Project Management Engineer - Commercial Vehicle (Chinese Speaking preferred)

About the role:

Project Management Engineer is the essential link between Customer, Sales, R\&D, Factory, external partners, and other related departments in the whole project phase from order to delivery. Project Management Engineer manages multiple stakeholders and projects simultaneously, collaborating with intercontinental cross\-functional teams and B2B customers. At BYD, Project and program management team consists of a team in Shenzhen and in Europe and UK.

Work location: Reading, London

Reports to: Sales Project Manager

Key responsibilities:

• Manage the entire lifecycle of new orders, from initiation and production to delivery.


• Collect and organize milestone events, key project phases, and deliverables throughout the project lifecycle, oversee the delivery follow\-up of vehicles to overseas terminals.


• Communicate with overseas market customers, support sales efforts to expand the market, and participate in market demand research.


• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for project execution, lead meetings and provide clear communication to stakeholders at all levels.


• Ensure resource availability and allocation, support and arrange the bus PDI (pre\-delivery inspection) task.


• Perform risk management to minimize project risks.


• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.


• Any reasonable duties assigned by Managers.

• Develop a trusted, collaborative partnership with customers and PDI workshops.


• Transfer in efficient way all the requests from customers to BYD organization.


• Plan delivery key activities involving all the relevant stakeholders internal and external (customer, PDI workshop, on\-board system suppliers, etc.).


• Be able to understand technical problems and solutions to be implemented to smooth communication between BYD and external stakeholders.


• Project status reporting: open points tracking and risk analysis during the entire product development phase.


• Work under time constraints to meet specific timelines and in a high pace environment.


• High level of proactivity is mandatory; be able to anticipate the project risks and activities.


• Work independently organizing visits on site to strengthen customer relationships, pre\-inspection in production sites and to supervise PDIs activities in the region

• Minimum Bachelor Degree, technical background is preferred.


• Proven track record in the transport or automotive industry; 5\-year experience is a must.


• Experience in cross\-cultural management, client management and conflict management, strong sense of responsibility and ownership.


• Proactive and collaborative approach to problem solving.


• Strong leadership skills and creative thinking.


• Excellent time management and organizational skills, ability to work under pressure.


• Good command of English and English is essential, both written and verbal.


• Able to speak, read and write in Chinese (Mandarin) is an advantage.


• Computer knowledge and proficiency, including MS Office and MS Project.


• Able to travel on a regular basis to customers in Germany, and occasional travel to BYD offices in EU, BYD Hungary factory and China.

• Performance and experience\-based competitive remuneration


• Scottish Widows workplace pension


• Commuting Allowance


• Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme


• 25 days paid holidays \+ public holidays


• Private Health care


• Department \& company\-wide team building events.


• An exciting opportunity to lead the European transition to zero\-emissions transportation and decarbonization of the economy.

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