Program Manager
About the role
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.
Responsibilities
- Liaise with customers for launch readiness and PSO
- Coordinate and lead for all customer-critical issues
- Review program metrics and satisfaction levels recurrently with the customer
- Coordinate, lead, and initiate the approval of program scope changes
- Report the management of activities to executive management
- Coordinate, lead, and approve the program schedule and tracking process
- Prepare regular reports for presentation to executive management
- 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
- 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
- Review and coordinate Engineering Change Requests (ECRs) and eventual Process Change Requests (PCR)
- Coordinate the Risk Assessment Plan with the program team
- Receive and review all recorded program risks
- Allocate risk prevention and risk mitigation actions
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business management or adjacent discipline required
- 5 years applicable experience in Engineering, Sales or related field
- 6+ years of experience preferred
- 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
Qualifications
- Must have a valid driver’s license
- Must be able to pass a drug screening and background check
Skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent organizational and problem-solving abilities
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
Benefits
- A safe collaborative learning work environment that stimulates creativity and exploration
- Diverse teams of experts
- Resources from around the globe
- Supportive leadership and team members to help you do your best work
- Opportunities for professional growth
- Competitive compensation and benefits package including incentive compensation, 401K match, tuition assistance and a generous holiday schedule
Pay
Competitive compensation and benefits package including incentive compensation, 401K match, tuition assistance and a generous holiday schedule
Schedule
Flexible schedule to accommodate both domestic and international travel requirements
Company Information
Yazaki North America is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, disability, handicap, veteran status, or other legally protected status or characteristic. Equal opportunity extends to all aspects of the employment relationship. Yazaki North America complies with federal and state equal employment opportunity laws and strives to keep the workplace free from all forms of harassment.
Location
Columbus, OH, USA