Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. This Client is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Austin, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. Global company that specializes in manufacturing semiconductor devices used in computer processing. The company also produces flash memories, graphics processors, motherboard chip sets, and a variety of components used in consumer electronics goods.
Job Title: Sr. Technical Project Manager - Restraints
Duration: 3 Months
Location: Newark, CA
Job Type: Temporary assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Duration: 3 Months
Location: Newark, CA
Job Type: Temporary assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Shift Timings: 08:30 AM - 05:30 PM
Job Description:
- We are seeking an experienced Sr. Technical Project Manager to support our Restraints Engineering team.
- This individual will serve as the central coordinator and program quarterback for critical vehicle safety systems, including airbags, seatbelts, and restraint-related components.
- The ideal candidate will be highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of driving complex engineering programs forward through proactive planning, cross-functional coordination, risk management, and effective communication.
- This role requires someone who can translate technical concepts for diverse audiences, anticipate obstacles before they occur, and keep teams aligned on critical milestones and deliverables.
- This is a highly visible role supporting vehicle development, validation testing, supplier management, logistics coordination, and manufacturing readiness activities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage restraints suppliers and development timing to ensure program milestones and deliverables are achieved.
- Track Planning BOM maturity, engineering changes, tooling, piece costs, and overall program readiness.
- Support restraint system integration and validation testing activities.
- Develop test parts requirements and coordinate procurement, timing, and logistics.
- Ensure parts are manufactured, shipped, and delivered on schedule to support testing and development activities.
- Coordinate with procurement, supplier partners, seating teams, interior systems teams, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, timelines, dashboards, KPIs, and readiness metrics.
- Identify and mitigate risks, issues, dependencies, and logistical challenges before they impact program timing.
- Manage shipment tracking, material flow, warehousing activities, engineering logistics, and international shipments.
- Track action items, drive accountability, and ensure timely closure of open issues.
- Document lessons learned, process improvements, and best practices throughout the program lifecycle.
- Support Manufacturing Readiness Reviews and other program execution activities.
- Facilitate communication across multiple technical and non-technical stakeholder groups.
Required Qualifications:
- 4+ years of Project Management experience.
- 2+ years of automotive industry experience.
- Automotive restraints/safety systems experience is required and non-negotiable.
- Experience managing complex cross-functional engineering programs.
- Strong organizational, documentation, and project tracking skills.
- Experience identifying risks and implementing mitigation plans.
- Experience coordinating suppliers and managing deliverables to strict timelines.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
- Experience with Jira and Smartsheet.
Preferred Qualifications:
- PMP Certification.
- Experience in Lean manufacturing environments.
- Experience supporting vehicle development programs.
- Supplier management experience.
- Validation testing and engineering integration experience.
- Experience with dashboards, KPIs, and program status reporting.
- Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or related degree.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Newark, CA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $73.95 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Atlassian JIRAunmatched
- Automotive Industryunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Consumer Electronicsunmatched
- Consumer Goods and Servicesunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Delivery Managementunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Electrical Engineeringunmatched
- Engineering Bill of Materials (eBOM)unmatched
- Functional Programming Languagesunmatched
- GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)unmatched
- Integration Testingunmatched
- Lean Manufacturingunmatched
- Logisticsunmatched
- Machine Toolunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Materials Trackingunmatched
- Mechanical Engineeringunmatched
- Metricsunmatched
- Microprocessorunmatched
- Microsoft Officeunmatched
- Motherboardsunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Performance Metricsunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Project Management Professional (PMP)unmatched
- Project Planningunmatched
- Project Trackingunmatched
- Project/Program Coordinationunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
- Risk Analysisunmatched
- Risk Managementunmatched
- Safety Systemsunmatched
- Semiconductor Manufacturingunmatched
- Semiconductorsunmatched
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)unmatched
- Supply Chain Managementunmatched
- System Integration (SI)unmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Test Plan/Scheduleunmatched
- Test Requirementsunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Validation Testingunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Managementunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Selectionunmatched
- Warehousingunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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