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Project Manager

San Francisco, California, United States

QR's reputation for product data management and consultancy has put us at the vanguard of transforming the automotive, aerospace and robotics industries across the globe, as they seek to build better products and a more sustainable future. As a team, we are excited to be supporting the development of some truly planet-changing products, including connected, electric and solar vehicles and an increasingly diverse range of new technologies.

We have an opportunity to advance your career in project and people management and data analysis. Quick Release provides hands-on experience with complex, positive-impact projects, together with fast-paced training, mentoring, and a caring company culture that promotes flexibility, fulfilment and work-life balance.

What You'll Do

  • • Coordinate in engineering development, test, and validation schedules on a risk-based approach
    across all team activities..
    • Creating Purchase Requests & Purchase Orders for the team as needed.
    • Order & track component delivery to achieve testing requirements by creating parts list and
    sheets
    • Support logistic & shipping activities to ensure vehicles and components are delivered to test
    facilities on time.
    • Create meeting minutes for the team meeting and track progress on action items.
    • Track and maintain calibrations for all safety equipment.
    • Support teams with general Project Management requests.
    • Support the team with general Project Management requests through tools such as
    online sheets, Smart Sheets, Jira, and Confluence.
    • Track and oversee budget by planning for activities, tracking the cost for testing
    and the expenses.
    • Track design teams to ensure test timing alignment with component level testing and design to
    support team plans.
    • Lead maintenance of program schedules in coordination with cross-functional technical
    (program, design, development, integration, etc), manufacturing and commercial teams as
    necessary.
    • Manage test development plan together with team Project leads for the contract team to assist in scheduling of tests, vehicles, outside facilities, resources and other
    needs of the team.
    • Manage attribute health and associated budgets for each platform and represent the team’s
    interests in cross-functional meetings.
    • Serve as the point of contact between engineering and engineering program
    managers to align development plans with key program dates and milestones.

NOTE: Some days you'll be on-site and working hand-in-hand with clients and other QR team members. This is a hybrid role, so expect to commute around 3 days a week to a client site in or near Irvine, Troy, San Francisco Bay.

Requirements

  • • A degree preferred; technical degrees related also acceptable
    • 5+ years of experience in project management with an emphasis on automotive is a PLUS
    • Hands-on experience in vehicle systems or other vehicle related interests
    • Experience with full product cycles from prototype to production
    • Working knowledge of program management tools such as MS Project, JIRA, Confluence
    • Passion for sustainable energy and automotive preferred

QR_Values

Being the best at what we do is important to us (we’ve just been named amongst Forbes' leading management consultancies for the second time) but Quick Release has always been about more than project delivery. We can only be the best by looking after our team and we are very much a "people-first" business. We offer an environment of support, inclusion and encouragement, where our people can be authentic, be heard, enjoy their work and thrive. Team-building, learning, development and career progression are at the core of what we do, and we take great pride in our positive company culture.

We also take pride in our diversity, and we respect and value multiple approaches and points of view. We challenge inequality in all its forms, in others, and especially in ourselves. We’re not perfect, but we want to be better and do better, and we are fully committed to this in our actions as well as words.

As an equal opportunity employer, Quick Release will never discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, socio-economic background, marital status, or disability status.

Salary: $85-$110k

Connect With Quick Release Online_
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/quick-release
Glassdoor: https://bit.ly/GlassdoorQR

QR_Values

Being the best at what we do is important to us (we’ve just been named amongst Forbes' leading management consultancies for the second time) but Quick Release has always been about more than project delivery. We can only be the best by looking after our team and we are very much a "people-first" business. We offer an environment of support, inclusion and encouragement, where our people can be authentic, be heard, enjoy their work and thrive. Team-building, learning, development and career progression are at the core of what we do, and we take great pride in our positive company culture.

We also take pride in our diversity, and we respect and value multiple approaches and points of view. We challenge inequality in all its forms, in others, and especially in ourselves. We’re not perfect, but we want to be better and do better, and we are fully committed to this in our actions as well as words.

As an equal opportunity employer, Quick Release will never discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, socio-economic background, marital status, or disability status.

Connect With Quick Release Online_
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/quick-release
Glassdoor: https://bit.ly/GlassdoorQR

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