Program Manager: Injection Molding & Tooling (Onsite)

Impact Business Group; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The client in Buffalo, NY seeks an experienced Program Manager to lead engineering resources and drive tooling, product launch, and manufacturing projects in a technical production environment.

Ideal candidate brings injection molding, tooling, and program-management background to develop engineering teams and oversee projects from planning to production launch, with 10–25% travel and cross-site support.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams in a highly technical production environment.
• Strong background in plastic injection molding, tooling, and project management.
• Ability to drive programs from planning through successful production launch.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, develop, and allocate workloads across the project engineering team.
• Identify training and development needs for engineering personnel.
• Lead tooling and product launch projects to meet customer requirements, timelines, and financial objectives.
• Maintain consolidated project tracking and portfolio reporting for launch timing, workload, capacity, resources, risks, and deliverables.
• Prioritize projects and resources while escalating risks, delays, or scope changes.
• Ensure engineering support for scientific molding, assembly-process development, tooling, BOMs, and production transfers.
• Lead evaluation and implementation of new processes and engineering improvements.
• Ensure qualifications and validations are completed; support root-cause investigations and corrective actions.
• Develop procedures to improve engineering services quality and consistency.
• Manage project economics including resource trade-offs, NRE, budgets, and delays.

Skills

Program management

Engineering leadership

Injection molding

Cross-functional collaboration

Project planning

Leadership development

Job description

The client in Buffalo, NY seeks an experienced Program Manager to lead engineering resources and drive tooling, product launch, and manufacturing projects in a technical production environment.

Ideal candidate brings injection molding, tooling, and program-management background to develop engineering teams and oversee projects from planning to production launch, with 10–25% travel and cross-site support.