The Program Manager will provide leadership and direction to the core teams and the staff of all support groups in setting and achieving project objectives. Will take a leading role and be the focal point for product development and launch for both the customer and plant manufacturing on new programs. Responsible for budgets, tracks and controls all project costs in real time, ensuring that all chargeable costs are assigned to the customer and obtaining management approval for all cost overruns.
The Program Manager will utilize a cross-functional team assigned from other disciplines (Electrical Design, Mechanical Design, Software Design, Quality Design, Advance Manufacturing, etc.) to develop projects for production, using Program Management techniques according to the Product Development Plan.
The Program Manager will achieve operational objectives by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; implementing change.
Responsibilities:
- Manages multiple OEM projects from award through launch and beyond
- Provide technical and project leadership in directing a cross-functional and multidisciplinary team from concept to launch
- Understands and utilizes the Product Development Life Cycle for Project Management
- Conducts Project Gate Reviews in a timely manner according to the Development Plan
- Ensures that all project deliverables and requirements are met
- Effectively communicate project status and proactively manages risk
- Acts as primary interface to customer for all project issues
- Maintain project costs within the baseline budgets for BOM, tooling, and investment
- Operate and manage project within and according to a predefined project budget
- Develop and maintain a project timing charts depicting ability to meet customer’s milestones
- Establish countermeasures when the project deliverables are at risk
- Coordinates all corporate wide resources required to effectively manage product launches and changes
- Initiate the review of lessons learned/best practices of other programs and document new ones from each project
- Provide engineering support to the corporation utilizing the product development process
- Design reviews with Customers and obtain Customer approval
- Responsible for all engineering aspects of one or more major product or program which includes meeting project costs, quality and customer expectations
- Provide direction to the department Designers and CAD operators
- Support sales and marketing needs within the noted area (Sales presentations, RFI/RFQ, product costs and quotes)
- Design reviews with Customers and obtain Customer approval
- Obtain quotes from Vendors (Tooling, design, equipment, etc.) and release tooling to Vendors
- Track all tooling and equipment (Tooling Progress Report) and submit all Customer Documentation as required
- Support operations and manufacturing needs within the noted area (New equipment and processes)
- Create Documentation per Design Plan
- Ensure all required specifications are complete and comprehensive
- Support the development and management of System Requirements
- Identify and escalate scope creep within the project
- Obtain Documentation from Customer as required per Design Plan
- Communicate all Engineering Changes and impact to project
- Ability to work with global teams
- Travel to customer locations when required
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related discipline, or related work experience
- Minimum of 5 years of PM experience with a Tier 1 Automotive Company
- Proficient with MS Office applications
- APQP and Product Development experience – from Initial Concept to Production
- DV/PV testing and PPAP experience
- Experience directing cross-functional teams
- PM Training a plus (PMP, etc.)
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $85,000.00 - $110,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Relocation assistance
- Vision insurance
Experience level:
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Education:
Experience:
- Program Management with a Tier 1 auto company: 5 years (Required)
- Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP): 3 years (Required)
- Production Part Approval Process (PPAP): 3 years (Required)
- Design Verification / Product Validation (DV/PV): 3 years (Required)
- directing cross-functional teams: 5 years (Required)
License/Certification:
Work Location: In person