Role Overview As GTI scales production and expands our product portfolio, the alignment between sales, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing teams, daily operations, and our customers is critical to our long-term success. To support our rapid growth, we are looking for a Senior Program Manager who will be responsible for communicating daily with the customer on updates, as well as maintaining & overseeing project timeliness, budgetary constraints, and additional specifications. Have ownership over a sole, or multiple programs, driving accountability across departments for the overall success of the program.
Job Responsibilities:
- Own the entire book to bill process for a specific customers order. Holding all departments accountable for deliverables
- Track and Report Progress of Cross functional team executing each customer order
- Drive communication and collaboration to successfully launch and maintain production
- Manage the phase gate release process for each new product in a customer's portfolio
- Communicate requirements, changes, new orders and forecasts from customers to the internal team
- Complete manufacturing projects by organizing and controlling project elements.
- Work directly with other project/program managers, and the production team on factory floor to create build plans.
- Work with engineering team to develop designs based on customers' specifications, drawings, and/or high-level requirements.
- Collaborate with production control to develop easy to interpret build plans for factory floor based on overall design.
- Develop project objectives by reviewing proposals and plans and conferring with management.
- Interface with customers' technical teams to determine designs.
- Determine project responsibilities by identifying project phases and elements, assigning personnel to phases and elements.
- Determine project specifications by studying product design, customer requirements, and performance standards.
- Determine project schedule by studying project plan and specifications, calculating time requirements, and sequencing project elements.
- Drive project and order schedule by monitoring project progress, coordinating activities, and resolving problems.
- Control project plan by reviewing design, specifications, and plan, scheduling changes, and recommending actions.
- Ensure every project has a quality control and build plan
- Control project costs by approving expenditures and administering contractor contracts.
- Communicate customer demand and forecasts to production planning and ensure there is ample capacity for customers current and upcoming programs
- Prepare project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends, recommending actions.
- Maintain product and company reputation by complying with federal and state regulations.
- Take overall accountability for execution of orders, including profitability
- Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
- Bridge all communication gaps between cross functional teams
- Clear Roadblocks and ensure success of customer orders, projects and new product launches
Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's or Masters of Science in Industrial or Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, Construction Management, or other related discipline
- Experience with Engineered to Order or New Product Introduction processes
- 8+ years of project experience working in the manufacturing of complex electro-mechanical systems
- Proficient with MS Office Suite of tools, exposure to schedule software.
- Experience with CAD, 3D modeling, and SolidWorks.
Preferred Qualifications: - Experience with medium to large manufacturing facilities sites preferred.
$135,000 - $160,000 a year
