Our Tier-1 client, a leading supplier in the design & manufacturing of exterior structural components, is recruiting for a Program Manager.
NOTE:
- Must be willing and able to travel internationally, without restrictions, effective on the start date
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Oversee projects within a program to ensure that activities are carried out in accordance with established specifications, schedules, and budgets
- Lead program team and inter-departmental functions to achieve on-time completion of customer and company requirements; meets with program team members on a regular basis to review program status and plan future actions
- Identify customer and program deliverables, requirements, objectives, quality standards and timing requirements and communicate and update program status to the program team functions, our customer, and management
- Maintain and manage master program timing
- Ensure compliance with the Program Management Gateway system
- Generate and obtain program budget approval and track ongoing program costs
- Assure program budget conformance to margin, tooling, capital, and development costs
- Communicate program financial issues to the Account Manager for resolution with the customer
- Chair regularly scheduled program review meetings
- Delegate deliverables to the program team
- Support product design activities as defined by the program team; the customer as a product team member. Support early product build events and Assembly Plant product launches
- Assure APQP requirements are met on each program and adhere to established TS-16949 standards
REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS:
- Technical degree and a minimum of 5 years of work experience Program Management (Plastics/injection molding and chroming) or a related field
- Program Management Certification preferred
- Minimum 5-10 years of the below responsibilities in Program Management
- Risk management by assessing project risks by reviewing master program timing, control timing as well as program performance, reliability, manufacturability and market competitiveness
- Analyzing company financial statements and regression models as well as generating and controlling program budgets to ensure conformance to margins, tooling, capital and development costs
- full-cycle automotive engineering design concepts: research, design requirement, feasibility, conceptualization, preliminary design, detailed design, design for manufacturability and production planning
- Use of optimization modelling for status reviews
- Knowledge of customer procedures and expectations
- Experience with the Launch of Automotive OEM or Tier 1 suppliers' products
- Ability to communicate professionally with people at all levels of the organization; to successfully handle multiple priorities simultaneously
- A demonstrated ability to work well in a team environment, to be proactive, to work independently of day-to-day supervision
- Ability and willingness to travel worldwide without any restrictions
- Ability to lead a team of project engineers and manage resources to meet program requirements
- Bi-lingual: Nihonggo (Japanese) and English is preferred
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