DescriptionJob Summary The Program Manager - New Product Introduction leads the planning, execution, and launch of new products, ensuring manufacturability, compliance, and timely delivery through cross-functional collaboration of customer designed products and parts. The role combines strategic innovation and technical acumen with operational accountability, and carries the expectation of meaningful, measurable impact on organizational performance to deliver on customer commitments. This position is a hands-on position with responsibility for ensuring customer requirements are understood, documented and preproduction activities deliver the intended output on time.
Key Responsibilities• Plan, lead, and execute multiple NPI projects simultaneously, managing schedules, budgets, and deliverables
• Work with the customer and Sales to ensure technical, regulatory, delivery and quality requirements and commitments are understood and able to be met
• Identify optimum location for new product introduction and support site with effort
• Serve as the liaison in partnerships with Manufacturing Engineering to enhance manufacturability of customer products and parts
• Collaborates and influences cross-functionally with Sales, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Production, Supply Chain to align goals and deliverables
• Lead PFMEA inputs, risk assessments, and mitigation plans; ensure compliance with regulatory and quality standards
• Ensures process flow, PFMEA, Control Plans, equipment, tooling, fixturing, gauges, documentation/instructions and training are in place to support production readiness
• Generate project plans, status reports, variance analysis, and corrective actions and metrics to enable continued communication of project status
• Continually improve the NPI gating process
Experience- 5-10+ years in manufacturing/project management, with NPI or product launch experience
- Proven leadership in cross-functional teams (including remote teams); experience in Aerospace & Defense industries.
- Manufacturing experience in a contract manufacturing environment; preferably in metal manufacturing.
- Experience with APQP, DFMEA, PFMEA, and validation processes
- Demonstrated leadership experience, including the management and delegation of appropriate tasks to technical and non-technical support team members while instilling motivation in the team
- Project Management experience when objectives were met or exceeded in quality and delivery
Education and Certifications- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Business, Supply Chain, or related field; MBA preferred
- PMP, CAPM, or other project management credentials preferred
Why Should You Choose Latitude Corp?- We are a rapidly growing employee-owned manufacturing company
- Growth Opportunities
- Training Available
- Weekly Pay
- Clean and Climate Controlled Work Environment
- Company Paid Life Insurance
- Company Paid Short-Term, and Long-Term Disability
- Work on products that support the US Military and National Defense
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan
- 401K Plan with 4% Company Match
