Program Manager â Cooking Products Job in Louisville 40225, Kentucky US
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Role Summary/Purpose The program manager is responsible for the strategic and day-to-day leadership of the cross-functional program team in all aspects of project execution.
Essential Responsibilities – Lead a cross-functional team of Sourcing, Manufacturing, Production, Product Management, Quality and Technology members to execute a new product introduction – Provide direct management for the GE based design team members and indirect management for offsite support design team members.
- Manage program risk, schedule, and budget, product performance, quality, and cost.
- Manage design and drawing release to meet program milestones.
- Develop and execute design builds and evaluation plans to validate product performance vs. the product technical specification.
- Present weekly pulsing updates to the Range business team highlighting program status to all deliverables and key risks.
- Utilize Design for Six Sigma methodology to ensure consumer and customer CTQs are met. – Drive design for reliability and cost of quality efforts to ensure reliability and service call rate requirements are met. – Work with Range material cost out team to drive incremental margin benefits with cost out projects within the program.
- Coordinate with the manufacturing and factory teams to optimize Six Sigma Lean efforts to drive program benefits.
- Lead team through all Reviews, specifically Program & Technical Reviews.
Present Program reviews to Business Cross-Function Leadership Team.
Qualifications/Requirements – Bachelors degree in mechanical or electrical engineering- Minimum of 5 years industry experience- Significant knowledge of residential cooking products, preferably gas products.
- Project leadership experience; demonstrated ability to manage risk and meet technical and commercial objectives.
- Strong oral and written communication skills – Strong interpersonal and leadership skills- Some travel required to support program milestones and production implementation.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications – Bachelors degree in mechanical or electrical engineering- Minimum of 5 years industry experience- Significant knowledge of residential cooking products, preferably gas products.
- Project leadership experience; demonstrated ability to manage risk and meet technical and commercial objectives.
- Strong oral and written communication skills – Strong interpersonal and leadership skills- Some travel required to support program milestones and production implementation.
Desired Characteristics – Six Sigma knowledge/certification – Lean knowledge/certification- Experience with gas range products
Program Manager â Cooking Products Job in Louisville 40225, Kentucky US