.**Duties and Responsibilities**Essential Functions: - Primary point of communication interface to the customer for the respective program(s) within the unit as well as all the deliverables that are in the program they will manage. - Possesses the interpersonal skills to build relationships with key customer contacts responsible for the decision making process. Actively listens, probes and identifies concerns. Understands customer's business and speaks their language. Develops credibility, loyalty, trust and commitment. - Ability to manage customers and keep them candid throughout the relationship. - Preparation and communication of program status meetings to management steering committee and escalation of critical issues. - Coordinating / monitoring project documentation, timelines, technical performance, production, quality deliverables, and corrective action initiatives throughout product launch(s). - Manages tooling orders and samples for customers. - Participate in cross functional development teams within the company to develop and communicate program deliverables, priorities ,and timeline targets based on customer derived expectations and internal requirements. - Ability to understand, track, drill-down, and question activities and issues in all functional areas and make sound business decisions based upon that data. - Strong influence-management, negotiation, leadership and assertiveness skills. - Strong presentation skills. - Strong attention to detail and follow-through skills. - Plans and implements engineering program, including defining the project philosophy, activities, milestones, and staff requirements, per customer requirements. - Develops and maintains a schedule for the assigned engineering project. - Provides reports on the status of project milestones and adjusts schedules accordingly. - Controls expenditures within limitations of project budget. - Identifies project staffing requirements and coordinates staffing with supporting organization managers. - Coordinates preparation and delivery of project deliverables, design documents, and bid packages. - Assigns and oversee project personnel to specific phases or aspects of project such as technical studies, product design, preparation of specifications and technical plans, and product testing. - Reviews product design for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, customer contract requirements, and related specifications. - Coordinates activities concerned with technical developments, scheduling, and resolving engineering design and test problems. - Directs integration of technical activities and products. - Prepares interim and completion project reports for management, client, or others. - Interfaces with customers to provide project status reports and ensure customer needs are met. - Provides status and progress reports to customer, project team, and management.**Qualifications**Required Education & Experience: - Bachelor's Degree (B.A