Senior Technical Program Manager, Data Center Manufacturing

Tract Capital Management; Alexandria (VA); Presencial; USD 150 000 - 200 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

100% employer-covered medical, dental,

Vision insurance

401K program

Paid holidays

Unlimited PTO

Resumo da oferta

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

You will own integrated program strategy, governance, schedules, risks, and decision frameworks, ensuring teams align, issues surface early, and execution remains

Qualificações

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or related field.
• 10+ years of 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.

Responsabilidades

• Define end-to-end manufacturing strategy, including make-vs-buy decisions, manufacturing footprint, partner selection, capacity planning, and regional deployment strategy.
• Evaluate tradeoffs across cost, quality, lead time, logistics, supply chain risk, automation opportunities, and customer requirements.
• Develop manufacturing roadmaps supporting new product introduction, production ramp-up, and long-term scaling.
• Establish manufacturing methods, tooling, fixtures, test systems, production flows, and equipment strategies.
• 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 improvements in first-pass yield, defect reduction, process capability, and operational discipline.
• Develop scalable training programs, work instructions, certification requirements, and operating procedures.
• Lead relationships with contract manufacturers, OEMs, integrators, equipment suppliers, and automation partners.
• Drive partner performance across quality, cost, capacity, responsiveness, and delivery metrics.
• Serve as the manufacturing leader across Product Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Program Management, Operations, and Customer Delivery.
• Provide executive-level recommendations on manufacturing investments, risks, sourcing strategies, and scaling opportunities.

Conhecimentos

Leadership

Manufacturing strategy

Process development

Production scale-up

Automation strategies

Cross-functional collaboration

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Manufacturing/Operations

Master's degree preferred

Descrição da oferta de emprego

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

You will own integrated program strategy, governance, schedules, risks, and decision frameworks, ensuring teams align, issues surface early, and execution remains