Senior Engineering Product Manager (13141)

HRU Technical Resources - Sterling Heights, MI

Full-time - Senior

Sterling Heights, MI

About the position

The Senior Engineering Product Manager (EPM) is responsible for providing engineering leadership to a cross-functional team, ensuring the successful delivery of key products and their integration and testing at both the subsystem and vehicle levels. The EPM leads performance activities and drives critical decisions to meet project schedules and cost objectives.

Responsibilities

• Possess, understand and apply the fundamental concepts, practices and procedures of project management to plan and execute engineering projects
• Generate and execute project plans and integrated schedules
• Establish funding mechanisms to facilitate work scope
• Forecast and maintain project demand files
• Establish & utilize metrics to drive and monitor project performance
• Facilitate and support technical and programmatic events
• Lead vehicle system-level design, integration, build, and test activities
• Represent the project and engineering organization to GDLS leadership and our customers
• Participate as a member of the program team leading the effort to success
• Prepare bids and provide bid support for any applicable RFI or proposal efforts
• Serve as a primary technical interface for internal & external customers
• Coordinate incoming problem reports for prioritization and processing
• Support change processing metrics through tracking, measuring and managing aging issues to resolution
• Evaluate and disseminate customer comments to proposed changes for immediate action
• Propose/assess process improvements to increase through-put of design updates and customer satisfaction.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in defense industry or similar Acquisition environments
• Proven ability to effectively manage in an indirect leader role
• Proven ability to establish and maintain effective customer relationships
• Demonstrated ability to form and lead teams
• Experience in leading design, development and integration of complex systems
• Proven leadership skills and competencies
• Ability to assess technical risk and develop corrective actions and/or mitigation plans
• Excellent analytical, planning and problem-solving skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Excellent business acumen and negotiating skills
• Ability to travel as needed