Senior Staff Technical Program Manager - Body, Closures & Chassis
Leads end-to-end vehicle engineering programs across Body, Closures, and Chassis from concept through production, coordinating internal teams and external suppliers. Requires 12+ years of automotive engineering and project management experience, strong NPI expertise, and proficiency in engineering and program management methodologies.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Serve as the program and technical lead for the vehicle program across Body (BIW, structures), Closures (doors, mechanisms, glazing), and Chassis (suspension, subframes, tires, wheels, by-wire systems).
- Collaborate with internal engineers and external supplier design teams to ensure cohesive engineering execution.
- Oversee BOM integrity, approve critical build processes, and drive quality and cost engineering initiatives throughout the supply chain.
- Develop program schedules and partner with suppliers, quality, procurement, service, manufacturing, and engineering teams to drive complex issues to closure and ensure on-time delivery.
- Identify and communicate program progress, engineering challenges, and technical risks while developing strategic mitigation plans.
- Lead root-cause analysis and track critical build and design issues affecting vehicle performance, quality, and production readiness.
- Optimize performance, cost, quality, manufacturability, and serviceability through top-level design reviews, DFMEAs, validation programs, and manufacturing mock-builds.
Requirements
- B.S. or M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Automotive Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 12+ years of deep automotive engineering experience focused on Body, Closures, or Chassis design and project management.
- Proficiency with CATIA V5/V6, PLM/BOM management, FMEA/FTA, structured root-cause analysis (8D, Fishbone), and project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Polarion, Gantt charts, ERP, PLM, and ALM.
- Experience designing for crash, NVH, reliability, strength, and corrosion attributes.
- Proven experience managing complex cross-functional projects and delivering components through external design suppliers and contract manufacturers.
- End-to-end New Product Introduction (NPI) experience.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills across peers, suppliers, manufacturing, and executive management.
- Ability to travel globally as required.
Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with hardware/firmware product development and vehicle CAN/Firmware.
Skills
CATIA, Plm, Bom Management, Fmea, Fta, Root-Cause Analysis, 8D, Fishbone Analysis, Jira, Confluence, Polarion, ERP, Alm, Can
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