Project Manager

【Position】

Project Manager

【Summary】

We are looking to add a smart and eager-to-contribute individual for a Project Manager role to help accelerate the already growing business operations at the company.

【Essential Duties】

As the Project Manager, the candidate will thrive to:

1) Proactively manage and lead the successful commercial and technical activities to make an engineering project successful, ensuring adherence to budget, timing, and quality.

2) Lead and perform the delivery of several tasks during the execution of the customer projects.

3) Learn new engineering concepts, equipment, software tools for successful delivery.

4) Create written reports/analysis (Excel/Word/Powerpoint) for project status and proposals.

5) Communicate with customers, with support from the supervisor and team.

6) Propose proactively in engineering projects towards expansion of the business.

【Working Hours, Working style】

- Approximately 40 hours per week

- Office setting, must be able to sit and work on a computer for extended periods of

time, ability to walk and stand, travel as needed.

【Working Location】

- Novi, MI (main office); This is an in-office role

- Occasional business travels expected in the US

Primarily local day-trips

Overnight trips: 1-4 days per trip / 0-1 trips per month

- At external project sites in the US, during project period

Customer sites in MI (driving distance from the main office)

【Salary, Benefit】

(a) Annual Base Salary = $105,000

(b) Annual Target Bonus = 10%

(c) Paid Time Off = 10 day’s vacation (planned) 8 days occasional time (unplanned) 14

holidays (anticipated)

(d) Choice of 3 different Medical plans, Dental, Vision

(e) Life Insurance, Disability, other

(f) 401k match = up to 5%

(g) Use of company vehicle for customer visits and project support

(h) IT equipment including laptop and cell phone

(i) Customized Career Development Roadmap for personal and professional development,

with expectation of candidate growth within the company to higher roles and more

responsibility. This may include tuition reimbursement up to $10,000/year for

company approved education.

【Holidays】

Saturday, Sunday, Holiday

【Qualifications】

(a) 8 years of professional engineering experience.

Very strong foundational engineering skills.

a. Must Have:

1 Mechanical/Electrical/Mechatronic Product Development Experience.

2 Previous Experience as an Application Engineer or Design & Release Engineer for the entire continuous V-cycle (Concept to SOP).

3 Experience and understanding of CAD/CAE/FEA, mechanical/electrical design

4 The ability to manage suppliers and timelines.

5 The ability to work directly with customers as the primary contact point.

6 The ability to think strategically and create proposals/solutions to address customer pain points.

b. Nice to Have:

1 Additional engineering experience in one or more: ADAS/AD,

Battery/Electrification, Software Defined Vehicle (SDV), Embedded Software Development, ASPICE, Cybersecurity, Functional Safety, CAN Signal Processing, Data Analytics, Production Environment, Project Management

2 Knowledge of Automotive integration efforts, processes, new technologies and trends in the Autonomous space.

3 OEM and Tier1 experience

(b) Bi-Lingual in English and Japanese (Native or Fluent (N1)

(c) Self-motivated, proactive, urgent, enthusiastic, ambitious, & passionately curious

– does not require micro-level instructions and oversight to take action.

(d) Open to learn new engineering skills, commercial skills, tools, ideas etc.

(e) IT skills (MS power point, MS Words, spreadsheets etc.)

(f) Open to working in multi-national team

(g) Creative mind-set to combine engineering and business

(h) Willingness and desire to tap into personal network and previous employers to acquire

new business opportunities

(i) Professional Certifications:

a. PMP desired, but not required upon entry.

PMP certification will be paid for and expected by the company within the first 12 months of employment.

EDUCATION

(a) Bachelor degree in Engineering.

Mechanical, Electrical, Computer Science, Software, Automotive, etc.

(b) Master’s Degree and/or MBA (Nice to have)