manage Communication/reporting with customers
- Proven ability to deliver projects on time and within budget
- Good team player with proven leadership ability
- Excellent people management skills
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Confident, articulate, self-motivated, determined, energetic
- The company reserves the right to request an employee to be flexible in his/her duties
