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Program Manager -- Wire Harness -- Job ID 10846
Livonia, MI
Remove Post: September 30, 2015

Roush supplies comprehensive, integrated development services and provides customers with support that fuses technology and engineering. From design through prototyping, testing and manufacturing, we take our customers' visions from the sketch pad to production. We're focused, efficient, and we deliver. With over 3000 employees in more than 40 facilities across the United States, and interests around the world, Roush solves customers' problems and provides significant support to the automotive, performance products, military, entertainment, alternative fuels and consumer products industries. We are focused on performance, driven by technology, and committed to our customers' success. If you're only happy when your customers are happy, we want you on our team.

Roush is looking for an experienced Program Manager - Wire Harness to join our team? Due to our steady growth, we have a new opening for a Program Manager - Wire Harness in our Electronics group. The Program Manager - Wire Harness should display professionalism and maturity, as well as having specific wire harness experience. As a Program Manager -- Wire Harness, the position will be responsible for leading our Harness project team and be the critical person to ensure that we continue to deliver innovative, high quality projects on-time and on-budget to our clients. This position is located at our Livonia, MI facility.

Responsibilities:

• Lead clients and development team through project lifecycle: kickoff, discovery, design, implementation, prototype review and deployment.
• Schedule both internal and external project resources, including both client and technical team members, and have ownership of client deliverables.
• Define project plans and schedules, resource requirements, and project dependencies.
• Facilitate regular client reviews, internal reviews and planning meetings.
• Manage throughput and capacity planning; communicate relevant metrics to management team.
• Communicate project status to clients, project team, and management; provide accurate metrics for client invoicing.
• Knowledge of MIL standards in cables, harnesses, accessories and qualification testing.
• Conduct retrospectives with the goal of "inspect and adapt" and ongoing process improvement.
• Manage engineering related work as required, along with good use of judgment and ability to know when to risks.
• Demonstrate success in managing client relationships in a wire harness projects context.
• Demonstrate strong business process focus: skills and experience with structured fabrication methodologies as required.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Must have 5 years of project management experience.
• Must have experience with full harness projects and budgeting.
• Must have exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Must have a successful track record of proven project management experience delivering full harness projects on time and within budget.
• Understand the organizational goals and objectives are priority.
• Able to multi-task and manage fast paced environment with professionalism.

Preferred:

• Master's degree in engineering or MBA.
• Mechanical CAD design experience.
• Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Project management certification, or similar certifications.