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Program Manager ISS
Date:
Dec 20, 2024
Company:
Joysonsafety
Job Function:
Engineering
Job Type:
Location:
San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo León, MX
Country/Region:
MX
Requisition ID:
1604
We are currently seeking a Program Manager for our Monterrey, Mexico Shared Services Center facility.This role is with our Integrated Safety Solutions (ISS) Group.
Summary:
Manage new model and current production programs to ensure objectives are delivered on time and with quality to the budget.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Coordinate, maintain, communicate, and present the launch and critical path schedules to the Joyson Safety Systems management team
- Manage preparation, audit evidence, and present the project health at major launch milestone events throughout the project
- Prepare project status reports to summarize project performance relative to baselines in areas of timing, cost, and risk
- Act as the lead of a team of to ensure consistency and accuracy across multiple programs, projects, and customers
- Construct, maintain, coordinate, and communicate multiple project plans to manage scope and adequately manage risk
- Learn the Joyson Safety Systems engineering, procurement, production, and launch process in enough depth to ensure you can critically plan projects appropriately
- Have the ability to learn assemblies, sequences, and associated constraints to accurately describe, manage, and resolve issues through tangible action plans
- Develop, maintain, and improve usage of schedule tools to identify, analyze, and communicate project timing at all levels
- Develop and manage a clearly articulated Open Issues list, chair project meetings, and drive issues to closure on time to a plan
- Build customer relationships through regular meeting cadence to ensure the final product is delivered to expectations
- In addition to new model launches, manage production applications with change management tools and techniques
- Manage preparation of prototype and pre-production build events with a cross functional support team
- Joyson Safety Systems is an evolving and highly dynamic organization, there will be continual process improvements in all areas of the company and you must be flexible to change
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline is preferred but not required
- 5+ years of Automotive Program Management is required
- Must be comfortable working with the Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Power Point, Outlook)
- Comfortable managing medium (300-900) line project plans in Microsoft Project or an equivalent timing application
- PMP certification is a benefit but not a requirement
Preferred Skills
- Experience performing timing analysis and related techniques to ensure critical path activities are managed appropriately
- Basic financial acumen to develop, manage, and execute project budgets
- Change management skill set to ensure running production changes are coordinated and executed with a result of limiting supply chain and customer risk
- Basic understanding of global supply chain and the influences it can have on a project plan
- Strong organizational, analytical, verbal and written communication skills
- Able to work and communicate well with others in a team environment including customers and supplier partners
- Must be diplomatically persuasive and professionally assertive when required to keep projects on time
- Ability to work with limited supervision to manage a project team of 3-15 people developing, maintaining, and coordinating many areas of the Joyson Safety System organization
- Highly skilled at taking large quantities of information and presenting it in a clear and concise manner
- Must be willing to travel 5%-10% domestically and internationally for internal, customer, and project related visits
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