Product Design Engineering Program Manager

Summary
As a Product Design Engineering Program Manager you will be responsible for the technical management of the development and implementation process for the mechanical components of one of our Home Products product development teams. In this role you will drive the day-to-day activities to meet the overall program objectives focusing on engineering, development planning and validation cycles. This involves engaging with large cross functional teams to balance several competing objectives and meet aggressive deliverable timelines.



Description
Support product definition and drive closure of architecture and technical opens in early stages of a project.
Establish and manage program feature baseline, scheduling, budget, critical paths, and technology risk areas for execution through final delivery of the product
Identify and highlight technical risk areas and mitigation strategies in partnership with impacted teams to help drive them to closure
Enable the development effort by creating and monitoring an efficient, streamlined process
Drive drawing releases and tooling kickoff with PD Engineering and the vendors to meet aggressive schedules
Plan and execute prototype builds by directing OEM partners
Lead cross functional communication between project teams and external vendors
Drive day-to-day activities to meet overall project objectives including calling and running meetings among engineering stakeholders
Offer multiple levels of status across a wide spectrum of individual contributors to executive management via written and verbal communication

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