Associate Industrial Operations Engineer - PMO Technical Specialist

Job location: Southfield, MI

About the job you’re considering

The Technical Specialist supports the Vehicle Technical Manager in coordinating technical activities across vehicle development phases. This role ensures alignment between product and process, manages change implementation, and facilitates cross-functional collaboration to meet project milestones and quality standards.

Your role

In a vehicle project the Technical Specialist is operatively attached to the Vehicle Technical Manager. Duties and activites may include or be similar to the following:

• Coordinate, as a Vehicle Technical Manager deputy
• Vehicle composition (core structure, interchangeability…)
• Product/Process convergence (hard points in zone meetings…)
• Coordinate the creation and organization of Connections/Fasteners
• Organize Connections/Fasteners meeting to coordinate the technical core team’s activity and identify roadblocks
• As owner of the Connections/Fasteners dashboard, define with the Technical Manager the follow-up and final KPI (escalation to Project Manager)
• Prepare and coordinate the Change Management meeting
• Continuation of Change Management coordination, multi-site coordination by sharing with the dedicated sites the modifications requested
• Contribute to the quality convergence by synchronizing the part modifications with the project planning (batch of modifications).
• Coordinate the Product/Process convergence & reactivity (mainly for Welding, Painting and Assembly) as a Technical Manager deputy:
• Participation to modification batches organization on main topics, based on Change Management information (break points, part number change…)
• Support defects solving coordination for main defects on Painting, Welding and Assembly.
• Coordinate the vehicle rework during the project:
• On used cars, for vehicles produced from X2 with dedicated rework/upgrade workshops (performed by team in charge of all mass production cars)
• On new car, for vehicles produced from batch method (XS) till SOP with rework/ upgrade workshops (performed by production site)

Your skills and experience

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Business from an ABET accredited university
• Minimum of 1 years automotive industry experience at an OEM or large tier 1 in Product development engineering
• Strong critical thinking skills, detail oriented with good process awareness
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Advanced skill level in Excel and PowerPoint

Life at Capgemini

Capgemini supports all aspects of your well-being throughout the changing stages of your life and career. For eligible employees, we offer:

• Flexible work
• Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well-being programs
• Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation
• Social well-being benefits like subsidized back-up child/elder care and tutoring
• Mentoring, coaching and learning programs
• Employee Resource Groups
• Disaster Relief

About Capgemini Engineering

World leader in engineering and R&D services, Capgemini Engineering combines its broad industry knowledge and cutting-edge technologies in digital and software to support the convergence of the physical and digital worlds. Coupled with the capabilities of the rest of the Group, it helps clients to accelerate their journey towards Intelligent Indus