USS Technical Project Lead

About the Role

The Technical Project Lead (TPL) role is responsible to lead the cross functional product team (i.e. EE, SW, ME, SYS, V&V) in all technical activities for the project.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead the work of global team members working on software, hardware and mechanical product teams standardization and reuse through Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC) through coordination and leadership of technical product team

• Lead and maintain engineering change management, configuration management and engineering risk management activities

• Identify reusable product units, opportunities for synergy, convince all stakeholders, quantify benefit.

• Collaborate with hardware engineers, mechanical engineers, firmware engineers, software engineers, validation engineers and system/feature function engineers within Magna product development teams.

• Monitor and drive defect management to closure and lead the team in all disciplined root cause analysis efforts (both technical and systemic)

• Support customer presentations & act as the primary product interface to customers on technical topics

• Ensures engineering targets (quality, delivery timing, performance, product BOM Costs, etc.) for product deliverables are met on-time.

• Direct the efforts of the product team in the development and production release of engineering deliverables in compliance with product development process and customer expectations.

• Assess and plan ED activities and determines DV readiness

• Prioritizes engineering activities, deliverables & actions in order to achieve engineering timing

• Participates in continuous improvement efforts, researches, recommends and initiates implementation of enhancements to products, processes and programs.

• Provide support for RFI and RFQ meetings with customers, align responses and prepare and maintain communication responses.

• Ability to travel when necessary to product development locations.

Who we are looking for

• Able to work effectively in a global environment
• Able to represent technical topics internally and externally
• Able to travel (domestic and international) may be needed
• Able to be self-motivated, tenacious, and determined
• Able to work independently with little to no supervision

Your preferred qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering/ Computer Engineering / Systems Engineering / Electrical Engineering / Computer Science or equivalent.

What we offer

At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.

Site Benefits

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