Description

Job Description

Design Program Management Engineer

Responsibilities

• Manage and track Design's program deliverables and ensure all deliverables are met in line with Studio and program targets.
• Ownership, leadership and management of Design delivery processes and procedures. Initiate improvements to processes to gain product quality, efficiency and timing improvements.
• Facilitate/Co-lead AP regional appearance review forums. Support Global Appearance review forums as required.
• Design program budget development, tracking and status reporting.
• Administrator of procurement requests including ordering, receipting, resource planning and spending forecast.
• Support program timing forums ensuring design requirements are supplied and understood.
• Work with program team, Functional Engineering teams, Marketing and other functions to ensure target setting, compatibility and delivery is robust.
• Interface with global design teams ensuring appropriate AP feedback is supplied during product development phase.

Qualifications

Education Qualification:
Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering or Equivalent

No. of Years of Experience:

3 years + experience

Professional Exposure:
(Technical Skills) Ford Motor Company Product Development system

Preferred previous experiences:

Exposure working with senior leadership team.

Functional Skills:

• 2 or more years of product development experience.
• Program management experience is preferred.
• Experience with Vehicle Development Process.
• Experience with Design internal team coordination.
• Fundamental understanding of design development process.

Behavioral Skills

• Strong communication and team player skills and working with global teams abroad.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to communicate with cross functional teams.
• Ability to work in a collaborative, team environment and ability to work under aggressive timelines and sporadic heavy workloads.
• Possess sustainability against changing demand from internal & external business requirements.

Special Knowledge/Skills Required

• Experience with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel.
• Working knowledge of SharePoint development and security protocols.
• Fluency in hosting and managing online/offline meeting or workshop.
• Understanding of Non-Production Purchasing and Project Control system.

Any Others

• Highly fluent in English and Mandarin;

• Candidates should be flexible with work hours due to time differences between markets.