Program Manager

Yazaki•Columbus, OH

28d•Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for meeting established program targets and deliverables and for the successful completion of program objectives. Programs can typically consist of a number of products, special projects, parts, and customer engineering centers, global product development locations and different technology suites.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business management or adjacent discipline required
5 years applicable experience in Engineering, Sales or related field
Both domestic and international travel required between branches, customer and manufacturing sites
Ability to work extended hours as required to support launch, customer events and to meet with stakeholders in different time zones

Nice To Haves

6+ years of experience preferred

Responsibilities

Launch Readiness / Process Sign Off (PSO)
Conform to standard management system: Global Process Management System (GPMS)
Ensure all tasks are performed for launch readiness and PSO
Coordinate all customer visits to the manufacturing facilities
Assist in supplying requirements to Manufacturing
Approve all resolutions to the follow-up issues that are presented to the customer
Customer Contact: Coordinate and lead for all customer-critical issues while individual departments handle day to day issues
Review program metrics and satisfaction levels recurrently with the customer
Program Scope: Coordinate, lead, and initiate the approval of program scope changes
Report the management of activities to executive management
Scheduling and Tracking: Coordinate, lead, and approve the program schedule and tracking process to ensure the program meets the scope and customer requirements, to meet overall program metrics
Review program timing and progress toward achievement of targets and goals
Coordinate and lead the critical build phases, while approving support activities to ensure successful delivery of the program
Prepare regular reports for presentation to executive management, which address program progress status
Meeting Minutes: Schedule program coordination meetings regularly
Lead the cross-functional program coordination meeting
Review the meeting minutes to ensure timely completion of all tasks
“Prime” the meeting minutes/open issues/corrective actions system by entering initial program information into the system.
Open Issues: Review and assign newly entered open issues
Update issues in central tracking system
Review issue statuses between program meetings
Approve all closed issues
Classify and archive closed and approved issues for continuous improvement
Review open issues database for continuous improvement
Address any scope, schedule, and budget changes to the program brought on by open issues
Engineering Change: Review and coordinate Engineering Change Requests (ECRs) and eventual Process Change Request (PCR) and communicate and coordinate changes with the customer, affiliate and team members.
Risk Assessment: Coordinate the Risk Assessment Plan with the program team
Receive and review all recorded program risks
Allocate risk prevention and risk mitigation actions