NPI Project Manager

Posted February 02, 2022
Apply: Topcon


Topcon Positioning Group is headquartered in Livermore, California, USA (topconpositioning.com). Topcon Positioning Group designs, manufactures and distributes precise positioning products and solutions for the global surveying, construction, agriculture, civil engineering, BIM, mapping and GIS, asset management and mobile control markets.

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Responsibilities
  • 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.
  • Drive ramp readiness with internal teams as well as external partners (i.e. material availability, capacity readiness, transition plans).
  • Collaborate with engineering managers to control risk exposure by developing appropriate mitigation and contingency plans.
  • 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.
  • Track program issues and effectively negotiate decisions and trade-offs. Guide issues to resolution within internal and external groups. Experience in writing ECRs and ECOs as required in Arena or similar system.


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.
  • PMP certification preferred.
  • Other related industry experience shall be considered.
  • 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.
  • Ability to lead cross functional matrix-managed teams.
  • Familiarity with managing a team workspace such as Confluence or Sharepoint.
  • Familiarity with issue-tracking software such as JIRA.
  • Familiarity with PLM system such as Arena or similar documentation and change management system.
  • Familiar with ERP systems, SAP a plus.

Company policy requires newly hired employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 as of their start date. Company is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodation to the unvaccinated in accordance with federal, state, and local law.

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.