Customer Engineering Product Director
Faurecia, auburn hills, mi, United States
Your Mission, Roles And Responsibilities
Our Clean Mobility Division is looking for a Customer Product Engineer Director based in Auburn Hills - MI.
The Customer Product Engineer Director is responsible for driving and ensuring that technical and design solutions meet or exceed the customer and FCM objectives/targets. Maintains smooth relationships with customers, ensuring projects, initiatives, and processes are in conformance with FCM policies and objectives. Responsible for all Customer Relationships and QCD of all programs.
- Manage Engineering relationship with all customers, ensure strong customer intimacy by being the high-level customer engineering contact with key individual(s) at the Customer
- Engineering Voice of Customer, ensure customer voice within FCM for product engineering
- Ensure all customer milestones are achieved on time and at customer expectations
- Responsible for all internal milestones on time and that align with QCD expectations
- Lead the customer-specific product strategy:
- Align with the overall customer strategy
- Ensure FCM quality design standards are aligned with customer quality standards
- Responsible to communicate global customer best practices to FCM regions, support development and implementation of global customer product standards
- Provide technical input to Division for:
- Lead program acquisitions
- Programs in development
- Changes in serial life
- Manage and coach Chief Engineer Product in daily activities and leading programs
- Support IP, Warranty, and VAVE activities
Your profile and competencies to succeed
- Strong leadership skills
- Effective and accurate communication skills with all levels of management and co-workers in spoken and written language
- High level of accuracy and precision to ensure high quality output
- Strong organization skills with sensitivity to time constraints and resource ability
- Ability to take action in solving problems with a realistic understanding of issues
- Ability to handle multiple tasks efficiently
- Safety, quality, production, and team oriented
- Problem solving techniques
- Global mindset able to manage individuals in different locations and cultures
Desirable Qualifications/knowledge
- MS Project
- Concurrent Engineering
- VA/VE
- Financial/Commercial
- Manufacturing Processes
- Customer Processes (i.e. FPDS, WERS, WWP, etc.)
- Engine Management Strategy
- Emissions
- Applied engineering