Program Manager

Role Overview: As a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in Int Trims (Dash, Cockpit), Seating, and Ext Trims, you will be responsible for leading a team of Team Leads, engineers, and designers. Your role involves guiding the team through concept design, macro feasibility during the styling stage, engineering feasibility, validation, production build, launch, and post-launch support. Key Responsibilities: - Lead and guide the team to achieve project milestones for components and assemblies. - Conduct make and buy discussions, cost, weight, and quality balancing in collaboration with the Chief Engineer and Product Line Verticals (NPI). - Ensure timely delivery at every milestone as per the project time plan and schedule assigned by the Project lead. - Manage design detailing and release activities, validation plan, tooling feasibility and kickoff, tooling evaluation, initial quality check, and sign off for a vehicle program for interior/exterior trims. - Utilize advanced knowledge of Automotive Interior/Exterior Trims/Seating system components. - Demonstrate domain skills and technical competency in design, engineering, and validation of interior/exterior trims/seating. Qualifications Required: - BE degree with a minimum of 20 years of experience. - Minimum two complete vehicle design, engineering, and development cycles till launch and post-launch support. - Proficiency in CATIA, JT for hands-on design review, PLM knowledge for BOM management with relation to feature list. - Good working experience of design and engineering processes (DFMEA, DVP, DFM, DFA, and DFS). - Knowledge of tooling of plastics, inspection fixtures, material selection, plastics assembly and joining technology, and craftsmanship. - Awareness of automotive regulations and conversant with plastic components design and engineering. - Detailed understanding of mechanism parts related to the automotive domain and its functions/expectations. - Ability to study work scope, estimate resource and skill set requirements. - Capability to foresee trends in the market and plan to remain competitive. - Strong ability to work well under pressure, manage and prioritize multiple projects against tight deadlines. - Proven experience in planning, assigning, and monitoring resources. - Excellent leadership and mentoring skills to lead the team effectively. - Proficient in coordinating with internal and external agencies and stakeholders for design, development, and launch of vehicles. - Experience in managing post-vehicle launch engineering support, resolving manufacturing, quality, weight, and cost reduction activities. - Ability to participate in initiatives for continuous improvement in engineering processes. (Note: Additional details about the company were not provided in the job description.),