Project Manager

Daimler Truck AG; Sriperumbudur; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Daimler Truck AG India in Sriperumbudur is seeking a Project Management professional to support the vehicle portfolio by coordinating with R&D, Marketing, Procurement and Manufacturing Engineering to track, assess and report project status.

You will steer and track projects through master plans and defined deliverables, ensuring time, quality and cost targets, and drive countermeasures when targets risk being met.

Qualifications

• BE/B.Tech degree required.
• Strong coordination and communication skills.
• Experience in cross-functional project environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with R&D, Marketing, Procurement and Manufacturing Engineering to track and report project status.
• Steer project through Master plan and defined deliverables to meet time, quality and cost targets.
• Identify risks, drive countermeasures and coordinate meetings with clear agendas and action follow-ups.
• Prepare project documentation such as quality gate reports and management dashboards for top committees.
• Maintain project metrics including cost status and localization targets for SoP and post localization.
• Ensure alignment of System Teams and interface with other functions to meet program goals.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional coordination

Reporting

Documentation

Education

BE/B.Tech

Job description

Job Description:

• Project Management support for entire vehicle portfolio which includes co-ordination with all functions such as R&D, Marketing, Procurement and Manufacturing engineering, etc., to track, assess & report on status of the project and to ensure overall project targets
• Steering & tracking of project through Master plan and defined deliverables, keeping time-, quality- and cost targets
• Proactively coordinate, moderate and drive finding of solutions and counter measures wherever time-, quality- or cost-targets are endangered
• Schedule recurring project meetings with clear agenda for respective programs, keep minutes of meeting and ensure follow up and execution of decisions taken and tasks defined
• Compilation of Project documentations (e.g. quality gate reports)
• Project reporting dashboards for Top-Management Committees such as DTA ExCom, IPB (India Product Board), A-PC (Asia - Product Committee), CTM (Core Team Meeting)
• Project metrics tracking; e.g. Cost status tracking (Target vs. EA; budget)
• Support in ensuring cost & localization targets for respective base types for SoP & Post Localization years
• Set up and implement Reporting guidelines in project related teams such as CTM, EVM (Entire Vehicle Management), System Teams, etc.
• Reporting of project status to Top Management through regular (weekly, biweekly, monthly) status report
• Implement and continuously improve project management tracker (Management Cockpit)
• Support and co-ordinate System Teams from holistic project point of view to keep project targets and drive implementation of project decisions and cost reduction measures
• Support for Project risks management, issues identification & resolution. Coordinate solution for open issues with all stake holders and their senior management, to ensure that open items are closed within required time frame
• Conduct Task Force meetings for key project deliverables; Adhoc assignments out of projects and management decisions
• Schedule recurring EVM meetings with clear agenda for respective programs
• Conduct Entire Vehicle Integration review meetings periodically and track agreed milestones & propose fall back solutions in case of delay
• Agree on key milestones based on Project Quality Gates (Spec release / Drawing Release / LoI date/ samples availability, etc.)
• Escalate open issues / major decisions in case of proto strategy (MoQ, Tooling strategy etc.) to Project Managenent Team
• Coordinate solution for open issues with all stake holders and ensure that open items are closed within acceptable time frame
• Drive implementation of cost reduction measures
• Monitor cost & localization targets for respective System Teams (ST’s) @ Proto build, SOP & Post Localization
• Monitor development of parts within given project targets of cost and time
• Manage parts availability by ensuring alignment of System Teams and functions like R&D, Marketing, Product planning, Finance & controlling, Procurement and Manufacturing engineering
• Participate in assigned System Teams and ensure interfaces between different ST’s, program direction and timelines are met, if necessary manage technical and time wise interfaces between ST’s and respective impacts on the overall project and elevate if required
• Coordinate, establish & track parts Bottom up Plan for all parts / systems / sub systems based on specifications availability / estimated lead time from procurement / test plan
• Evolve fallback options for parts that are not meeting timeline and ensure that the Project Quality Gates are met
• Lead and Co-ordinate Engineering BoM alignment with all System Teams
• Ensure the entire BoM is assigned to respective buyers / R&D engineers for development
• Identify the parts that are not covered in any of the System Team’s and ensure leftover parts are assigned to respective ST lead through Procurement and final E-BoM sign-off
• Coordinate change management activities and updates in Bill of Material for each Proto build

Qualifications

BE/B.Tech