Job Description
| Title: | Project Manager |
| Location: | Foster City CA |
| Duration: | 12 Month |
| Pay Range | C$80.00/hr. – C$85.00/hr. on W2 all Inclusive. |
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Manage vehicle hardware projects and deliverables through the full product life cycle, from
- concept and development through validation, production ramp, and end of life.
- Own project planning and execution: build and maintain schedules, track milestones,
- deliverables, dependencies, and risks, and drive mitigation plans to closure.
- Lead change management activities for hardware systems: assess impact, coordinate
- cross-functional reviews, and drive engineering changes (ECR/ECO) through approval and
- implementation.
- Plan and facilitate program meetings, milestone checkpoints, and readiness assessments; drive
- decisions, capture action items, and follow through to closure.
- Serve as a central point of contact between engineering, operations, and program stakeholders,
- streamlining communication, surfacing escalations, and creating visibility across programs.
- Maintain program and change data integrity across Jira, Confluence, and PLM/change
- management tools, ensuring content meets expectations ahead of reviews and milestones.
- Provide leadership with clear program status through reports, metrics, and dashboards.
- Identify gaps, inefficiencies, or blockers in current processes and develop solutions or workflows
- to address them, collaborating with Program Managers to optimize team cadence, structure, and
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Automotive, or a related engineering discipline) or equivalent engineering formation and background.
- 3+ years of project or program management experience with direct, hands-on experience in automotive hardware or hardware systems development.
- Demonstrated experience managing products through the hardware life cycle (concept, design, validation, production, end of life) and applying structured change management (ECR/ECO processes, PLM systems).
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive follow-through in a fast-paced engineering environment.
- Highly organized with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency in productivity and collaboration tools such as Google Workspace, Jira, Confluence, and Slack; experience with PLM/change management systems is a strong plus.
- Comfortable working with ambiguity and proactively seeking structure where needed.
- Detail-oriented with a strong bias for action and ownership.
- Familiarity with vehicle development milestones (prototype builds, DV/PV, SOP), hardware/software integration, and issue resolution is a strong plus.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Foster City, CA |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $80–$85 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 2,000 to 2,499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2000 |
| Website | http://www.lancesoft.com/ |
About Company
We are a $125 Million, NMSDC-certified Minority & Woman owned Workforce Solutions Company headquartered in the DC metro area with presence across US with global presence - Canada, Mexico, India, UK, Malaysia, Indonasia, Hongkong, Singapore, UAE. We are specialized in providing Workforce Solutions, SOW project delivery, Engineering Solutions, Creative Services. We currently support 100+ Fortune companies globally and across multiple industry segments. We are currently supporting several massive programs across industry segment nationally/globally (Intel, Ally, AMD, QUALCOMM, Morgan Stanley, Kraft/ Mondelez, MNP, Amdocs, Dell, SanDisk, Medtronic, Becton Dickinson, GE, Lockheed Martin, UTC, L-3 Communications, Caterpillar, BMW, Mercedes Benz, National Grid, Dominion, Energy Future Holdings, PSEG, 3M, Fidelity, Aetna, Humana, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck etc).
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
Skills
- Atlassian JIRAunmatched
- Automotive Engineeringunmatched
- Cadenceunmatched
- Change Managementunmatched
- Change Order Managementunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Data Qualityunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Electricityunmatched
- Follow Throughunmatched
- Hardware Developmentunmatched
- Hardware-Software Integrationunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Metricsunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Product Lifecycleunmatched
- Product Lifecycle Managementunmatched
- Product Managementunmatched
- Project Executionunmatched
- Project Planningunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Prototypingunmatched
- Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
- Risk Managementunmatched
- Slackunmatched
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)unmatched
- Status Reportsunmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- Systems Analysisunmatched
- Team Lead/Managerunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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