Title: Program Manager - Engineering Product Development
Description:
In this role, you will be responsible for the overall operations aspects including value stream selection, planning, execution, and successful implementation of activities in the development and introduction of new products and released product management updates. You will ensure that the voice of operations is properly captured, and all team commitments and project contract metrics are met and communicated in a timely manner.
Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Strongly advocate for, and represent Operations to a cross functional team related to project and business needs
- Accountability and leadership for overall project execution. Including: project planning, budgeting, schedule creation, risk management, issue resolution, execution, and release strategy.
- Lead through influence in a matrixed, cross-cultural organization
- Lead all manufacturing and supply chain schedule risk burn down
- Define and meet operations objectives: Labor, Burden, Material, Cycle Time, Capacity, Yield, Process Ppk, etc.
- Drive operations program schedules, scope, materials, resources, expenditures, and funding
- Ensure the quality policy/system is planned, understood, implemented, and maintained - Ensure operations aspects of Quality System Compliance, Design History File, and Regulatory submissions are properly documented
- Coordinate development builds across value streams
- Lead decision making for facility locations, make-buy decisions, business continuity
- Ensure structured problem methods and predictive engineering principles are consistently and rigorously applied, such as DRM, Design for Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, or similar concepts.
- Provide tactical and / or operational leadership and coaching to operations team and extended operations team
- Provide indirect people management and development
Skill Required:
- Bachelors degree in Engineering or a related discipline
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant engineering experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant engineering experience
- Experience supervising or managing others!
- Program or project management experience leading a complex new product or new process development including launch operations costing (LBM, OPC, Inventory deferrals, capital project management, etc.) and financial accountability.
Nice to have:
-PMP Certification
- DRM Green Belt
- Experience in new product OR new process development including launch operations
- Experinece working in medical device or other regulated industry
Experience or extensive knowledge of at least 2 related disciplines (with knowledge of all) such as:
- Product development
- Manufacturing Engineering
- Supply chain planning/capacity planning for launch
- Technical expertise in qualifications (i.e., validation including IQ/OQ/PQ, CPAP, or related)
-Sourcing including component qualification -Quality engineering including new product
- Design for Manufacturability (DMR/DFSS or similar methodology)