About the Role:

We are seeking a high-potential project engineer with a passion for leadership to join us as a Project Manager. You will be tasked with leading advanced software and system-level projects from a management perspective. You will act as the vital link between technical engineering execution and business strategy, ensuring our projects meet the highest standards of quality, safety, and timing.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Leadership & Coordination:

• Lead Technical Workstreams: Drive advanced SW/System projects

• Cross-Functional Interface: Act as the primary bridge between System, Software, and System Validation teams to ensure technical alignment and transparency.

• Stakeholder Management: Interface with R&D, Finance, Sales, and Industrial teams to align project progress with broader organizational goals.

Planning & Governance

• Schedule Integrity: Maintain and audit project timelines across the portfolio. You will ensure milestones are met and proactively flag risks to the schedule.

• Change Management: Own the Change Register. You will drive discussions across the PM team to ensure all Change Request (CR) details are documented, analyzed for impact, and tracked to completion.

• Process Compliance: Support and manage workflows involving V-Model, ASPICE, Functional Safety (ISO 26262), and Cyber Security requirements.

Operational Excellence

• Methodology Implementation: Apply Agile, Scrum, or Waterfall frameworks (as appropriate) for resource allocation and task scheduling.

• Audit & Quality: Conduct internal audits on project documentation to ensure compliance with industry standards.

• Education

What You Should Have:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical, Embedded, or Computer Engineering.

• An interest in or pursuit of a PMP certification is highly beneficial.

• Engineering Foundation: Previous experience in software development, system architecture, or system validation.

• Systems Literacy: Understanding of infrastructure, hardware-software integration, and the complexities of embedded systems.

• Strategic Communication: A proven ability to translate complex technical bottlenecks into clear, actionable status updates for non-technical stakeholders.

• Influential Leadership: The ability to drive consensus and move teams forward without having direct hierarchical authority.

• Problem Solving: A diagnostic mindset capable of resolving both technical hurdles and operational inefficiencies.

• High-Level Visibility: You will contribute to project reviews that reach executive-level stakeholders.

• Deep Technical Exposure: Gain hands-on experience with ASPICE and Functional Safety standards that define the modern engineering industry.

Join us!

Thanks to its strategy focused on innovation, Valeo aims at reducing CO8 emissions and developing intuitive driving to propose greener, safer, and smarter mobility. The fantastic (r)evolution towards the vehicle of the future provides amazing career opportunities and challenging jobs!

Diversity by nature

At Valeo, innovation is driven by the diversity, authenticity and energy of its talents. You are looking for new technological and human adventures? Join Valeo and its more than 100.000 employees across the globe! More information about valeo : https://www.valeo.com

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Being part of our team, you will join:
- one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
- a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
- more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development

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