Technical Project Leader (Automotive)

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As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Summary: 

• The Project Leader1(PL1) has technical responsibility of IQP 3 to 5 projects with an estimated engineering count of up to 30 FTEs. 
• The responsibilities of a PL1 are to manage the technical project activities in accordance to agreed deliverable time and quality as well as ensuring compliance with customer requirements.
• Additional responsible are to qualify the internal staffing of projects, develop and adhere to project timeline.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty in accordance to defined standards.
• Other duties or tasks may be assigned as required.
• The essential duties and responsibilities are as followed:

Customer

• Support client meetings and mainly onsite presence at CTC needed
• Monitors delivery progress with the customer

Project Management/Work

• Technical/Engineering work in the project
• Give technical direction within project
• Mentoring team members
• Monitor delivery progress on projects
• Manage technical scope of the projects
• Responsible of the quality of the deliverables
• Support definition of roles and responsibilities in the project organization​
• Monitor the technical skills of the team members
• Support validation of the project organization and the team members
• Support improving project processes
• Report if technical/project training is needed in projects

Supervisory Needs and Responsibilities:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform according to the level(s) of supervision listed below.

Managerial supervision

• An individual will be responsible for supervising and managing a team.
• An individual is expected to provide guidance, assign tasks, set goals, and evaluate the performance of their team members.

Directorial supervision

• An individual will work closely with executive leadership to align department's goals with the overall organizational strategy and report on department's performance.
• May provide guidance and mentorship and support their team members in acquiring new skills and knowledge.

Minimum Qualifications and Skills:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual should be able to meet each requirement satisfactorily.
• The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from a technical college or university in Engineering or another technical/scientific discipline and combined minimum 5 years of engineering and project management experience (minimum 4 years of engineering/product development experience, minimum 1 years of project lead/management experience in a technical field).
• An advanced degree may be substituted for experience.
• Significant experience in systems engineering, requirement engineering, or software development.
• Automotive experience is essential

Preferred Qualifications and Skill's:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual should be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability preferred.

 Language Ability:

• Ability to read, write, speak, analyze and interpret all forms of communication and business correspondence, primarily in English.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Reasoning Ability: