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Join Us in Building the Future: Associate Technical Program Manager - Manufacturing Partner Focused at Fictiv, India

About Fictiv:

At Fictiv, we’re building the operating system for sourcing custom mechanical parts. We manufacture and deliver highly complex, high-quality parts for our Fortune 500 customers who are building the future with products like autonomous electric vehicles, surgical systems, and industrial robots. As we scale our business, we are looking to expand our growth within India.

Role Overview:

As an Associate Technical Program Manager, you will work directly with our manufacturing partners in the United States. Utilizing your engineering background and manufacturing process knowledge, you will manage high mix/low volume projects ensuring they are executed within scope, to customer requirements, and within budget, all while maintaining customer satisfaction. You will ensure a match between our customers’ requirements and the capabilities of the manufacturing partners assigned to each project. You will schedule assigned work orders, address in-process questions from manufacturing partners, provide production status visibility to customers, and mitigate major project risks.

Please Note: Ideal candidates for this role will have between 5 - 7 years equivalent work experience with a minimum of 2 years in a project management role in hardware/manufacturing as an OEM or, ideally, as a contract manufacturer. Also note, this is not a senior level role or a software program management position.

This position supports our US Manufacturing Partners and will therefore require working a shift equivalent to Pacific Time business hours in the United States.

Key Responsibilities:

- Project Management: Manage projects from execution to ensure success by adhering to standards of scope, budget, and timeline.

- Risk Mitigation: Mitigate risks and coordinate with stakeholders to ensure on-time delivery of orders to builders’ design specifications.

- Work Order Assignment: Take ownership of scheduling and overseeing the distribution of assigned manufacturing work orders to manufacturing partners.

- Production Issue Resolution: Address technical questions from manufacturers on how to best manufacture parts and build assigned products.

- Change Order Management: Evaluate and implement post-sale change requests from stakeholders while mitigating associated risks.

- Continuous Improvement: Identify areas for improvement and drive tactical and strategic improvements in the Technical Project Management workflow.

- Communication Management: Communicate proactively with all personnel to provide encouragement, identify problems, create solutions, and implement efficiency improvements.

- Manage projects throughout entire execution to ensure success by adhering to standards of scope, budget, and timeline.

- Mitigate risks and coordinate with stakeholders to ensure on-time delivery of orders to builders’ design specifications.

- Take ownership of scheduling and overseeing the distribution of assigned manufacturing work orders to manufacturing partners.

- Address technical questions from manufacturers on how to best manufacture parts and build assigned products.

- Evaluate and implement post-sale change requests from stakeholders while mitigating associated risks.

- Identify areas for improvement and drive tactical and strategic improvements in the Technical Project Management workflow.

- Communicate proactively with all personnel to provide encouragement, identify problems, create solutions, and implement efficiency improvements.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering and 5+ years of equivalent work experience with at least 2 years in a project management role in hardware/manufacturing as an OEM or contract manufacturer.

- Strong team orientation, excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Previous experience working night shifts.

- Fluent in written and spoken English, with experience working in multicultural environments.

- Background in working with at least three of the following manufacturing processes:

- 3DP Printing (Preferred)

- CNC Machining (MUST)

- Rapid Tooling (Preferred)

- Injection Molding (Preferred)

- Urethane Casting

- Sheet Metal Fabrication

- Proven project management skills: scope, timing, and quality management.

- Good understanding of quality management, testing, and logistics.

- Experience working with multiple stakeholders, managing project requirements, aligning expectations, and maintaining project communications through successful project completion.

- Experience in low volume piece part and proto builds (Preferred).

- Excellent problem-solving skills and results-oriented.

- Demonstrated ability to manage delivery schedules across tight deadlines.

- Meticulous, detail-oriented, and inclined towards documentation.

- History of data-based decision making.

- Self-starter, efficient in managing time, and capable of completing work without active supervision.

- Adaptable and gritty, able to work with ambiguous or under-defined processes while achieving project goals.

- Ability to improve the reliability and flexibility of systems.

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