Program Manager CAD Development

WHO WE ARE
Working together, growing together, creating new things together: EDAG connects people and the future. Company and workforce share the same vision. With a familiar atmosphere and at the same time the potential of a global world-class development company. You‘ll go your own way in your career at a high level – nationally and internationally.  Take your next step and support us as a PROGRAM MANAGER CAD DEVELOPMENT.

DESCRIPTION

• Manage complete product development programs from RFQ through SOP and establish project timelines, milestones, resourceplans, and risk management strategies.​
• Lead cross-functional engineering reviews, governance meetings and drive issue resolution and escalation management.​
• Ensure compliance with customer CAD standards and internal engineering processes required by EDAG and our clients.​
• Act as primary technical/program contact for our customers (OEMs & Tiers1) and align customer expectations with developmentcapability and program timing.​
• Lead design reviews and status reporting with customer engineering teams.​
• Lead cross functional teams and work closely with: Product engineering, CAE, manufacturing engineering, quality and suppliers.​
• Ensure design compliance with: DFMEA, DFM/DFA, GD&T, packaging requirements, quality standards and release readiness.​
• Lead multi-site engineering teams and support workforce planning and capacity management.​
• Mentor CAD leaders / design engineers and drive continuous improvement initiatives. ​

REQUIREMENTS

• 15+ year of experience inside the automotive industry in development area & 5 years leading development programs/teams.​
• Knowledge in interior, exterior trim, BIW, Closures.​
• Advance knowledge in APQP, DFMEA, DVP&R, DFA, DFM, PPAP, GD&T and Materials.​
• Experience managing global teams and customer-facing projects and proven record of launching automotive products intoproduction.​
• International Experience (desirable)​
• Experience in developing phase from: Concept until tooling kick off.​
• English B2 (Advanced)​
• German A2 (desirable)​

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