Manager, Strategic NPI Manufacturing

To identify, standardize, deploy NPI best practices, among businesss units (BU) and factories, to align NPIs with business goals. Ensure success launch and flawless ramp of critical NPI programs from NPI to production in terms of product quality and time to market.

Responsibilities:

• Support on the strategic manufacturing direction

  • NPI standardization on best practices development

  • Escalation for support from BU: PM and engineering

• Flawless transition from NPI kick off (KO) to ramp per plan

  • Monitoring of program progress for any stoppers and adnormality

  • Proper execution on the phase / gate review/exit with defined gate review meeting

  • Ensure critical program major milestones happening in factories through on site witness

  • Hands on support with local MSR for any immediate risk mitigation

• Deployment and execution of MRM process

  • Line start readiness review

  • Process qualification

  • Jig and Fixture Readiness

  • Tester readiness

  • DFM/DFT review and JIRA log/status tracking

  • Build Report readiness and review

• Identifying further improvement opportunities on existing processes

  • BU PDP process

  • Ops MRM process

  • Factory NPI process

  • Material driven process

  • DFM/DFT process

  • Shift left

• Document standardization of daily communication tools for NPI build execution within fatory:

  • NPI program master list: include the detailed information on official kicked off NPI, team members from factory/BU and  phases timeline etc

  • Factory Build plan: align the start/end plan with all the functional support like SMT, Manual insertion and casing, F5/F10a and full blast etc

Experience & Skillsets:

• University graduate major on manufacturing, mechanical or industrial engineering

• Experience: 10+ working experience in factory

• Specific skills: Program Management Professional (PMP)

• Personal characteristics: Good communication, teamwork and adaptability

• Certifications: PMP (optional)

• Travel to AE factory sites frequently.