Program Manager

Description

Position Summary

This role will oversee and lead new program launches, continuous improvement initiatives, APQP disciplines across all Arrow Off Road operations.

Pay Rate : $130K-$140K Duration : Permanent Placement  Location : Guelph, ON

Work Schedule : 5 days on-site

Primary Responsibilities :

• Manages a team responsible for the design and implementation of manufacturing processes, equipment, or plants.
• Responsible for operational excellence via efficient plant design.
• Ensures continuous improvement in process, cost, quality, and production.
• Manages all engineering projects and resolves engineering problems.
• Familiar with a variety of the fabrication field's concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Leads and directs the work of others. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
• Provides technical leadership in directing the efforts of cross functional engineering team in the development and release of all relevant engineering deliverables in compliance with the product development process and / or customer expectations.
• Ensures engineering timing plans, defect / issues list, risk assessments, lessons learned are created and maintained and provides engineering status for project reviews (e.g. APQP milestones, etc.) according to program timing for all assigned projects.
• Modifying design of existing plant layout based on internal / external customer requirements.
• Initiating and driving justification for upgrades to processing, equipment and WIP, to enhance performance of system and value to the customer.
• Provide expertise in industrial engineering and process design to other departments.

Understanding of the concepts of synchronous manufacturing and lean production manufacturing methodologies and the ability to formulate and implement a tactical plan.

Job Requirements Education, Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities