We are hiring and building a Design & Manufacturing of Advanced Demonstrators (DMAD) team in North America. DMAD supports innovation across all Group entities and regions. We act as a strategic enabler for both upstream research phases and downstream development and industrial activities. Our ambition is to deploy our unique model globally, bringing excellence in advanced prototyping to key regions, including North America. We are a high-impact execution team: Specifications makers, Full-stack engineering capabilities, Strong multidisciplinary expertise, Cross functional project management, Rapid prototyping & technical integration and Agile, decision-driven execution.
Key Activities:
- Lead the team by defining priorities to ensure that all expected results and deliverables are achieved.
- Ensure the quality and relevance of team deliverables in accordance with project milestones.
- Direct activities and processes to contribute to the performance objectives assigned to the department across QCDP dimensions (Quality, Cost, Delivery, Performance), including value optimization, mass reduction, and complexity reduction targets.
- Supervise outsourced deliverables by ensuring the robustness of input data, assessing deliverable quality, and driving continuous improvement plans.
- Anticipate staffing requirements (internal and external) in line with project and deliverable schedules.
- Manage workload and define internal or external resources required to support and execute programs. Manage external resources to ensure deliverables are achieved.
- When applicable, develop and maintain knowledge of key suppliers and establish operational plans for using their capabilities and expertise.
- Participate in structured problem-solving activities (Problem Resolution, DFSS) and maintain best practices through lessons learned across regions and global teams.
- Define and manage team standards and verify their application across all projects.
- Leverage competitive benchmarking activities in collaboration with the Global Technical Team when relevant.
- Ensure standards are developed in cooperation with methods and expert teams.
- Coach and support team members and ensure required competencies are developed through training and mentoring.
- Conduct individual performance reviews, regular one-to-one meetings, and competency assessments.
- Define and monitor individual training plans.
- Implement and lead safety initiatives aligned with team activities, including shop-floor safety walks.
Responsibilities:
- Managerial and operational responsibility for teams.
- Accountable for resources and results.
- Internal team composition: non-management and management employees.
- Typical team size: 5 to 10 employees plus contractors.
- Activity scope: primarily local/regional.
- Technical scope: programs, projects, serial-life activities, or engineering standards.
- Forward-looking strategic vision.
- Custodian of regional standards and reference frameworks.
Working Relationships:
- Reports to the Discipline Manager.
- Provides guidance and direction to team members.
- Shares strategic vision when requested by management.
- Cooperates with internal and external stakeholders.
- Contributes to strategy discussions with internal and external partners.
- Builds and manages relationships with external service providers.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
- Minimum 8 years of working experience in the Automotive Industry
- Experience in BIW transformation, vehicle architecture and synthesis and prototyping processes
- English: able to lead meetings in English
Key Skills & Qualifications:
- Proven leadership and cross-functional team coordination skills.
- Excellent problem-solving and technical decision-making abilities.
- Experience managing engineering risks, requirements, and validation activities.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Ability to work in fast-paced and evolving development environments.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering
- At least 8 years of experience in the automotive industry
- Experience in BIW transformation, vehicle architecture and synthesis, and prototyping processes
- Ability to lead meetings in English
- Leadership and cross-functional team coordination experience
- Strong problem-solving and technical decision-making abilities
- Experience managing engineering risks, requirements, and validation activities
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work in fast-paced and evolving development environments
Stellantis Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Stellantis and has not been reviewed or approved by Stellantis.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Contract-driven increases lifted hourly wages roughly 25% over 4.5 years and restored cost-of-living adjustments, pushing top rates near $42 per hour by the end of the agreement. Union hourly positions appear to have benefited most since the 2023 deal.
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Affordable Benefits — UAW-represented hourly workers pay no premiums and about 3% of total healthcare costs while receiving comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and wellness coverage. This creates materially lower out-of-pocket costs for represented hourly roles.
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Retirement Support — Post-2007 hourly hires receive a 10% employer 401(k) contribution and legacy workers saw defined-benefit improvements with retiree bonuses. Salaried roles also cite a 401(k) with employer match and contribution up to a maximum of 8%.
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What We Do
Our storied and iconic brands embody the passion of their visionary founders and today’s customers in their innovative products and services: they include Abarth, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler, Citroën, Dodge, DS Automobiles, Fiat, Jeep®, Lancia, Maserati, Opel, Peugeot, Ram, Vauxhall and mobility brands Free2move and Leasys. Powered by our diversity, we lead the way the world moves – aspiring to become the greatest sustainable mobility tech company, not the biggest, while creating added value for all stakeholders as well as the communities in which we operate.
