Program Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Our Program Management team is expanding and looking to add a Program Manager. We are looking for a dynamic and driven candidate who is interested in joining a fast-growing global company in the automotive sector.

Program Manager oversees projects within a program to ensure that activities are carried out in accordance with established specifications, schedules, and budgets; leads program team and inter-departmental functions to achieve on-time completion of customer and Minth requirements; meets with program team members on a regular basis to review program status and plan future actions. Other duties include:

• Identify customer and Minth program deliverables, requirements, objectives, quality standards and timing requirements and communicate and update program status to the program team functions, our customer, and management
• Maintain and manage master program timing
• Ensure compliance with the Minth Program Management Gateway system
• Generate and obtain program budget approval and track ongoing program costs 
• Assure program budget conformance to margin, tooling, capital, and development costs
• Communicate program financial issues to the Account Manager for resolution with the customer 
• Chair regularly scheduled program review meetings
• Delegate deliverables to the program team
• Support product design activities as defined by the program team; the customer as a product team member. Support early product build events and Assembly Plant product launches
• Assure APQP requirements are met on each program and adhere to established TS-16949 standards and Minth Americas policies 

To qualify for this role you must meet the following:

• A technical degree and a minimum of 3 years of work experience in program management or a related field
• Program Management Certification preferred
• Minimum 3 years of risk management by assessing project risks by reviewing master program timing, control timing as well as program performance, reliability, manufacturability and market competitiveness
• Use of optimization modeling for status reviews
• Minimum 3 years analyzing company financial statements and regression models as well as generating and controlling program budgets to ensure conformance to margins, tooling, capital and development costs 
• Minimum 3 years experience with full-cycle automotive engineering design concepts: research, design requirement, feasibility, conceptualization, preliminary design, detailed design, design for manufacturability and production planning
• MINTH Products experience preferred
• Knowledge of customer procedures and expectations
• Experience with the Launch of Automotive OEM or Tier 1 suppliers' products 

Key to being successful in this role: 

• Ability to communicate professionally with people at all levels of the organization; to successfully handle multiple priorities simultaneously
• A demonstrated ability to work well in a team environment, to be proactive, to work independently of day-to-day supervision
• Ability and willingness to travel worldwide without any restrictions
• Ability to lead a team of project engineers and manage resources to meet program requirements
• bi-lingual: Nihonggo (Japanese) and English is a must have

Why work for Minth? Here are the advantages of working at Minth. 

• International development platform
• Dynamic and efficient team
• All-round personal improvement
• Personalized humanistic care
• Diversified working atmosphere
• Modern office setting
• Competitive compensation package