Principal TPM, New Product Dev — Hardware Manufacturing

Tract Capital Management; Alexandria (VA); Vor Ort; USD 150.000 - 200.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401K program

Paid holidays

Unlimited PTO

Zusammenfassung

Tract Capital Management seeks a Principal Technical Program Manager, New Product Development to lead the most complex manufacturing programs for data center infrastructure. You will partner with Product Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Construction, Commissioning, and Operations to drive products from concept through design, validation, pilot, launch, and scaled production.

You will own integrated program strategy, governance, schedules, risks, and decisions to ensure

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or related field.
• 10+ years in manufacturing, operations, industrialization, or advanced manufacturing experience.
• 5+ years leading manufacturing strategy, process development, or production scale‑up for complex hardware products.
• Proven experience with manufacturing footprint decisions, automation strategies, contract manufacturing, OEM partnerships, and production system design.
• Track record improving quality, throughput, capacity, and on‑time delivery.
• Experience launching products from prototype or pilot production into volume manufacturing.

Aufgaben

• Define end-to-end manufacturing strategy, including make‑vs‑buy decisions, manufacturing footprint, partner selection, capacity planning, and regional deployment strategy.
• Lead adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies including robotics, automation, machine vision, digital work instructions, and data‑driven process controls.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure products are designed for manufacturability, testability, serviceability, and production scale.
• Build production systems that achieve throughput, cycle time, labor efficiency, and capacity targets.
• Lead pilot builds, process validation, production readiness, staffing plans, and volume production transitions.
• Implement KPIs and dashboards to monitor yields, schedule attainment, bottlenecks, and overall manufacturing performance.
• Define manufacturing quality strategies, in‑process controls, testing requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions for manufacturing, supplier, and field quality issues.
• Drive partner performance across quality, cost, capacity, responsiveness, and delivery metrics.
• Develop scalable training programs, work instructions, certification requirements, and operating procedures.
• Lead relationships with contract manufacturers, OEMs, integrators, equipment suppliers, and automation partners.

Kenntnisse

Manufacturing strategy

Process development

Production scale-up

Contract manufacturing

OEM partnerships

Quality improvement

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven decision making

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or related field

Master’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or Business

Jobbeschreibung

Tract Capital Management seeks a Principal Technical Program Manager, New Product Development to lead the most complex manufacturing programs for data center infrastructure. You will partner with Product Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Construction, Commissioning, and Operations to drive products from concept through design, validation, pilot, launch, and scaled production.

You will own integrated program strategy, governance, schedules, risks, and decisions to ensure