Technical Project Manager (Multiple Positions) (REF232810X)

Bosch - Plymouth, MI

Full-time

Remote - Plymouth, MI

Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing

About the position

Robert Bosch LLC is seeking multiple Technical Project Managers to lead project teams and achieve project targets, ensuring that projects are completed on time, within scope, budget, and quality standards. The role involves steering product development activities and overseeing quality assurance in product development projects. The Technical Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring product performance and fulfilling system requirements, including safety and security requirements when applicable. The position requires streamlining product and feature planning by aligning requirements, technical design, and product marketing to effectively demonstrate parking systems for North American vehicle manufacturers. The Technical Project Manager will focus on aligning strategies in product roadmap development, benchmarking, demo readiness, feature planning, and roll-out. This includes developing North American-specific software products, particularly parking features, and participating in acquisition activities for parking systems business development engineering. The role involves analyzing customer requirements, developing solution concepts, system definitions, architecture, and specifications. The Technical Project Manager will lead and drive all customer communications in collaboration with sales and product management for new acquisitions and USS system demonstrations. Additionally, the position requires defining vehicle-level impacts based on requirements and facilitating demo readiness of parking product features. The Technical Project Manager will also define and execute functionality testing based on prototypes to validate design concepts, analyze testing results, and support engineering efforts. The role includes driving benchmarking activities, participating in acquisition activities, and developing cost and effort estimations. Furthermore, the Technical Project Manager will contribute to hardware processes for production start and handover to the plant, ensuring adherence to engineering processes for production, including electrical control units and sensors.

Responsibilities

• Lead the project team to achieve project targets on time, on scope, on budget, and on quality.
• Steer product development activities and quality assurance in product development projects.
• Ensure product performance and fulfillment of system requirements, including safety and security requirements.
• Streamline product and feature planning by aligning requirements, technical design, and product marketing.
• Develop North American specific software products such as parking features.
• Participate in acquisition activities for parking systems business development engineering.
• Analyze customer requirements and develop solution concepts, system definitions, architecture, and specifications.
• Lead customer communication along with sales and product management for new acquisitions and USS system demonstrations.
• Define vehicle level impact based on requirements and facilitate demo readiness of parking product features.
• Define and carry out functionality testing based on prototypes for proof of design concept.
• Drive benchmarking activities and actively participate in acquisition activities.
• Develop cost and effort estimations for projects.
• Contribute to hardware processes for production start and handover to the plant.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related degree.
• 5 years of experience as a Software Project Manager, Hardware Project Manager, or in automotive product development.
• Experience with the full development cycle of supplier automotive ASIL-B products, specifically in driver assistance sensor technologies/functions.
• Familiarity with automotive plant release processes, tools, and standards, including Bill Of Material updates and Engineering Change Requests.
• Experience in technical interface and implementation of automated or semi-automated driver assistance systems, focusing on hardware electronics/systems/requirements/software development.
• Coordination of large multi-regional and multi-disciplinary engineering teams using waterfall, Agile (SCRUM, Kanban, or Lean), and hybrid project management approaches.
• Experience in budget planning and tracking specific to automotive R&D.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with technical acquisitions and change management lead, including feasibility, efforts/cost, and timing assessment.