Operations Program Manager

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams to advance Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) on new programs and promote production readiness on active programs.
• Provide detailed manufacturing BOEs to support bid and proposal efforts for new product introduction.
• Actively monitor and track progress against manufacturing budgets and schedules to align with production costs.
• Track and drive continuous improvements in operations related to cost and cycle time reduction.
• Develops, implements, and maintains methods, operation sequence and processes in the manufacture or fabrication of parts, components, sub-assemblies, and final assemblies.
• Conducts tests throughout all stages of production to determine control over applicable variables and troubleshooting and resolving manufacturing problems that are extremely complex and require the regular use of ingenuity and creativity.
• Designs the arrangement of manufacturing equipment to ensure most efficient and productive layout.
• Interfaces and collaborates with design engineering in coordinating the release of new products.
• Provides guidance to product design engineering on technical specifications that will best utilize equipment and manufacturing techniques.
• Estimates manufacturing cost, determines time standards, and makes recommendations for tooling and process requirements of new or existing product lines.
• Safeguards production processes and procedures to ensure compliance with regulations.
• Maintains records and reporting systems for coordination of manufacturing operations.
• Develops appropriate documentation of findings and implemented solutions and communicates results to staff.
• Makes technical presentations to staff.
• Provides direction to less experienced professionals, design staff or technicians.
• Maintains the strict confidentiality of sensitive information.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelor's in engineering or a related technical field as well as nine or more years of manufacturing engineering experience.
• May substitute equivalent experience in lieu of education.
• Demonstrates an extensive technical expertise and application of manufacturing engineering principles, concepts, theory, and practice with the ability to organize, plan, schedule, conduct, and coordinate workloads to meet established deadlines or milestones with some experience in project leadership.
• Possesses the ability to understand new concepts quickly and apply them accurately throughout an evolving environment.
• Customer focused, formulates plans based on the development of innovative new designs in resolving extremely complex manufacturing engineering problems.
• Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills are required enabling an effective interface with other departments and/or professionals, and capable of representing the organization as a prime technical contact, as well as providing leadership and guidance to less experienced professionals.
• Able to work both independently and in a team environment.
• Able to work extended hours as required.