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About the Role
Are you an experienced Project Manager who enjoys leading cross-functional teams, managing customer expectations, and delivering successful projects?
Röchling Automotive is looking for a Project Manager to lead customer-order projects from project handover through Start of Production (SOP) and final project closure.
In this role, you will connect technical execution with business objectives, ensuring projects meet their approved targets for timing, cost, quality, technical performance, and profitability. You will work closely with customers, plant teams, functional leaders, and management to drive decisions, manage risks, and ensure successful production launches.
What You’ll Do
- Lead projects throughout the full project lifecycle, from handover to SOP and formal closure.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, resources, and deliverables.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams across Engineering, Quality, Purchasing, Tooling, Manufacturing, Operations, Commercial, and Logistics.
- Monitor project costs, development expenses, investments, customer revenue, and profit margins against approved targets.
- Serve as the primary project-related contact for customers and internal stakeholders.
- Track project risks, issues, open points, and changes, ensuring corrective actions are assigned and followed through.
- Evaluate the impact of project changes on timing, cost, quality, and technical performance, ensuring appropriate approvals are obtained before implementation.
- Lead project meetings and reviews, communicate progress, and drive timely decisions.
- Escalate risks and deviations to management before they affect project objectives.
- Ensure functional owners complete their assigned deliverables while maintaining accountability across the project team.
- Coordinate the handover to series production and support successful project closure.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Industrial, Manufacturing, or Automotive), Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field; equivalent professional experience will also be considered.
- More than 3 years of experience managing cross-functional customer projects, industrialization projects, or similar initiatives.
- Experience in the automotive industry or comparable high-volume manufacturing environment is preferred.
- Understanding of product and process development, tooling, equipment, quality planning, and production launches.
- Experience monitoring project costs, investments, revenue, profit margins, and financial performance.
- Knowledge of project planning, risk management, change management, and corrective action follow-up.
- Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams, align stakeholders, manage competing priorities, and drive accountability without direct authority over every team member.
- Excellent customer communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to identify potential risks, facilitate decisions, and escalate issues when necessary.
- Proficiency in Microsoft 365 and project planning, tracking, or ERP/reporting systems.
Why Join Röchling Automotive?
At Röchling Automotive, you’ll have the opportunity to lead impactful customer projects, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, and contribute directly to successful production launches and business performance.
We value professionals who take ownership, communicate proactively, solve problems, and turn complex project goals into measurable results.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field; equivalent professional experience may be considered.
- More than 3 years of experience managing cross-functional customer projects, industrialization projects, or similar initiatives.
- Experience in the automotive industry or a comparable high-volume manufacturing environment.
- Understanding of product and process development, tooling, equipment, quality planning, and production launches.
- Experience monitoring project costs, investments, revenue, profit margins, and financial performance.
- Knowledge of project planning, risk management, change management, and corrective action follow-up.
- Strong organizational, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams, align stakeholders, manage competing priorities, and drive accountability without direct authority.
- Excellent customer communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to identify risks, facilitate decisions, and escalate issues when necessary.
- Proficiency in Microsoft 365 and project planning, tracking, or ERP/reporting systems.
What We Do
Röchling Automotive manufactures plastic products for the automotive industry, focusing on improving mobility through solutions that enhance lightness, safety, and sustainability, including areas like Battery Solutions, Structural Lightweight, Aerodynamics, and Propulsion.
