Technical Project Manager for Comfort Actuator Product

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead the electronics hardware development of automotive comfort actuator products. The role blends technical leadership, people management, and end‑to‑end project execution to deliver hardware that meets quality, cost, timing, and performance targets.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the electronics hardware design team.
• Own hardware development from concept, schematic design, PCB development, prototype build, validation, and design release.
• Review circuit designs, component selection, design calculations, and PCB layouts.
• Guide development of analog, digital, power‑supply, motor‑driver, protection, sensing, and communication circuits.
• Plan hardware resources, activities, milestones, and deliverables.
• Track project timing, technical risks, quality, cost, and open issues.
• Drive hardware design reviews, DFMEA, DRBFM, root‑cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Coordinate hardware validation including electrical, thermal, EMC/EMI, transient, and environmental testing.
• Support engineering changes, cost optimisation, component obsolescence, and series‑production issues.
• Collaborate with PCB layout, mechanical, validation, manufacturing, quality, purchasing, suppliers, and customer hardware teams.
• Represent the hardware team in customer and project reviews.
• Ensure compliance with automotive hardware development processes and standards.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical, Electronics, Electronics & Communication, Mechatronics or a related discipline.
• 8–12 years of experience in automotive electronics hardware development.
• 2–3 years of experience leading hardware teams or managing technical projects.
• Strong hands‑on experience in automotive circuit design and hardware debugging.
• Experience with motor‑control, actuator electronics, or body electronics.
• Good knowledge of schematic design, PCB review, component selection, derating, thermal design and hardware validation.
• Familiarity with automotive EMC/EMI and electrical transient requirements.
• Knowledge of DFMEA, DRBFM, 8D and structured problem‑solving methods.

Required skills

• Automotive circuit design
• Hardware debugging
• Motor‑control
• Actuator electronics
• Schematic and PCB design
• Component selection and derating
• Thermal design
• Hardware validation
• EMC/EMI testing
• Electrical transient analysis
• DFMEA
• DRBFM
• 8D problem‑solving methodology