Program Manager in Cass City, Michigan at Walbro

About Walbro:

Walbro, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Active Dynamics Group, is a progressive OEM supplier that designs, tests, and manufactures unique solutions for multiple systems and multiple industries. This full-service, end-to-end capabilities are paired with a collaborative, creative approach, global reach, and agile structure to offer real-world benefits in terms of turnaround time, cost, service, and customization. We're always growing, always evolving, and always finding new ways to bring meaningful value to our customers and partners.

As a world leader in the design and manufacturing industry, Walbro is seeking an eager and enthusiastic experienced Program Manager to join our successful Cass City, MI team! We are looking for a talent with solid professional skills in the manufacturing industry who can provide superb work experience. This posting is for an existing, immediate vacancy.

About the Role:

As Program Manager, you are the face of the Active Dynamics Group/Walbro for assigned customers and programs. You will partner with sales, engineering, manufacturing, quality, purchasing, to keep programs on schedule, on target, and aligned with customers’ needs.

Required Skills:

· Ability to build collaborative relationships

· Ability to develop and mentor others

· Goal oriented and ability to meet deadlines

· Skilled in motivating program teams to achieve challenging objectives

· Strong negotiation, facilitation, and conflict management skills

· Ability to work under minimum supervision

· Customer centric and relationship focused

Job Duties:

Execute on assigned programs that meet the needs of the organization and its customers. Participate in all aspects of corporate and customer programs and initiatives, including planning, budgeting, staff coaching, and program performance. Establish and maintain the customer and program master timing schedule, promote and track the program throughout the organization to ensure successful program realization. Oversee and mentor the work of program or project related staff members to ensure work is completed on time and in accordance with established standards or specifications. Evaluate program effectiveness by collecting and analyzing data in support of key performance metrics. Ensure program activities follow internal and customer organizational policies and any relevant external regulations. Serve as the lead promoter for assigned programs and provide reports and updates to senior management or other stakeholders.

The Program Manager is responsible for leading customer and internal programs from the initial inception through production, ensuring successful execution across engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, and customer stakeholders. This role serves as the primary point of contact for assigned customer programs and drives program performance, timing, risk management, and successful product industrialization across multiple global facilities.

The Program Manager has full program responsibility and is competent at:

· Risk management

· Scope definition and management

· Change management

· Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) creation

· Program timeline development and management

· Resource planning

· Customer and internal stakeholder management

· Financial management

· Program governance

The Program Manager is an Individual contributor, servant leader for the cross-functional team, and direct point of contact for customer line trials. He/she possesses a solid working knowledge of subject matter, and provides direction, coaching, mentoring to a subordinate group or individuals upon assignment and as applicable. Offsite travel as required.

Near-term Projects and Opportunities:

· Assist in the evaluation, implementation and the continued development of in scope Global Program Management reporting platform/systems.

· Assist with the evaluation of existing processes and program management tools in use at other Active Dynamics Group locations and recommend a path forward.

· Assist in the planning and execution of new projects, requiring industrialization of capital and tooling to transfer products from one location to another.

· Take ownership of all programs related aspects with customer facing accounts

· Assist and contribute to Active’s mission to become platform focused. This requires close coordination and oversight of multiple components from multiple global locations. This corporate objective requires discipline, strategic thinking, and close focus to ensure flawless integration with internal stakeholders and external customer teams spread across multiple locations.

Qualifications:

· Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management, or related field

· PMP Certification

· 5+ years of experience in program, project, or launch management within a manufacturing environment

· Experience leading customer-facing programs

· Proficiency with Microsoft Project, Excel, Power BI, and ERP systems

· Broad technical and analytical business skills

· Excellent written and oral communication skills