Project Manager (Cape Town) at GVW Group

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, Mechatronic or Electronic Engineering  
• Minimum 7-10 Years of experience in Automotive Engineering Development  
• 3 – 5 Years of experience in Project Management experience   
• Good understanding of automotive industry stakeholders, practices, and processes.  

Responsibilities

• Execute development projects from start to production flawlessly  
• Develop project plans, including detailed statements of work, cost estimations and work breakdown structures.  
• Interact, support and drive execution between all project stakeholders  
• Report project performance to senior management and or program manager      
• Execute development activities flawlessly   
• Ensure adherence to the relevant process  
• Asses overall project risk daily and provide decisions and directions to mitigate the risk. 
• Ensure accuracy of regular project management reports (resource loading, dates, task status, budgets, risks)
• Schedule and host internal and external design reviews
• Manage projects across company departments
• Develop and improve Project management processes  
• Identify, understand, and facilitate the resolution of technical, commercial or other program-related issues.  
• Execute development programs within budget   
• Develop and total cost for development project    
• Monitor cost vs quality and perforce and take corrective action where necessary.  
• Report on cost to senior management  
• Develop customizable products that are mass-produced
• Ensure project development supports manufacturing to scale 
• Manage project and task timelines to ensure that agreed milestones are reached and to communicate and plan for non-compliance on time.     
• Support and develop engineering talent development 
• Management of various electrical design resources throughout a project
• Interface with the Lead Engineers and Managers to help establish and prioritize the utilization of team resources.
• Delegate work to assigned resources.
• Direct and guide team members on related issues.
• Collaborate with internal and cross-functional managers and teams to support identifying critical resource needs. 
• Provide input to the Company performance review process.
• Provide input to the Company performance review process.
• Support hiring and onboarding processes  
• Support in identifying critical resource needs