Position Summary:
The Program Manager is responsible for managing a cross-functional Program Team to ensure successful program execution and launch throughout product life cycle. Responsible for facilitating the Product Realization Process (PRP) and Engineering Change Processes (PCR/ECN) to ensure Customer Satisfaction, Production Readiness, and PPAP's on time. Act as the primary customer interface on all assigned programs.
Essential Job Functions include, but not limited to, the following:
- Define and manage the scope of the program on behalf of the company and its suppliers.
- Summarize and report status to teammates, suppliers, customers, and management.
- Initiate and manage programs throughout the product realization process, including engineering requests of all types.
- Utilize the open issues matrix which includes risk mitigation plan.
- Develop and manage the program budget and report updates to management as required.
- Develop and drive program timing with internal milestones, e.g., design reviews, tooling, PRP gate reviews, and external milestones.
- Manage multiple discipline engineering teams to meet internal and customer requirements such as TS16494, APQP, and AIAG.
- Support the Business Unit or Regional Strategic Plan, facilitating activity execution and communicating to stakeholders as required.
- Manage experimental process development activities as needed.
- Manage new tooling engineering requests and program launches throughout the product realization process.
- Present required phase-gate reviews to management.
- Participate in DVP&R, DFMEA, and PFMEA development meetings.
- Support APQP and VA/VE activities.
- Supervise Quality Engineers, along with other functional Engineers as requested.
- Conduct timely and meaningful performance evaluations for direct reports, and provide input into the performance evaluations of associates reporting under your indirect supervision.
- Assess current and future development needs for direct reports and take steps to mentor and develop them accordingly.
- Set the direction for team members and hold individuals accountable to performance standards and strategic objectives.
- Identify and train a back-up(s) to manage key tasks when absent.
- Additional functions not specifically outlined in this position description as directed by the leader.