Technical degree with 3+ years in program management or related field.
Program Management Certification preferred.
Experience in risk management with 3+ years of assessing project risks and performance.
3+ years of experience analyzing financial statements and managing program budgets.
Expertise in automotive engineering design concepts with full-cycle project experience.
Experience launching products for Automotive OEM or Tier 1 suppliers.
Bilingual in Japanese and English is required.
Responsibilities
Oversee projects to ensure alignment with specifications, schedules, and budgets.
Lead the program team to achieve timely completion of project requirements.
Communicate program status and updates to team, management, and customers.
Maintain and manage the master program timing effectively.
Ensure compliance with internal program management systems.
Generate program budget approvals and track ongoing costs against them.
Delegate tasks and deliverables to program team members.
Benefits
International development platform for career growth.
Work within a dynamic and efficient team.
Opportunities for all-round personal improvement.
Personalized care and support for employees.
Diverse and engaging work atmosphere.
Modern office work environment.
Full Job Description
Program Manager oversees projects within a program to ensure that activities are carried out in accordance with established specifications, schedules, and budgets; leads program team and inter-departmental functions to achieve on-time completion of customer and Minth requirements; meets with program team members on a regular basis to review program status and plan future actions. Other duties include:
Identify customer and Minth 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 Minth 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 and Minth Americas policies
To qualify for this role you must meet the following:
A technical degree and a minimum of 3 years of work experience in program management or a related field
Program Management Certification preferred
Minimum 3 years of risk management by assessing project risks by reviewing master program timing, control timing as well as program performance, reliability, manufacturability and market competitiveness
Use of optimization modeling for status reviews
Minimum 3 years 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
Minimum 3 years experience with full-cycle automotive engineering design concepts: research, design requirement, feasibility, conceptualization, preliminary design, detailed design, design for manufacturability and production planning
MINTH Products experience preferred
Knowledge of customer procedures and expectations
Experience with the Launch of Automotive OEM or Tier 1 suppliers' products
Key to being successful in this role:
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 a must have
