Akkodis · 21 hours ago
Technical Program Manager - Automotive (Full Benefits Package)
Detroit Metro
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$0/yr - $150K/yr
5+ years expAkkodis is seeking a qualified Technical Program Manager for a full-time role on their dedicated team in the Detroit Metropolitan area. The role involves managing a large engineering team, overseeing project execution, and ensuring compliance with safety standards in the automotive domain.
Information Technology & Services
Responsibilities
Manage Project Scope, Timeline and Budget/Expenses
Obtain and align resources to key project roles; establish clearly defined responsibilities and accountabilities
Oversight/Manage/Lead project execution, integration, and implementation
Risk Management and Mitigation Planning; Experience working with ADAS Sensors (Radar, Camera, Ultrasonic, etc.)
Work in a highly leveraged, cross functional team
Working within a tightly revision-controlled environment (using a version control tool such as Subversion or git) an asset
Support budget development and resource planning for the department
Ensure team members have the tools for development, integration, and testing
Responsible for overall ADAS activities, meet vehicle proto and production timing
Responsible to meeting all feature, functionality, testing, and validation deliverables
Define and develop testing and validation scopes, HIL/SIL/Test Track
Ensure Functional Safety (ISO 26262), SOTIF, NCAP, other Regulatory safety standards are met
Develop and lead DFMEA activities work with other teams to implement results
Develop and lead DVP&R and work with validation teams on execution
Provide leadership regarding project prioritization, process validations, and continuous improvement activities
Use cases, Operational Scenarios, Corner cases
State Machines, Systems suppressions, and failure
Work with HMI, steering, brake engineers to ensure these sub-systems are working as per specifications
Data Collection, Data Analysis, Issues Tracking and Reporting
Provide recommendations and negotiate with suppliers in all areas of ADAS
Will Interact with technical partners, customers and suppliers as needed
Will peer-review their work within the team
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional experience across relevant Systems components. Including but not limited to sub-systems like ADAS, Battery Management Systems, Hydraulic, Braking, Bluetooth
At least 5 years as a test manager or direct project/program leadership experience for a large team to include experience on the End to End testing domain knowledge across any of the automotive domains (ADAS, cloud, etc) and Hil Tools (dSpace/NI). Anyone with ADAS or Chassis or Body or cloud domains must have at least 1 or the other HiL (system integration tools and simulations) tools as these tools act as enablers to test the feature level testing
Experience with solutioning technical problems and effectively communicating with the team ideas
Benefits
Subsidized medical/dental
Vision
Life insurance
Short-term disability
Additional voluntary benefits
EAP program
Commuter benefits
401K plan
Paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law
Holiday pay where applicable
Company
Akkodis
Akkodis provides digital engineering solutions for sustainable and innovative industries.
10001+ employees
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