Job Description
The Project Engineer will lead the manufacturing launch and integration of autonomous vehicle hardware in a high-volume production environment, coordinating cross-functional teams and suppliers to ensure quality, timelines, and operational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the manufacturing launch of new or revised autonomous vehicle products, including setting goals, training team members, and evaluating results.
- Monitor and enforce production timelines, quality standards, and output to ensure supplier facilities and deliverables meet Aurora's requirements.
- Coordinate with internal teams and external suppliers to ensure design intent is understood and operationally executed at scale.
- Communicate progress, make reports, and present findings related to manufacturing and supplier activities.
- Guide supplier-related projects concerning product policies and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Conduct multidisciplinary problem-solving activities and propose solutions for prototype and production manufacturing challenges.
Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 3 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience, or 12 years of prior relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
- Experience coordinating the manufacturing launch of new or revised products, including establishing goals, training team members, and evaluating results.
- Experience monitoring and enforcing timelines, quality, and output to ensure supplier facilities and deliverables meet Aurora's timelines, expectations, and requirements.
- Ability to communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing, including making progress reports and presenting findings.
- Experience guiding supplier-related projects related to products, policies, and continuous improvement.
- Experience conducting multidisciplinary rapid problem-solving activities and proposing solutions to prototype and production manufacturing challenges, such as Design for Manufacturing Assembly (DfMA), Design for Service, Repair, and Maintenance (DfS R M), and Design for Excellence (DfX) input.
- Experience interpreting technical requirements.
- Experience leading Root Cause Corrective Action (RCCA) activities.
- Experience with advanced CAD, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), and Manufacturing Execution System (MES) software suites.
- Ability to work on-site in Livonia Detroit Metro with occasional travel to Pittsburgh.
- Physical ability to perform job duties as required in a manufacturing environment (implied by the role, though not explicitly stated).
Benefits & Perks
Base salary range: 112,000-180,000 per year
Annual bonus
Equity compensation
Hybrid work environment with at least 3 days in the office per week
Benefits (unspecified, but includes health, safety, and inclusion policies)
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