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:
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.
Main duties:
- 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.
Requirements & competencies:
- 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; 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.
We offer:
- Performance and experience‑based competitive remuneration.
- Scottish Widows workplace pension.
- Commuting Allowance.
- Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme.
- 25 days paid holidays + public holidays.
- Private Healthcare.
- Department & company‑wide team building events.
- An exciting opportunity to lead the European transition to zero‑emissions transportation and decarbonisation of the economy.
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