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Responsibilities
- Own, monitor and manage TPS HW/SW product developments within all BU's.
- Drive product requirements into the product during its lifecycle phase, ensuring we are building what the current business needs as outlined by the Market requirements.
- Participate, own and/or lead continuous process improvement projects via the teams outlined initiatives.
- Assist in the development of new Product Requirements Documents
- Coordinate with Engineering teams to ensure products are optimized for cost, manufacturability, testability, supply chain flexibility, and efficiency
- Lead global cross-functional teams to drive project tasks, communicate issues, and prepare for production ramp and/or product transitions.
- Plan and execute development (NPI) builds and ensure these products transition to production within cost, quality and capacity parameters.
- Balance process compliance with achievement of business objectives to make the right strategic trade-off for the program.
- Document and communicate status, action items, issues and risks in a timely manner to key stake holders. Escalate critical issues to senior management when necessary.
- Demonstrate ability to write concise, well summarized reports to senior management.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, manufacturing, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of project management and/or related experience in the manufacturing of technology hardware, including support of firmware and software.
- Project management discipline with strong knowledge of product life cycle processes
- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
- Proficiency in the Microsoft suite of products with a heavy focus on Project, Excel, Power Point, and Word
- Strong, demonstrated commitment to teamwork and working with internal and external customers.
- Familiarity with issue-tracking software such as JIRA
- Familiarity with PLM system such as Arena or similar documentation and change management system.
- Familiarity with ERP system such as SAP
- PMP certification preferred.
Topcon is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.