Certifications Product Development Project Manager

Warwickshire  ‐ Onsite
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Project Manager - Certifications Product Development

Working in the Electrical Engineering Infotainment Core Commodities and responsible for the project management of multiple workstreams both in house and with external suppliers in order to secure compliance with technical standards and ultimately achieve technical body certifications required for the infotainment computing modules ("Head Units"). The successful candidate will operate as the primary interface to an external consultancy, working in conjunction with a variety feature owner engineers and suppliers.

Key Responsibilities
*Work with a nominated external consultancy and across the departments supply base to identify certification technical champions.
*Identify certification commercial and legal implications, and confirm partner ownership & target completion dates for achieving certification.
*Lead the project management for all certification activities, driving the certification delivery owners for plans & tracking to completion.
*Create and maintain an overall integrated timing plan for achieving certification, securing cross-partner support where needed. Drive certifications to completion through the responsible teams.
*Track activities that Feature Owners are responsible for in order to make their feature/component compliant.
*Responsible for driving continuous improvements within area of responsibility - quality improvements, process improvements, cost improvements, margin improvement.

Skills, experience and qualifications required
Required
*Previous experience in working in design/development in an engineering or regulatory compliance discipline
*Strong project management experience; ability to develop a plan, execute and keep on track.
*Previous experience of team leadership (internal, supplier or preferably both)
*Background in at least one of: technical body certifications (eg Bluetooth, Wifi, Apple MFI, HDCP, USB, DivX, etc), regulatory compliance, or homologation.
*Applicants must be educated to Degree level and must be highly motivated, able to work with minimal supervision and be able to build strong relationships and trust with teams members.

Desirable
*Engineering knowledge of Infotainment systems, multiplex bus systems, component design, function, performance, production and manufacturing requirements.

WA Consultants is an Employment Business and an Employment Agency as described within The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
12 months
From
WA Consultants
Published at
16.04.2013
Project ID:
521722
Contract type
Freelance
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