Highlights
Work Type: Hybrid Job Description: The PMO Product Development Process Specialist will support the development, implementation, governance, and continuous improvement of Client's Product Development Process (PDP). This role partners with cross-functional teams to drive process excellence, improve operational efficiency, and support execution across the product development lifecycle.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Newark, CA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $55 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions tour clients worldwide. Our client operates in the automotive industry and specializes in the design, development, and manufacturing of luxury electric vehicles, with a strong focus on innovation, performance, and sustainability.
Job Title: PMO Product Development Process Specialist (PLM Specialist 3)
Duration: 3 Months
Location: Newark, CA, 94560
Job Type: Temporary assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Duration: 3 Months
Location: Newark, CA, 94560
Job Type: Temporary assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Description:
- The PMO Product Development Process Specialist will support the development, implementation, governance, and continuous improvement of Client's Product Development Process (PDP).
- This role partners with cross-functional teams to drive process excellence, improve operational efficiency, and support execution across the product development lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support development and continuous improvement of the Product Development Process (PDP)
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Program Management teams
- Analyze workflows and identify process gaps, risks, and dependencies
- Develop process maps, governance documentation, KPIs, milestone definitions, and RACI matrices
- Facilitate cross-functional workshops and drive action items to completion
- Support end-to-end product lifecycle activities from concept through launch
- Recommend and implement process improvements to strengthen execution and organizational alignment
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Project/Program Management, or a related technical discipline
- 4-5+ years of experience in product development, engineering, manufacturing, operations, supply chain, quality, or program/project management
- Experience supporting New Product Development (NPD) and product lifecycle processes
- Strong analytical, process-mapping, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to translate complex stakeholder inputs into structured workflows and actionable plans
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Automotive or EV industry experience
- Product Development Process (PDP) experience
- Systems engineering or requirements management experience
- Manufacturing engineering, industrialization, or product launch experience
- APQP, PPAP, DFMEA, PFMEA, or change management experience
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, SharePoint, and advanced Excel
Top Skills:
- Program Management
- Product Development Process (PDP)
- Cross-functional Product Lifecycle Management
- Process Mapping and Governance
- Stakeholder Management and Executive Communication
Ideal Candidate:
- Self-starter who can work independently with minimal direction
- Highly organized with strong time management skills
- Comfortable facilitating meetings and presenting to stakeholders at all levels
- Strong collaborator with a continuous improvement mindset
- Detail-oriented and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.