ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Responsible for managing one or more sustaining product programs beyond factory introduction and ramp up of mass production.
- Applies program management and manufacturing expertise in resolving complex cross-functional problems and issues with cross functional teams.
- Provides input to process technology direction and establishes methodologies for achieving these goals.
- Develops and presents program status and review information to department/corporate groups resulting in influencing direction/decisions/outcomes.
- Facilitates the resolution of complex team issues, builds consensus, maintains process focus, and overcomes barriers.
- Ensures that program objectives and deliverables are accomplished in a timely fashion to meet product ramp requirements.
- Interacts with marketing, materials, quality and engineering to define program plans. May work with counterparts from other sites to support program deliverables after product/process transfers.
- May support marketing, sales and engineering to support customer requirements.
- Works with the engineering program manager to generate program plans i.e. Program/product overview, schedule, build and test (manufacturing and qualification) plans, resources and costs.
- Ensures tooling and test equipment capacity supports initial high volume manufacturing after program transfer.
- Defines pre-production demand to manufacturing site specifying BOM readiness and software revision requirements.
- Defines and implements business processes to optimize manufacturing, development, and/or qualification process.
- Acts as the overall Lead to the Sustaining Core Team.