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Program Manager
| Company | GILLIG |
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| Location | Livermore, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $75000 – $275000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in technical field (engineering or related), Masters a plus, MBA preferred
- Required 6+ years of experience in automotive, commercial vehicle or aerospace (or related field) product development and delivery, 3+ of which are program managing high dollar value products/product development
- Experienced systems engineering background preferred
- Strong technical background and excellent communication skills
- Exhibit strong emotional intelligence, interpersonal and leadership skills
- Experience taking multiple products to market as a program manager or integrated product team (IPT) leader
- Excellent business acumen
- Experience leading and facilitating program team meetings
- Highly accomplished verbal and written presentation, communication, and persuasion skills
- Deep understanding of a large program lifecycle
- Proven strategic and critical-thinking skills
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-functional teams to deliver new product development and introduction programs on-time, on-budget, and on specification
- Work with each functional area within GILLIG to define the content, tools, processes, deliverables, and core competencies needed to successfully develop and launch new products
- Partner with key stakeholders to ensure impactful program level risk and/or issues are timely communicated, understood, and mitigated
- Drive estimation, planning, organizing, and monitoring of the activities of cross-functional teams
- Ensure organizational readiness for successful new product introduction
- Responsible for program performance measurements, reporting, quality, resource needs, and key program financial and budgetary activities
- Proactively apply appropriate risk management (risks, issues, & opportunities) across assigned programs
- Track, analyze, and report on costs, schedule, and performance of programs
- Provide guidance to team members to ensure the program management processes are followed
- Act as a program management single-point-of-contact for assigned programs
- Actively cultivate an inclusive program management culture
- Institutionalize improvement opportunities using a formal Lessons Learned process
- Work independently and handle frequently changing needs of an organization
Preferred Qualifications
- Systems engineering background preferred
- Can-do attitude and approaches work with vigor and determination
- Ability to learn quickly within a fast-paced environment
