Technical Program Manager, Manufacturing

What’s in it for you?

Opportunity To Unlock Your Creativity
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Opportunity To Grow Your Career
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Impact In This Role

At Fictiv, we’re building a company that is developing the operating system for sourcing custom mechanical parts. We already enjoy manufacturing and delivering highly complex, high quality parts for our Fortune 500 customers who are building the future with products like autonomous electric vehicles, surgical systems, and industrial robots. As we scale our business, we are looking to expand our growth within India.

In your role as Technical Program Manager, you will be working directly with our manufacturing partners in India, you’ll be using your engineering background, manufacturing process knowledge and management experience, to develop and implement effective and efficient program plans to ensure we’re executing programs within scope, budget and timing; while meeting or exceeding customer’s expectations. You will be the Manufacturing Partner’s point of contact; you will work with them to meet or exceed our customer’s expectations, support change requests, and address deviations. You will be responsible for overseeing multiple programs across multiple Manufacturing Partners, proactively managing risks and collaborating with the local Operations team to keep programs on track and provide the corresponding program updates. 

As an experienced member of the team, you will be following our defined processes and driving their use in a new region with new manufacturing partners. Additionally, you will actively identify areas for improvement in your workflow and in the systems used by the Technical Program Management team, and will drive those improvements through cross functional projects. You will also be working cross functionally to support the development of robust processes which will ensure the successful introduction of new service offerings that Fictiv launches to the public.

We have two sets of customers—our builders, who order parts through us, and our manufacturing partners, who manufacture and assemble these parts—and you’ll take the inputs from our builders and work with our manufacturing partners to deliver on our builders’ expectations.  At Fictiv, we are building the operating system for custom mechanical parts through New Product Development, and you’ll be playing a critical role in making that happen.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Program Management – Manage projects with top-down oversight throughout entire execution to ensure success as defined by adherence to standards of scope, budget, and timeline.
• Program Planning - Develop robust project plans that meet the customer expectations, and coordinate various stakeholders throughout the program lifecycle.

• Program Risk Management - Identify risks, implement risk mitigation plans and coordinate with various stakeholders (internally and externally) in order to meet or exceed customer expectations.
• Work Order Assignment – Take ownership of scheduling and overseeing the distribution of your assigned manufacturing work orders to members of our manufacturing partner network in order to fulfill our builders’ orders on time.
• Production Issue Resolution – Drive resolution of technical issues in coordination with our manufacturing partners and our operations team in alignment with our customer’s expectations.
• Change Order Management – Ensure post-sale change requests from all stakeholders are evaluated, and appropriately addressed while mitigating any associated risks.
• Continuous Improvement – Identifying areas of improvement and driving tactical and strategic improvements to the Technical Program Management workflow.

• Communication Management - Communicate proactively with all involved personnel to provide encouragement, identify problems, create solutions, and implement efficiency improvements
• Program Performance Monitoring - Monitor project progress continuously in alignment to the Program Management metrics, provide visibility to the leadership team and escalate when necessary.
• Program Resource Management - Manage resource planning in alignment with the program needs, coordinate with functional leads to identify corresponding stakeholders and to address capacity/capability gaps.

Desired Traits

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering(or equivalent) and 10+ years of equivalent work experience with minimum 5 years in a project management role within fast-paced hardware product development projects, with a manufacturing focus at an OEM or, ideally, at a contract manufacturer.
• Strong team orientation & communication skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Fluent in written and spoken English, experience working in multinational environments.
• Background in working with a minimum of three of the following manufacturing processes:
• 3DP Printing
• CNC Machining - MUST
• Rapid Tooling - Preferred
• Injection Molding - MUST
• Urethane Casting
• Sheet Metal Fabrication
• FATP - Preferred
• Proven project management skills: scope, timing and quality management. 
• Good understanding in quality management, testing, sourcing, SCM management, logistics and finance.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders, managing project requirements, aligning expectations, and maintaining project communications through a successful project completion.
• Experience in low volume and proto builds.
• Good understanding of the hardware product development process: EVT, DVT, PVT, MP.
• You are excellent with problem-solving skills.
• You are results-oriented.
• Possesses a good sense of urgency, demonstrated ability of owning and managing delivery schedules across tight deadlines.
• You are meticulous, detail-oriented, and have an inclination for documentation.
• You have a history of data-based decision making.
• Self-starter, manages time efficiently, able to complete work in a timely manner without active supervision.
• Adaptable and gritty - you can work with ambiguous or under-defined processes and while still being able to output work that meets the ultimate goals of the project.
• You’re able to see the benefit to systems that can be both repeatable and adaptable, and you’re able to improve the reliability of these systems while maintaining their flexibility.

 

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Perks and Benefits

• Transportation facility will be provided by the company
• Canteen facility will be available
• Safe work environment 

Interested in learning more?  We look forward to hearing from you soon.