Position Summary
Lead the project execution governance system across the Clarios Customer & Technology organization, covering CTO, Core Business and Energy Systems. Provide leadership with a reliable, evidence-based view of project health, risk and recovery; establish consistent standards; verify execution information; identify cross-project constraints; and drive timely escalation and management action. The role does not own day-to-day project execution, technical decisions or project-management tool support.
Key Responsibilities
· Own and continuously improve the Customer & Technology project execution governance framework, including lifecycle, roles, decision rights, review cadence, minimum artifacts and objective Green / Yellow / Red criteria.
· Define the execution information, update frequency, evidence and authorized sources required from Project Managers across CTO, Core Business and Energy Systems.
· Verify the timeliness, completeness, consistency and traceability of plans, milestones, risks, issues, forecasts, recovery actions and engineering hours.
· Provide an independent assessment of project health across schedule, cost/hours, resources, technical maturity, validation, quality, customer commitments and risk exposure.
· Lead the monthly Customer & Technology project execution review and weekly exception reporting for critical projects, clearly identifying exposure, changes, recovery confidence and decisions required.
· Establish escalation thresholds and ensure critical risks, overdue decisions, resource conflicts, and customer or launch exposure reach the appropriate leadership forum.
· Require and challenge recovery plans for Yellow/Red projects; facilitate health checks, deep dives and gate-readiness reviews for high-exposure projects.
· Identify systemic risks and shared constraints across the three organizations, including scarce competencies, validation capacity, laboratory availability, supplier dependencies and architecture dependencies.
· Build Project Management excellence through practical standards, playbooks, templates, coaching, startup reviews and lessons learned.
· Align governance with applicable automotive and engineering practices, including APQP, IATF 16949, ASPICE, ISO 26262, ISO/SAE 21434 and customer-specific requirements.
Recurring Outputs
· Customer & Technology project execution dashboard and executive decision brief.
· Project information quality and update-compliance report.
· Top risks, issues, dependencies and shared-constraint view across CTO, Core Business and Energy Systems.
· Yellow/Red project and recovery-plan tracker.
· Engineering hours versus plan/forecast exception view.
· Executive action, decision and escalation log.
Authority and Accountability
· Set minimum project-governance, information, evidence and reporting standards across Customer & Technology.
· Request correction of incomplete, outdated or inconsistent information and additional supporting evidence.
· Convene project health checks, recovery reviews and deep dives.
· Issue an independent PMO assessment when evidence does not support the status reported by the Project Manager.
· Escalate critical exposure and overdue decisions according to agreed thresholds.
Accountability boundary: Project Managers remain accountable for planning and execution; functions own technical deliverables and resources; Customer & Technology leadership owns priorities, investments, trade-offs and interventions.
Candidate Profile
Experience and Education
· Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Operations or a related discipline; master’s degree preferred.
· 10–15 years of experience in product development, engineering, program management or project management, including at least 5 years leading a PMO, complex programs or project controls.
· Demonstrated experience within an automotive supplier, vehicle manufacturer, or engineering organization involving hardware, software, systems and validation.
· Proven success establishing…