As a Sr. Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for organizing and executing program development tasks for several programs and/or customers. You will work in a cross-functional role planning, communicating, team building, and executing a development plan to internal and external/customer requirements.
What You Will Do

• Manage several customer programs, requiring both applications and international development engineering.

• Define tasks to be performed by a cross-functional team in developing systems. Use a task list to create a work breakdown structure. Use work breakdown structure to establish a program schedule.

• Follow corporate product development (or applications) process. Ensure the compliance of team members.

• Ensure prompt decision-making is executed by promoting consensus decisions, intervening when consensus decision-making fails, and making unilateral decisions in the case of a deadlock.

• Understand all of the technical details of the products used in all systems, both electrical and mechanical.

• Approve requirements and technical solutions for meeting requirements for all development products.

• Establish and manage the program budget.

• Work with Sales, Supplier Engineering, and Design Engineering to set system cost targets. Meet system cost target.

• Set team goals for the timeliness, customer issues, and quality. Lead team to meet goals.

• Interact with all internal functions: design engineering, manufacturing, quality, purchasing, marketing, and sales.

• Negotiate resource allocations from functional managers. When a resource conflict occurs, negotiate a solution with functional managers and other program managers.

• Serve as lead program interface with the customer.

• Identify program issues as early as possible and drive resolution at the team level. If resolutions require management intervention, escalate to appropriate management personnel with proposed alternatives.

• Review selected suppliers and quotes, and participate in supplier reviews/selection as appropriate.

• Coordinate and oversee the ordering of prototypes and production tooling.

• Audit task completion and report major deviations from the plan to appropriate management.

• Recommend continuous improvements development process.

• Support the RFQ process.

What You Need

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field and 16 years of overall experience

• 8 years related experience in program management, sales, quality, design, engineering management, process engineering, or manufacturing engineering

• Equivalent relevant industry experience will be considered

• Project Planning, problem-solving, multi-tasking, and project management skills

• Background in Automotive Electronics and Audio systems preferred.

What is Nice to Have

• PMP certification

• Master's Degree in Engineering or MBA with 12 years overall experience

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel up to 10% domestic and international travel and occasionally travel to customer locations and Harman Plants.

• Be willing to work in the Novi, Michigan office

• Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment

What We Offer

• Access to employee discounts on world-class HARMAN/Samsung products (JBL, Harman Kardon, AKG, etc.)

• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages career development opportunities

• Flexible work schedule with a culture encouraging work-life integration and collaboration in a global environment

• On-site opportunities to focus on personal well-being and development such as on-site cafe, fitness center, weekly massage, fitness classes, and other onsite events promoted by our Employee resource groups

• Professional development opportunities through HARMAN University's business and leadership academies

• Internal talent management leadership acceleration programs

• "Be Brilliant" employee recognition and rewards program

• Scholarship programs for employee family members

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