Project Manager

NOVARES TURKEY OTOMOTİV A.Ş.

Novares is a global plastic solutions provider that designs, manufactures complex components & systems serving the future of the automotive industry.The company creates and produces cutting edge automotive solutions with technical plastic injection for cleaner, lighter, connected, cars with intelligent and intuitive interfaces for all passengers.

Novares co-develops and provides engineering and manufacturing expertise to virtually every OEM and many Tier-1 companies in the automotive market. Novares is present in 23 countries, runs 45 Manufacturing Plants, 8 Skill Centers, 9 Technical Centers and 24 Customer Service Centers, around the globe to partner with customers.

We are looking for a Project Manager for our R&D Team in our Gebze Technical Center who has the following qualifications;

·         University degree in engineering
·         Minimum 7 years of similar experience at automotive industry,
·         Fluency in both written and spoken in English, French is a plus
·         Be successful at team work, communication, self-motivation, problem solving, analytical thinking, planning and coordination,
·         Have strong PC skill to use MS Office Programs,
·         Preferably residing in (or nearby) Kocaeli and Istanbul Asia side,
·         No military obligations for male candidates.
·         No travel restriction

JOB DESCRIPTION

·         Update and distribute the project action plan in line with the frequency required by the project milestones
·         Organise and lead customer project reviews, and ensure that each meeting with the customer ends in an agreement on a common report including action plans, deadlines, and commercial developments
·         Ensure project reporting takes place in line with the group standards
·         Follow the correct planning of internal investment requests and contribute to their formulation
·         Lead and steer the project review, and ensure the action plan is correctly implemented to guarantee the deliverables in time, and alert the Department Heads and/or the Departments concerned in case of problems or delays
·         Capitalise on the experience of teams allowing improvement in our technical and commercial results, and ensure capitalisation in all business lines
·         Capitalise on customer knowledge, to adapt our plans to customer milestones
·         With the project team, anticipate the risks associated with the project (technical, economic, deadline-related, or quality-related), and obtain the support of services and departments if project execution does not go according to plan, and to reinforce the associated action plans
·         Ensure product/process pre-validation for new concepts
·         With their team, prepare the phase transitions and present them, with the associated action plans, to the Validation Committee
·         Manage the modifications requested by the customer or by an internal service, and propose technical- commercial changes, in order to improve project margins