VAN LCM PLE Coordinator

About MBRDI

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India (MBRDI), headquartered in Bengaluru with a satellite office in Pune, is the largest R&D center for Mercedes-Benz Group AG outside of Germany. Its mission is to drive innovation and excellence in automotive engineering, digitalization, and sustainable mobility solutions.

Role: Project Coordination Engineer – Product Development

As a VAN LCM PLE Coordinator, you will support product development project execution through milestone, KPI, risk, change management, stakeholder coordination, reporting, and governance activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Track monthly KPIs and digital maturity status using agreed templates and reporting formats.
• Analyze weekly RFG reports and highlight risks, deviations, and improvement areas.
• Represent the department in gremiums, technical meetings, and cross-functional project discussions.
• Ensure part readiness for builds in line with project milestones and delivery timelines.
• Track change notices and change requests and follow up with affected stakeholders.
• Coordinate with logistics, product planning, suppliers, development, simulation, and other functions.
• Maintain documentation, tracking, and governance of project-related processes.
• Support stakeholder management and create processes based on project requirements.
• Communicate project progress, risks, escalations, and key updates to project coordinators and management.
• Conduct project Reko meetings and facilitate decisions on engineering changes.
• Support product tag-related activities and obtain countermeasures for mishaps, deviations, and project risks.

Required Skills and Experience

• Understanding of automotive product development and project coordination processes.
• Experience tracking project milestones, KPIs, risks, change notices, and deliverables.
• Knowledge of engineering change management and decision-making processes.
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and manage stakeholders.
• Strong documentation, reporting, analytical, communication, and process-tracking skills.
• Ability to identify risks, deviations, and countermeasures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, B.E. / B.Tech.
• Experience in automotive product development, project management, or engineering coordination is preferred.
• Exposure to vehicle development milestones, build readiness, engineering change processes, global stakeholders, suppliers, and project governance is advantageous.

Benefits

Benefits may include employee discounts, health benefits, mobile phone support, meal discounts, retirement benefits, hybrid work, mobility offers, events, coaching, flextime, near-site childcare, parking, canteen and café facilities, public transport, a barrier-free workplace, and an in-house doctor.

Equal Opportunity

MBRDI welcomes applications from all qualified individuals and is committed to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace.