Principal Engineer, Project Management

HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.

A Career at HARMAN

As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

About the Role

This role is responsible for a program and lead the programs on time, at cost, and meeting all quality standards. As the Japan PM Group lead you will oversee the program, customer engineering and work with other program managers who maybe the lead. Additional global responsibilities will include the management across all SBUs, maintenance, and EOL forecast and redesign/customer changes if required.

Your Team

The position in Harman is directly report to Sr Director CPM and work closely with lead PMs on programs as assigned.

What You Will Do

• Manage customer interface and communication strategy to align program deliveries with Harman work efforts. Ensure assignments from S-OEM is well understood, distributed to required team members and program managers to ensure a reasonable plan for Harman success.
• Build and manage customer relationships with Harman Japan.
• Work with S-OEM relevant department and Harman CPM team to manage issues.
• Analyze and negotiate program schedules with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensure adherence to engineering best practices / processes and facilitate creation of new best practices as appropriate.
• Back up Harman colleagues in program management team as appropriate.
• Manage product risk proactively, identify engineering risks and coordinate meetings with the cross-functional team to address risks before they become issues.
• Ensure customer requirements are communicated throughout Harman engineering teams. Ensure customer requirements are met with the product design. Manage customer interface teams to clarify requirements when needed.

What You Need

• Bachelors in Engineering
• 5+ years experience in technical program management.
• Proficient in Japanese language.
• Proficient to communicate in English (spoken and written).
• Experience as Japanese carmakers or experience as a supplier to Japanese carmakers.
• Must have general knowledge of automotive engineering.
• Must be able to articulate vision and influence decision making outcomes with internal stakeholders, external suppliers, and the customer.
• Must have a "whatever-it-takes" attitude using diplomatic leadership skills within a collaborative teamwork environment to accomplish the necessary results.
• Proven and effective communication, analytical, judgment, initiative and execution skills.
• Willingness to help your colleagues.
• Team player don’t be sticking with low priority details, ability to accept different approaches, always being focused to complete priority task items.

What is Nice to Have

• Master’s degree or MBA preferred.
• Expertise in driving complex cost reduction projects and program deliverables.
• Business acumen.
• Analytical thinking.
• Drive for Results, Change Orientation, Customer Focus, Self-Awareness.
• Experience with managing distributed development teams is preferred.

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel up to 35%, domestic and international travel.
• Able to work late evening and early morning as necessary especially when working with global teams.
• This position requires the use of a HARMAN or customer-owned vehicle. As such, any offer of employment will be contingent upon having a clean driving record, which will be evaluated and determined in HARMAN’s sole discretion, no more than 4 active points for moving violations (issued by any motor vehicle agency), and no references to operating a vehicle under the influence of controlled substances within the last 10 years
• 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.

HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.