Program Manager

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Execute the NPI process through all stage gates and meet overall schedule.

• Operate with a deep sense of ownership and urgency at every stage of the new product development process.
• Support Company roadmap development by providing resource availability and estimated project hours required based on MRS specification.

• Develop and maintain project plans using the project work breakdown structure, work scope definitions, schedules, resource requirements, expenditure schedules, and NPI process.
• Provide leadership to cross-functional teams of design engineering, supply chain, manufacturing engineering, lean engineering, sales and third-party partners in executing new product introduction projects, and customer fulfillment projects.
• Effectively mitigate project risks and create opportunities for project execution enhancements.
• Coordinate the resolution of issues between business functions to drive overall project process.
• Ensure material is available to support all development builds.

• Comply with all Company policies, rules, guidelines and behavior expectations.
• Perform other duties as requested by the Company.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Advanced communication, facilitation and project management skills.
• High emotional intelligence.
• Deep knowledge of program management approaches, tools and methodologies.
• Experience with utilizing Root Cause Analysis tools such as 5 Whys, Fishbone, Cause and Effect
• Facilitate cross-functional project team gate and launch assessments and utilize root cause analysis tools to determine lessons learned and lay out counter measures for future projects.
• Advanced skills in PC based documentation tools including MS Project and MS Office.
• Demonstrated working knowledge/experience within technical engineering design/manufacturing business units.
• Proven history of effective multi-tasking on parallel development efforts.
• Ethical leader who inspires trust and confidence throughout the organization.