Project Manager

Main Purpose of Job: 
As the Project Manager, the candidate will thrive to:
1)  Proactively manage and lead the successful commercial and technical activities to make an
engineering project successful, ensuring adherence to budget, timing, and quality.
2) Lead and perform the delivery of tasks during the execution of the customer projects.
3) Learn new engineering concepts, equipment, software tools for successful delivery.
4) Create written reports/analysis (Excel/Word/Powerpoint) for project status and proposals.
5) Communicate with customers, with support from the supervisor and team.
6) Propose proactively in engineering projects towards expansion of the business.

Position in Organization/ Job Tile: 
(a) Report to Vice President Director
(b) Main place of work
- Novi, MI (main office); This is an in-office role
- Occasional business travels expected in the US

 Primarily local day-trips

 Overnight trips: 1-4 days per trip / 0-1 trips per month
- At external project sites in the US, during project period
 Primarily customer sites in MI (driving distance from the main office)
 It is possible that some longer-term projects may require temporary relocation to customer sites in other states (e.g. California)

(c) Working conditions
- Approximately 40 hours per week
- Office setting, must be able to sit and work on a computer for extended periods of time, ability to walk and stand, travel as needed.

Qualification/ Experience/ Skills/ Personal Qualities:
(a) 8+ years of professional engineering experience. Very strong foundational engineering skills.
a. Must Have:

• At least 3 years of Technical Project/Program Management experience.
• Testing Experience for mechatronic systems, (HILS bench Testing with test case programming experience is a plus).
• The ability to manage suppliers and timelines.
• The ability to work directly with customers as the primary contact point.
• The ability to think strategically and create proposals/solutions to address customer pain points.

b. Nice to Have:

• Mechanical/Electrical/Mechatronic Product Development Experience.
• Vehicle Level reliability/quality testing experience (Field Operation Testing)
• Previous Experience as an Application Engineer or Design & Release Engineer for the entire continuous V-cycle (Concept to SOP).
• Additional engineering experience in one or more: ADAS/AD, Battery/Electrification, Software Defined Vehicle (SDV), ASPICE, Cybersecurity, Functional Safety, CAN Signal Processing.
• Knowledge of Automotive integration efforts, processes, new technologies and trends in the Autonomous space.
• OEM and Tier1 experience

(b) Must be Bi-Lingual in English and Japanese (Native or Fluent (N1))
(c) Self-motivated, proactive, urgent, enthusiastic, ambitious, & passionately curious – does not require micro-level instructions and oversight to take action.
(d) Open to learn new engineering skills, commercial skills, tools, ideas etc.
(e) Advanced skills in MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, MS Word
(f) Open to working in multi-national team
(g) Creative mind-set to combine engineering and business (entrepreneurial)
(h) Willingness and desire to tap into personal networks and previous employers to acquire new business opportunities
(i) Professional Certifications:
a. PMP desired, but not required upon entry. PMP certification will be paid for and expected by client within the first 12 months of employment.

Education: 
(a) Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
a. Mechanical, Electrical, Software, Computer Science, Systems, etc.
(b) Master’s Degree and/or MBA (Nice to have)

Timing: 
Desired start in Feb 2026