CapEx Program Manager - Product Operations

Apple; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple in Bengaluru seeks an experienced Program Manager for on-site capital equipment deployment supporting iPhone manufacturing at contract manufacturing sites. You will lead cross-functional teams across engineering, operations, and vendor partners, driving schedules, risk mitigation, and asset lifecycle management.

The role requires strong program management, negotiation skills, and the ability to interact with executives. Domestic and international travel up to 50% is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline.
• 5+ years of program management across multiple sites and asset lifecycle.
• Experience with capital equipment repair and scrap processes preferred.
• Enterprise-level proficiency with Microsoft Project or OmniPlan.
• Proficiency in Excel; Keynote skills are a plus.
• Strong communication, conflict resolution, and leadership abilities.
• Understanding of NPV, ROI and financial metrics applied to programs.
• Experience in stage-gate development processes.
• Program management coordinating multiple concurrent projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead on-site capital equipment program management at CM sites for iPhone manufacturing.
• Drive cross-functional communication between Apple teams and contract manufacturers.
• Maintain project schedules and ensure timely issue resolution.
• Support and guardianship of capital equipment deployed on-site.
• Drive transfers of capital equipment across sites and manage asset traceability.
• Provide status updates to executive management and stakeholders.
• Travel domestically and internationally up to 50%.

Skills

Project management

Interpersonal communication

Financial analysis

Excel

Microsoft Project

OmniPlan

Negotiation

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

Tools

Microsoft Project

OmniPlan

Excel

Keynote

Job description

Summary

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This position is based in Bangalore for leading on-site Capital Equipment program management functions for iPhone Operations team at contract manufacturing sites. Working cross-functionalally in a team environment, the successful candidate will lead execution of program plans for both new and sustaining programs which result in successful completion of projects.

The program manager will also act as on-site leader for resolving all escalations from contract manufacturers and would drive closure and consensus amongst project team members, and elevate issues as necessary to Cupertino in timely manner when the project team is off track.

Description

This role will plan, develop and execute the capital equipment's deployment at CM sites to support iPhone manufacturing by working with cross functional teams in India, US and China. Individuals are expected to show leadership in driving asset life cycle management to support functional and technical scope of individual iPhone projects across multiple sites in India. This role will regularly interact with executives and peers in iPhone Operations group and leaders in contract manufacturer management team. Interactions frequently will involve special skills, such as negotiating or management or attempting to influence CM behavior.

Responsibilities

• In this role one will drive day-to-day activities on-site to meet the overall program objectives focusing on escalations, communication and process alignment during engineering design and validation cycles for new programs. This role will also support and lead the overall guardianship of Apple's capital equipments deployed on-site.
• Drive day-to-day activities to meet overall program objectives
• Lead cross-functional communication between internal Apple team and contract manufacturer organization
• Facilitate good communication and collaboration across engineering functions, operations, and vendors
• Create and maintain project schedules. Provide timely issue resolution and critical path activities
• Offer multiple levels of status updates across a wide spectrum of individual projects to executive management
• Drive CM teams for capital equipment transfers across sites
• Drive CM teams to maintain high traceability and usability of Apple's assets
• Drive CM teams to execute efficiency in equipment repair process to minimize downtime, spares and repair TAT
• Review and approve capital equipment consumable spend by CM

Minimum Qualifications

• A Bachelor's Degree in a technical discipline
• 5+ progressive years of functional and program management experience required in a matrix environment, across multiple sites through the entire asset lifecycle (Concept/Approval/ Deployment/Transfer/Scrap)
• Experience in managing capital equipment repair and scrap processes preferable
• Proficiency using Microsoft Project Or OmniPlan at the enterprise level
• Proficiency using Excel, Keynote is must
• Ability to resolve conflict and drive compromise
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Solid understanding of economic metrics such as NPV, ROI, etc, and their application to program management
• Experience managing projects within a defined stage-gate project development process
• Program management experience that involves tactical coordination (scope, schedule & resource management) of multiple concurrent projects
• Experience in other complex capital equipment such as military, aerospace, automotive, large agricultural machinery, etc.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 50%

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP certification desirable. Demonstration of equivalent knowledge is required if not certified
• Experience working with contract manufacturers
• Familiarity with semiconductor capital equipment and their application to semiconductor manufacturing processes
• Demonstrated experience in lean design methodologies
• Excellent communication, organizational and leadership skills. Ability to filter and distill relevant information for the right audience
• Ability to deal with with rapid development cycles & remains flexible and calm in the face of ambiguity
• Detailed knowledge of product development processes as well as a strong understanding of manufacturing processes

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Role Number: 200688394-0321