Job Description

About the Role
As a Sr. Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for organizing and executing product development tasks. You will work in a cross-functional role planning, communicating, team building, and executing a development plan to Harman and customer requirements.
Your Team
You will work with a team of about three Technical Program Managers in China and one here in the US

What You Will Do

Manage 8 or more audio system (system or speaker) programs, requiring both applications and international development engineering. 

Define tasks to be performed by a cross-functional team in developing systems. Use a task list to create a work breakdown structure.  Use work breakdown structure to establish program schedule.

Follow corporate product development (or applications) process. Ensure the compliance of team members.

Ensure prompt decision-making is executed by promoting consensus decisions, intervening when consensus decision-making fails, and making unilateral decisions in the case of a deadlock.

Understand all of the technical detail of the products used in all systems, both electrical and mechanical.

Approve requirements and technical solutions for meeting requirements for all development products.

Establish and manage program budget. 

Work with Sales, Supplier Engineering, and Design Engineering to set system cost targets.  Meet system cost target.

Set team goals for the timeliness, customer issues, and quality. Lead team to meet goals.

Interact with all internal functions: design engineering, manufacturing, and quality, purchasing, marketing, and sales.

Negotiate resource allocations from functional managers. When a resource conflict occurs, negotiate a solution with functional managers and other program managers.

Serve as lead program interface with the customer.

Identify program issues as early as possible and drive resolution at the team level.  If resolutions require management intervention, escalate to appropriate management personnel with proposed alternatives.

Review selected suppliers and quotes, and participate in supplier reviews/selection as appropriate.

Coordinate and oversee the ordering of prototypes and production tooling.

Audit task completion and report major deviations from plan to appropriate management.

Recommend continuous improvements development process.

What You Need

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field and 16 years of overall experience

8+ years related experience in program management, sales, quality, design, engineering management, process engineering, or manufacturing engineering

Equivalent relevant industry experience will be considered

Project Planning, problem-solving, multi-tasking, project management skills

Background in Automotive Electronics and Audio systems preferred.

What is Nice to Have

PMP certification

Master’s Degree in Engineering or MBA with 12 years overall experience

What Makes You Eligible

Be willing to travel up to 10% domestic and international travel and occasionally travel to customer location and Harman Plants.

Be willing to work in an office in Novi, Michigan

Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment