Industrialization Lead — NPD & Launch Projects

Daniel Defense, LLC; Black Creek (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Daniel Defense is seeking an Operations Project Engineering Lead to guide the end-to-end industrialization process for new product introductions and launches. You will align with NPD, Manufacturing, Quality, Procurement, and Supply Chain to ensure readiness and on-time delivery.

The role requires 7–10 years in manufacturing and strong ERP data governance, leadership, and project management skills. You will lead a team of Operations Project Engineers and uphold safety and continuous improvement

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of experience in manufacturing, industrialization, new product introduction, project engineering, or operations project management, including leadership of major programs.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the Operations Project Engineering function and the end-to-end industrialization process from design release through FAI, LRIP, production readiness, and product launch.
• Coordinate with NPD and other stakeholders as the senior liaison for industrialization priorities, commitments, decisions, resource conflicts, risks, and launch readiness.
• Direct the industrialization portfolio to support new product and solicitation goals; set priorities, assign ownership, balance capacity, and translate changes into schedules and actions.
• Establish and govern industrialization requirements, readiness criteria, decision rights, standard work, policies, templates, and document controls.
• Oversee readiness and governance of ERP item, bill of materials, routing, resource, runtime, labor standard, lead-time, costing, planning, and change data.
• Align Manufacturing Engineering, Quality, Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, NPD, and other stakeholders while preserving each function’s accountability for technical deliverables.
• Lead operations readiness reviews and represent Industrialization in NPD-led gate reviews; consolidate evidence, risks, and recommendations, and coordinate recovery plans.
• Represent the portfolio in SIOP, product roadmap, capacity, scheduling, and leadership reviews; communicate status, tradeoffs, constraints, resource needs, and decisions.
• Monitor launch timing, industrialization deliverables, action closure, FAI/LRIP performance, data readiness, and schedule adherence; drive systemic improvements.
• Lead and develop Operations Project Engineers; set expectations, review work quality, manage workload and coverage, and build capability for faster launches.
• Commitment to environmental health and safety principles and continuous improvement in Safety, 6S, Quality, Delivery and Productivity.

Skills

Industrialization leadership

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

ERP data governance

Negotiation & influence

Risk management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

ERP systems

MS Office

Job description

Daniel Defense is seeking an Operations Project Engineering Lead to guide the end-to-end industrialization process for new product introductions and launches. You will align with NPD, Manufacturing, Quality, Procurement, and Supply Chain to ensure readiness and on-time delivery.

The role requires 7–10 years in manufacturing and strong ERP data governance, leadership, and project management skills. You will lead a team of Operations Project Engineers and uphold safety and continuous improvement