Program Manager

Minth-North-America; Alabama City (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Minth-North-America is seeking a Program Manager in Gadsden, AL to lead cross-functional teams in automotive program management. The role focuses on delivering projects on time and within budget, while coordinating across engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers to meet customer requirements.

The successful candidate will have a technical engineering degree, 5+ years in program management, and experience with aluminum battery tray development and APQP/PPAP standards.

Qualifications

• Technical degree and 5+ years of program management experience.
• PM Certification preferred.
• 5 years of risk management including master timing, control timing, reliability, manufacturability and market competitiveness.
• Experience with financial analysis, budgets, margins, tooling and development costs.
• 3+ years with full-cycle automotive engineering design concepts (design to production).
• Strong Aluminum Battery Tray development experience and related foundry processes.
• Knowledge of APQP, PPAP, FMEA, MSA, SPC and IATF16949.
• Experience launching Automotive OEM or Tier 1 supplier products.

Responsibilities

• Oversee projects within a program to meet specifications, schedules, and budgets.
• Lead program team and inter-departmental functions to achieve on-time delivery.
• Review program status and plan future actions with team members.
• Maintain and manage master program timing and budget approval.
• Ensure compliance with APQP and Minth Americas policies.
• Support product design activities and early product build events and launches.
• Communicate financial issues to the Account Manager for resolution.

Skills

Program management

Risk management

Budget control

Cross-functional leadership

Team leadership

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

APQP

PPAP

FMEA

MSA

SPC

IATF16949

Job description

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Program Manager

Full Time Gadsden, AL, US

23 days ago Requisition ID: 2908

Salary Range: $90,000.00 To $110,000.00 Annually

Our Program Management team is expanding and looking to add a Program Manager. We are looking for a dynamic and driven candidate who is interested in joining a fast-growing global company in the automotive sector.

Program Manager oversees projects within a program to ensure that activities are carried out in accordance with established specifications, schedules, and budgets; leads program team and inter-departmental functions to achieve on-time completion of customer and Minth requirements; meets with program team members on a regular basis to review program status and plan future actions. Other duties include:

• Identify customer and Minth program deliverables, requirements, objectives, quality standards and timing requirements and communicate and update program status to the program team functions, our customer, and management
• Maintain and manage master program timing
• Ensure compliance with the Minth Program Management Gateway system
• Generate and obtain program budget approval and track ongoing program costs
• Assure program budget conformance to margin, tooling, capital, and development costs
• Communicate program financial issues to the Account Manager for resolution with the customer
• Chair regularly scheduled program review meetings
• Delegate deliverables to the program team
• Support product design activities as defined by the program team; the customer as a product team member. Support early product build events and Assembly Plant product launches
• Assure APQP requirements are met on each program and adhere to established TS-16949 standards and Minth Americas policies

To qualify for this role you must meet the following:

• A technical degree and a minimum of 5 years of work experience in program management or a related field
• Program Management Certification preferred
• Minimum 5 years of risk management by assessing project risks by reviewing master program timing, control timing as well as program performance, reliability, manufacturability and market competitiveness
• Use of optimization modelling for status reviews
• Minimum 3 years analyzing company financial statements and regression models as well as generating and controlling program budgets to ensure conformance to margins, tooling, capital and development costs
• Minimum 3 years of experience with full-cycle automotive engineering design concepts: research, design requirements, feasibility, conceptualization, preliminary design, detailed design, design for manufacturability and production planning
• Strong experience in Aluminum Battery Tray product development and program management
• Strong knowledge of aluminum melting, refining, degassing, casting, homogenization, and related foundry processes
• Experience with melting furnaces, holding furnaces, casting machines, cooling systems, and utility infrastructure
• Solid knowledge of APQP, PPAP, FMEA, MSA, SPC, IATF16949
• Knowledge of customer procedures and expectations
• Experience with the Launch of Automotive OEM or Tier 1 suppliers' products

Key to being successful in this role:

• Ability to communicate professionally with people at all levels of the organization; to successfully handle multiple priorities simultaneously
• A demonstrated ability to work well in a team environment, to be proactive, to work independently of day-to-day supervision
• Ability and willingness to travel worldwide without any restrictions
• Ability to lead a team of project engineers and manage resources to meet program requirements
• Bilingual: Korean and English are a must-have

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