Operations Program Manager (Core Technologies)

Responsibilities

• Accountable for end to end manufacturing operations at suppliers to execute development builds per schedule, leading up to ramp and into mass production
• Establish the appropriate engagement model and define roles and responsibilities between supplier and internal cross functional teams
• Drive supplier readiness activities to execute development builds leading up to ramp, including design & layout of manufacturing lines, development of process qualifications plans, and defining capacity & capex requirements, while clearly identifying deliverables and dependencies
• Establish and lead on-site bring-up and integration activities, coordinating with both internal and external resources
• Lead ramp availability with GSM, Manufacturing & Test, Quality, and other internal and external teams
• Ensure the successful launch of products towards meeting its stated cost, quality, schedule, and availability goals
• Audit, analyze, consolidate, and communicate risk and status clearly and succinctly to management, calling out key issues and presenting options for resolution to the cross-functional executive team through the new product reviews and other executive forums
• Actively participate in Engineering design and technology development discussions, providing focus and direction to deliver scalable manufacturing solutions
• Be the Operations owner for the partner’s decisions around equipment, tooling and fixture sub suppliers
• Lead program readiness reviews representing supplier technical operations and overall readiness, and drive closure on design/technical & operations issues

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience managing supplier technical operations
• Broad understanding of optical & mechanical technologies, and demonstrated experience with deployment of manufacturing processes to support complex technologies
• Data-driven problem solving skills to address multi-dimensional problems with high levels of uncertainty across multiple functional teams
• Demonstrated technical, strategic and commercial skills required to deliver new technologies
• Experience in communicating effectively with a broad range of stakeholders, collaborators and clients, at different levels
• Ability to travel at least 25% on-site to suppliers during critical bring-up and build activities

About Meta

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