NPI Operations Program Manager
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Operations and Supply Chain
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In NPI OPM team, you are the primary operations interface to the core engineering product development teams and other cross functional organizations within Apple and the external contract manufacturers. You will be responsible to lead the new product ramp to deliver products in the fastest time with the highest product quality to the market.
Key Qualifications
- - Experience in manufacturing, process engineering or product development
- - Results oriented and attention to detail, highly energetic, proactive, hands on and organized.
- - Work in a highly dynamic, fast faced and ambiguous environment.
- - Strong communications skills, commands good executive presence.
- - Ability to facilitate difficult issues and drive cross functional teams for closures.
Description
- Manage a new product ramp, from initial design validation to mass production phase
- Work with global NPI team to drive ramp readiness with engineering, operations and contract manufacturers, focus in overall capacity planning, manufacturing process scalability and overall bring up plan of multiple factory sites that includes factory space, labor hiring, training and production lines qualifications
- Support Engineering and global NPI teams in driving design development builds in Asia
- Manage all operations related communications through the organization, call out key issues and present solutions and risk mitigations to cross functional executive teams.
- Drive Engineering, Operations and Contract Manufacturers on design for manufacturing to enable continued volume growth at the best product quality
- Support critical mechanical tooling fixture validation builds when design is mature, from the last phase of design development through initial mass production
Education & Experience
- BS/BA degree in Mechanical, EE, Wireless Engineering, Industrial Engineering. Master/MBA or equivalent experience is preferred