Connected Car Project Manager
Nissan
- Cranfield, Bedfordshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Project manager responsible for co-ordinating cross carline projects for both on board and off board connected car and infotainment teams.
- Collaboration with connected car design and test teams to define and maintain project development scope, schedule and test plans.
- Manage and maintain cross carline development planner and ensure project engineers maintain development schedules and meet quality targets through all gateways.
- Manage IT development for connected car services.
- Resource management for effective deployment and allocation of resources when and where they are needed (Vehicles / Test parts / Technicians).
- Effective information management by acquisition of information from one or many sources and distribution to convey the status of the project.
- Preparation of reports for management to review analyse and approve.
- Be the departments interface with upstream and downstream functions including: Product Planning and Program Management.
- Management of Telematics Service Providers, ensuring their development schedules are aligned to Nissan milestones.
- To understand and operate within the Health and Safety rules defined by Nissan Europe.
- Be degree qualified (or equivalent) in a relevant engineering discipline.
- Have relevant experience in automotive development relating to Connected Car, Infotainment systems, HMI or a related function. Or be able to demonstrate equivalent experience on a major development program, e.g. in aerospace, telecoms or similar.
- Be able to understand and risk assess hardware and software development plans.
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise and multitask between multiple projects simultaneously.
- Having PMP or Prince2 qualification is a plus.
- Have good written and verbal communication skills.
- Competent with PC applications including Microsoft excel and Microsoft project.
- Be self-motivating, self-managing, pro-active and positive. Have an energetic personality and be flexible regarding working practice and working hours.
- Be able to travel abroad, typically a few days to 2 weeks, but on rare occasions travel may be longer and/or at short notice.
- Valid UK/European driving licence is MUST