NPI Industrialization Lead — Electronics

Variosystems; Southlake (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group Health Insurance

Vision

Life Insurance

Pet Insurance

LTD & STD

401k

Critical Illness Flexible Spending Acc

Disability

Job summary

Variosystems is seeking an Industrialization Project Manager to lead the successful industrialization of new products from prototype through stable series production. Based in Southlake, Texas, you will coordinate with customers and global teams to ensure quality, on-time delivery, and regulatory compliance.

You will drive prototypes, tooling readiness, and process improvements, manage cross-functional collaboration, and report milestones, risks, and costs to leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial/Manufacturing/Mechanical/Electrical engineering or related field.
• Minimum five years in electronics, electromechanical, advanced manufacturing, NPI, industrialization, manufacturing engineering, operations, or related project leadership.
• Strong PM, planning, prioritization, financial awareness, organizational, risk-management, problem-solving, decision-making, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Advanced understanding of electronics and mechanical assemblies, manufacturing and test processes, tooling and equipment, production ramp-up, process validation, quality systems, regulatory compliance, and continuous-improvement methods.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple industrialization projects across the NPI lifecycle; develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, delivery targets, budgets, resources, and launch-readiness criteria.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and serve as the primary industrialization interface between customers, the Technical Project Manager, Business Development, Manufacturing and Process Engineering, Test Engineering, Quality, Planning, Supply Chain, Data & Document Control, Production, and Customer Service.
• Oversee prototype, pilot, and 0-series builds; provide production-floor support and collaborate with operators and technical specialists to resolve manufacturing issues and stabilize production.
• Ensure jigs, fixtures, tools, equipment, work instructions, production documentation, reports, and training requirements are available and ready for launch; manage Prototype Request Tickets with the tool shop.
• Optimize manufacturing methods, workflows, cost, throughput, first-pass yield, and process capability with Process Engineering; implement lessons learned and best practices.
• Lead project reviews, readiness assessments, and stakeholder communications; provide clear status, milestone, risk, financial, and recovery-plan reporting
• Verify manufacturing readiness and coordinate the formal transfer from NPI to stable series production while supporting ramp-up performance and customer satisfaction.
• Use standard office, project-management, ERP, production, technical-documentation, and manufacturing-support systems and equipment required for project execution.

Skills

Project management

Planning

Financial awareness

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Problem solving

Decision making

Communication

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Industrial/Manufacturing/Mechanical/Electrical engineering

Tools

SAP/FLX ERP

MES systems

Microsoft Office

Project-management software

Job description

Variosystems is seeking an Industrialization Project Manager to lead the successful industrialization of new products from prototype through stable series production. Based in Southlake, Texas, you will coordinate with customers and global teams to ensure quality, on-time delivery, and regulatory compliance.

You will drive prototypes, tooling readiness, and process improvements, manage cross-functional collaboration, and report milestones, risks, and costs to leadership.