Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
· Work with the Sales team to perform project assessment based upon available information, lessons learned from previous projects and meetings with relevant stakeholders to support the evaluation of the feasibility of new products or services within the given assumptions and/or constraints.
· Establish project deliverables; record detailed customer requirements, constraints, high level risks and assumptions with stakeholders to establish the project deliverables, using requirement-gathering techniques (e.g., historical data, brainstorming, organizational factors).
· Develop communication plan; identify key project team members by defining roles and responsibilities to create a project organization structure to develop the communication plan.
· Develop the varied key process element “plans” utilizing the Product Delivery Process (PDP) and traX, including but not limited to: Scope, Cost, Schedule, Human Resources, Communication, Procurement, Quality, Change Management, Safety and Risk. Focus on engagement and gain input from all functional swim lane leaders during this process.
· The above detailed plans will be defined and tracked in a project schedule with resources encompassing all areas required to complete the project. Concurrence of schedule content and commitments will be agreed upon to create the overall milestone dates. Baseline Milestone commitments will be created and gain Leadership approval, prior to proceeding.
· Conduct a kick-off meeting with all key stakeholders to announce the start of the project and review the overall project plan and gain consensus.
· Develop a stakeholder management plan to communicate overall project status throughout the life cycle.
· Ensure plans meet divisional and corporate safety standards, complying with all safety policies.
· Acquire and manage project resources to execute the project plan (mission based team assignments).
· Manage task execution as defined in the project plan in order to achieve the project goals.
· Implement the quality management plan to required quality standards.
· Implement the approved changes and corrective actions required by following the change management plan to meet or exceed project requirements.
· Following the risk management plan, implement approved actions to minimize risk and take advantage of opportunities to decrease overall cost (risk and or management reserve impact).
· Supports team building by generating mutual trust and encourages respect and cooperation among team members.
· Develop project team and improves team performance by building team cohesiveness, leading, mentoring, training, and motivating to facilitate cooperation, ensure project efficiency, and boost morale.
Monitoring & Controlling:
· Responsible for and management of overall project deliverables to Baseline Timing commitments, financial measures, performance measures and various Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s).
· Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques to keep the project plan accurate, updated, reflective of authorized project changes to facilitate customer acceptance.
· Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques to monitor the progress of the project, identify and quantify any variances, perform any required corrective actions, and communicate to all stakeholders.
· Capture, analyze and manage lessons learned to enable continuous improvement.
· Monitor procurement and manufacturing activities to verify compliance with project deliverables, focusing on “on time” execution to the quality standards and management plan.
· Clearly and professionally communicates project issues to the Leadership Team for escalation and resolution.
· Assure completion of all required launch process deliverables.
· Gain final acceptance from relevant stakeholders, confirming and assuring that project scope and deliverables were achieved.
· Conduct a comprehensive final lessons learned event and transfer this information to the Magna knowledge base for all teams to reference.
· Coordinate with Manufacturing team to train and transfer product to Plant control.
· Archive project documents and materials for future reference and audit.