Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end NPI programs for electronics products, ensuring delivery against scope, schedule, cost, quality, and customer requirements.
• Develop and maintain integrated program plans using Microsoft Project.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, certification, testing, and commercial functions.
• Manage program milestones, dependencies, critical paths, resources, budgets, risks, and change requests.
• Drive design reviews, prototype builds, verification and validation, qualification, and production-readiness activities.
• Ensure smooth transition from product development to manufacturing and volume production.
• Monitor program performance using KPIs and provide clear status updates to senior leadership and customers.
• Identify program risks and implement effective mitigation and recovery plans.
• Manage customer and stakeholder expectations, including technical and commercial escalations.
• Support supplier readiness, component availability, and resolution of electronics supply-chain constraints.
• Ensure compliance with applicable quality, regulatory, safety, and aerospace standards.
• Facilitate lessons learned and continuous improvement across the NPI process.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline. A master’s degree or MBA is advantageous.
• 10–12years of relevant experience, including substantial experience managing NPI programs for electronics products.
• Demonstrated success in leading complex, cross-functional product-development and industrialization programs.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Project—approximately 7–8 out of 10—including scheduling, resource planning, dependency management, baselining, and critical-path analysis.
• Strong understanding of electronics product-development lifecycles, manufacturing processes, testing, validation, and production launch.
• Excellent program governance, stakeholder management, risk management, and executive communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and resolve technical, operational, and commercial issues.
• Experience working with global teams, customers, and suppliers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering aerospace or aviation electronics products.
• PMP, PRINCE2, or a comparable program/project-management certification.
• Experience with ERP, PLM, requirements-management, and issue-tracking systems

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degrees