Senior Strategic Program Manager - Hardware & Manufacturing

Fabrinet West Inc; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Fabrinet West Inc in Santa Clara, CA seeks a Senior Program Manager to lead program implementation through the contract manufacturing process. You will oversee planning, scheduling, and hardware fabrication, ensuring on-time and on-budget deliveries.

The role requires 8+ years in CM/Electronics manufacturing with strong financial acumen and excellent communication. You will coordinate with cross-functional teams to optimize productivity and profitability.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of program management, manufacturing, supply chain, and operations functions, and strong financial acumen.
• Dynamic builder of relationships with customers, with track record of identifying new areas of opportunity and negotiating complex business deals for mutual benefit.
• Well versed in all MS Office applications.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and understand customer strategies, future product plans, and expansion activities to develop penetration strategies for new business opportunities.
• Cultivate customer relationships and deliver effective strategies to enhance revenue.
• Brief and leverage senior executives on strategy and tactics to improve customer relations and deals.
• Establish and communicate objectives for proposal deliverables to maximize profit and revenue growth.
• Plan capacity and set realistic production commits for SMT starts per day or week.
• Manage build priorities with internal teams and the customer.
• Ensure readiness of manufacturing processes and expedite builds as needed on the floor.
• Provide real-time status updates and escalate issues to resolve delays in builds.
• Coordinate workflow between front-end SMT and back-end MA and test areas.
• Track performance on key business metrics and ensure revenue, margins, and costs meet objectives.
• Monitor customer satisfaction metrics like price performance and on-time delivery.

Skills

Program management

Manufacturing

Supply chain

Financial acumen

MS Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA preferred

Engineering discipline

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Fabrinet West Inc in Santa Clara, CA seeks a Senior Program Manager to lead program implementation through the contract manufacturing process. You will oversee planning, scheduling, and hardware fabrication, ensuring on-time and on-budget deliveries.

The role requires 8+ years in CM/Electronics manufacturing with strong financial acumen and excellent communication. You will coordinate with cross-functional teams to optimize productivity and profitability.