MV Switchgear NPDI Project Lead

Vertiv; Westerville (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertiv, based in Westerville, Ohio, seeks a MV SWGR NPDI Project Manager to lead product lifecycle activities for the Switchgear product line in the Americas. The role uses the NPDI framework to drive development, market launch, and post-launch activities, including phasing out older products.

You will collaborate with marketing, sales, finance, and operations to ensure schedule, cost, and performance targets are met, and report progress to the global director of product management for SWGR PL.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Engineering or equivalent experience in product engineering, manufacturing or marketing in electrical apparatus industry.
• MBA beneficial but not required.
• Demonstrable experience in Engineering / Supply Chain or Manufacturing Operations and working with cross-functional teams to identify and execute on priority actions.
• Ability to drive and accept change, continuous improvement processes.
• Must have demonstrable skills with Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and Project. Smartsheet and Power BI experience beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Vertiv NPDI (New Product Development Introduction) process for product development as well as phase out.
• Work closely with the MV SWGR Product Manager to develop the new product’s requirement specification.
• Work closely with all the various stakeholders of the project to develop the feature specification. What the project team will deliver, at what cost and within what time.
• Assist the Product Manager in working with Marketing Communication to create the literature and promotional material needed to launch and support the project.
• Manage the new product prototype samples with operations to ensure they are delivered on time to support test lab availability and the product’s launch.
• Work closely with sales, pricing and finance to ensure the product delivers both project and commercial success from a financial point of view.
• Report at the executive level on how the project is progressing as well as how it interconnects with other projects in the overall Vertiv Portfolio.
• Ensure the team develops and loads the attributed data to support Oracle, PD Cloud and supporting configuration systems.
• Work closely with Vertiv’s Advanced Manufacturing Engineers to ensure product manufacturability and capital investment associated with the project.
• Primary manufacturing facilities are found in the USA and Mexico. However, Vertiv is a global manufacturing company and as needed operations support with a project can be extended to nondomestic locations.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Engineering experience

Supply chain experience

Manufacturing operations

Change management

Executive communications

NPDI

PLM

Education

B.S. in Engineering

MBA beneficial

Tools

Excel

MS Project

Smartsheet

Power BI

Job description

Vertiv, based in Westerville, Ohio, seeks a MV SWGR NPDI Project Manager to lead product lifecycle activities for the Switchgear product line in the Americas. The role uses the NPDI framework to drive development, market launch, and post-launch activities, including phasing out older products.

You will collaborate with marketing, sales, finance, and operations to ensure schedule, cost, and performance targets are met, and report progress to the global director of product management for SWGR PL.