30 Apr
Program Manager, Test Driving
Vacancy expired!
Job Description
Job Duration- This is an 18-to-20-week project, with the potential to extend longer or lead to other projects.
- Project is scheduled to start in mid-May – potential extension of project will be known at 50% completion level.
- Route Planning: Preparation of the recording drives in detail. Requirements for the recording journeys. Prove that the target has been achieved.
- Vehicle Logistics: Plan and execute the transport as required for all vehicles in the US and Canada.
- Data Acquisition: Driving of the vehicles according to the planned routes. Planning and coordination of the drivers including travel management. Assuring the correct handling of the vehicles and the built-in recording systems by the drivers.
- Data Carrier Logistics: Provision of the required SSDs including transport boxes and assuring a daily transport of the SSDs from the vehicles to a dedicated data center and backwards during the complete project.
- Organizing Permissions: All required permissions to operate the vehicles in the defined countries.
- Central Coordination: Serve as Point of Contact (POC) for the drivers, operating issues, and technical issues.
- Documentation: Development of all required documentation, guidelines, checklists needed to operate the vehicles, handling of the routes, and handling of the SSDs, including transport.Update the documentation according to actual requirements.
- Coordination:Point of Contact for core team and corporate leadership regarding daily issues, questions, etc.
- Manage all test driving activities for 5 vehicles and 10 test drivers.
- Manage daily briefing sessions with the driving crews.
- Manage upcoming activities and/or issues (technical, operating, logistics).
- Collect all receipts for travel, fuel, etc. and manage the accounting (including invoices).
- Manage and monitor actual local COVID19 restrictions and conduct immediate reporting to the core team.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree is preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in automotive Program Coordination. Experiencemanaging a Test Driving program is highly preferred.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, SharePoint, Teams) and common office productivity software.
Additional Information
- Will be required to travel domestically up to 20%.
Vacancy expired!