Full Job Description
Program Manager - Seating Components and Sealing
Lead automotive seating component and sealing programs from engineering design through production launch. Coordinate cross-functional teams to meet customer and Minth requirements for specifications, quality, timing and budget.
Program Management • Minth North America, Inc.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Program Requirements - Define customer and Minth deliverables, specifications, quality standards and milestones. Communicate progress, risks and decisions to the program team, customers and management.
Timing and Risk - Own the master program schedule and track milestones, dependencies and corrective actions. Assess risks to performance, reliability, manufacturability and market competitiveness.
Gateway Reviews - Follow the Minth Program Management Gateway system. Chair regular reviews, use optimization modeling to assess program status, assign deliverables and follow up on actions.
Budget Ownership - Develop program budgets, obtain approval and track actual and forecast costs against margin, tooling, capital and development targets.
Customer Financial Issues - Escalate program financial issues to the Account Manager and support resolution with the customer.
Design and Launch - Represent Minth on customer product teams and support design activities, early builds and assembly plant launches.
Quality Planning - Ensure each program meets Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) requirements and follows applicable IATF 16949 requirements and Minth Americas policies.
Team Leadership - Lead project engineers and coordinate resources across functions to meet program commitments.
REQUIREMENTS
At least five years of experience in program management or a related field.
At least five years of experience assessing program risks using master schedules, timing controls and measures of performance, reliability, manufacturability and market competitiveness.
Experience using optimization modeling in program status reviews.
At least three years of experience analyzing financial statements and using regression models, as well as developing and controlling program budgets for margins, tooling, capital and development costs.
At least three years of full-cycle automotive engineering design experience, from research, requirements and feasibility through concept, preliminary and detailed design, design for manufacturability and production planning.
Strong experience in product development and program management for automotive seating components and sealing products.
Strong knowledge of aluminum melting, refining, degassing, casting, homogenization and related foundry processes.
Working knowledge of APQP, PPAP, FMEA, MSA, SPC and IATF 16949. Familiarity with customer procedures and expectations, and experience launching products for an automotive OEM or Tier 1 supplier.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS (A PLUS)
Program management certification.
Experience with Minth products.
MINIMUM EDUCATION / FIELD OF STUDY
Technical degree.
KEY TO BEING SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE
Communicate professionally with customers and colleagues at all levels and manage competing priorities.
Work proactively and independently while collaborating across departments.
Lead project engineers and allocate resources to meet program requirements.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT
Work includes coordination with engineering, manufacturing and customer teams in office and plant settings.
Ability and willingness to travel worldwide as required for customer meetings, build events and launches.
Ability to perform the essential functions of this position, with or without reasonable accommodation.
