Automotive Project Manager - New Product Launch

Join Our Team as a Project Manager at Johnson Electric!

Location: Zacatecas, Mexico (onsite)
Vacancy Type: Existing Position
Schedule: Full-Time
Travel: Frequent travel required
Relocation: Assistance available for qualified candidates

Please Note: This role requires strong English communication skills, including reading, writing, and speaking, as English is used regularly in business communications and collaboration with global teams. To ensure an efficient review process, please submit your resume/CV in English.

As our next Project Manager, you’ll lead internal and customer-facing projects for our automotive Powertrain Cooling business, from the RFQ phase through successful introduction into serial production. Your expertise in automotive project management, customer relations, cross-functional leadership, and risk management will be essential to achieving project milestones, improving business-unit profitability, and delivering successful product launches.

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

• Technological Leadership: Be part of a company driving technological advancements in automotive manufacturing.
• Professional Growth: Expand your project-management expertise through complex customer programs and global collaboration.
• Collaborative Culture: Work across Engineering, Quality, Operations, Commercial, and Supply Chain teams.
• Global Environment: Collaborate with customers, colleagues, and project teams across regions and cultures.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Manage customer projects from the RFQ phase through development, launch, and serial production while driving internal projects focused on improving business-unit profitability.
• Lead cost-reduction activities and execute Product Line VAVE plans in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Serve as the primary project contact for customers and cross-functional teams, maintaining clear communication across functions and regions.
• Develop and drive project timelines, scope, requirements, responsibilities, deliverables, and open actions to achieve internal and customer milestones.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Quality, Operations, Commercial, and Supply Chain teams to support successful project execution.
• Monitor project performance, timing, commercial commitments, technical requirements, and customer-specific requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Identify technical, commercial, operational, and supply-chain risks and coordinate mitigation, recovery, and escalation plans when required.
• Facilitate customer reviews, internal project reviews, and management updates while promoting collaboration and accountability across international and multicultural teams.

What We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Ideally 7–10 years of experience managing development and customer projects, preferably within the automotive industry.
• Experience managing projects from quotation or RFQ through product launch and serial production.
• Strong planning, organizational, analytical, risk-management, problem-solving, and project-execution skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively with customers, leadership teams, and cross-functional stakeholders in an international environment.
• Strong English communication skills, proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Project, and availability for frequent business travel.

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Experience managing automotive electrification, E-Systems, or powertrain-cooling projects.
• Experience with Value Analysis and Value Engineering methodologies, including cost-reduction or profitability-improvement initiatives.
• Knowledge of automotive product-development and launch processes.
• Experience managing complex supply-chain or component-procurement risks.
• Experience working with global customers and geographically distributed project teams; additional language skills are also beneficial.

How to Apply: Apply online at www.johnsonelectric.com. We can’t wait to meet you!

What We Offer

Johnson Electric offers talented people like you the opportunity to grow professionally and personally, surrounded by some of the most dedicated, innovative, and entrepreneurial colleagues you will find anywhere. We offer competitive pay and benefits, along with a culture driven by our values and designed to ensure that our most important asset, our people, can flourish.

This position offers a permanent, full-time employment opportunity within a truly international and multicultural work environment.

Johnson Electric welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates participating in any stage of the selection process.

Johnson Electric is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment and selection process. Applicants should advise Human Resources if they require accommodation during the recruitment process.

Please note: Johnson Electric may use Artificial Intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process.

Come join our global, inclusive & diverse team

Our purpose is to improve the quality of life of everyone we touch through our innovative motion systems. We are a truly global team bound together by our shared values. Our culture is built on the diversity, knowledge, skills, creativity, and talents that each employee brings to the company. Our people are our company’s most valuable asset. We are committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace where employees of different backgrounds feel valued and respected, regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity or religious background. We are committed to inspiring our employees to grow, act with ownership and find fulfilment and meaning in the work they do.