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General information

Location:
Nagoya - Aichi, Japan - Chome
Job Family:
Engineering
Worker Type Reference:
Regular - Permanent
Pay Rate Type:
Salary
Career Level:
P4
Job ID:
R-37500-2024

Description & Requirements

About the Role

This position would independently lead local and Global project team for at least one customer. The position could be managing several projects simultaneously. The position performs a variety of tasks including, but not limited to coordinating all resources and stakeholders; setting deadlines; assigning responsibilities; and monitoring, summarizing, and communicating the progress of the project(s).

 

What You Will Do

  • Manage 1 telematics system program, requiring both applications and core development engineering.
  • Foster positive environment to create high-achieving team: treat all members with respect, encourage constructive dissent, re-focus team members when they get off-track, give positive feedback whenever it is appropriate, maintain a positive attitude, and reallocate resources in order to meet team commitments.
  • Define tasks to be performed by cross-functional team in developing systems. Use task list to create a work breakdown structure. Use work breakdown structure to establish program schedule. Establish program budget and manage program budget.
  • Ensure prompt decision-making executed by promoting consensus decisions, intervening when consensus decision-making fails, and making unilateral decisions in the case of a deadlock. Understand all the technical detail of the products used in all systems, both electrical and mechanical.
  • Lead team meetings by establishing an agenda, monitoring discussion to ensure adherence to agenda, tracking project open items and schedule weekly, promoting a free exchange of ideas, challenging the pre-conceptions of team-members, finishing the meeting in a timely fashion, and publishing meeting minutes.
  • Work with Customer, Sales, Supplier Engineering, and Design Engineering to manage system cost in target. Lead team meeting system cost target.
  • 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 sales.
  • 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.
  • Lead and work with globally engineer team to make sure the projects delivered on time, on quality and under budget.
  • Lead the project move forward from early concept stage, design frozen and pass all customer requirements, lead the project industrialization until SOP smoothly at HARMAN globally plants for customer.

What You Need

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent. Major preferably in engineering like Hardware, Software, and Mechanical related.
  • Minimum 5 years Project Management experience managing projects throughout product development lifecycle.
  • Auto electronic parts tech project management experience, SW management experience is preferred.
  • Minimum 5 years related experience in relevant product development disciplines (e.g. Engineering, Technical Management, Quality, Manufacturing, etc.)
  • PMP certification preferred.
  • JPN OEM customers experience highly preferred.
  • English communication skill is mandatory to manage global engineering team.

What is Nice to Have

  • Automotive experience is preferred.
  • Team management experience is preferred.
  • Oversea working experience is preferred.

What Makes You Eligible

  • Be willing to travel up to 10-20% domestic and international travel and occasionally travel to the customer location and HARMAN Plants.
  • Be willing to work in an office in Nagoya, Aichi.
  • Successfully complete a background investigation/Aptitude Test as a condition of employment.

What We Offer

  • We offer an authentic diverse, equal, and inclusive work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development in a truly global organization.
  • You will work on products and services that touch people’s lives and will change the industrial standards, being a part of the transformations in our industry.
  • Our work environments are fast paced, challenging, empowering, collaborative, flexible and exciting.
  • We offer our own HARMAN University with regular updates on the new technologies and trends by utilizing various sessions organized by Self Learning and Development Trainings to help grow and advance talent.
  • We offer competitive compensation/benefit programs and recognition programs.

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About HARMAN: Where Innovation Unleashes Next-Level Technology 
Ever since the 1920s, we’ve been amplifying the sense of sound. Today, that legacy endures, with integrated technology platforms that make the world smarter, safer, and more connected.  

 Across automotive, lifestyle, and digital transformation solutions, we create innovative technologies that turn ordinary moments into extraordinary experiences. Our renowned automotive and lifestyle solutions can be found everywhere, from the music we play in our cars and homes to venues that feature today’s most sought-after performers, while our digital transformation solutions serve humanity by addressing the world’s ever-evolving needs and demands. Marketing our award-winning portfolio under 16 iconic brands, such as JBL, Mark Levinson, and Revel, we set ourselves apart by exceeding the highest engineering and design standards for our customers, our partners and each other. 

 If you’re ready to innovate and do work that makes a lasting impact, join our talent community today!  

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