Technical Implementation Manager, Manufacturing

What’s in it for you?

Opportunity To Unlock Your Creativity
Think of all the times you were held back from trying new ideas because you were boxed in by bureaucratic legacy processes or old school tactics. Having a growth mindset is deeply ingrained into our company culture since day 1 so Fictiv is an environment where you have the creative liberty and support of the team to try big bold ideas to achieve our sales and customer goals.

Opportunity To Grow Your Career
At Fictiv, you'll be surrounded by supportive teammates who will push you to be your best through their curiosity and passion.

Impact- 

At Fictiv, we’re building a company that is developing the operating system for sourcing custom mechanical parts. We already enjoy manufacturing and delivering highly complex, high quality parts for our Fortune 500 customers who are building the future with products like autonomous electric vehicles, surgical systems, and industrial robots. As we scale our business, we are looking to expand our growth within India.
In your role as Technical Program Manager, you will be working directly with our MPs, you’ll be using your engineering background, manufacturing process knowledge and management experience, to develop and implement effective and efficient program plans to ensure we’re executing programs within scope, budget and timing; while meeting or exceeding our customer’s expectations. You will also be the customer’s point of contact; you will drive scope clarity (internally and externally), issue resolution, stakeholder management and program success. You will be responsible for overseeing multiple programs across multiple regions, proactively managing risk, addressing any customer requests and coordinating across corresponding regional operations teams to keep programs on track and provide the corresponding program updates/status reports.
As an experienced member of the team, you will be following our defined processes and driving their use in a new region with new manufacturing partners. Additionally, you will actively identify areas for improvement in your workflow and in the systems used by the Technical Program Management team, and will drive those improvements through cross functional projects. You will also be working cross functionally to support the development of robust processes which will ensure the successful introduction of new service offerings that Fictiv launches to the public.
You will report to the Program Management Lead  with a dotted line reporting to GM-India
This role is based out of Pune/Kolhapur

Areas of Responsibility-

- Program Management – Manage projects with top-down oversight throughout entire execution to ensure success as defined by adherence to standards of scope, budget, and timeline.
- Program Planning - Develop robust project plans that meet the customer expectations, and coordinate various stakeholders throughout the program lifecycle.
- Program Risk Management - Identify risks, implement risk mitigation plans and coordinate with various stakeholders (internally and externally) in order to meet or exceed customer expectations.
- Project requirements and fulfillment needs - Identify customer and fulfillment requirements, address any open gaps per the program plan.
- MP Management and Relationship Building – Keep the internal stakeholders informed on the program status, support change requests, drive issue resolution and drive MP agreement/decision making to keep the program on track, provide solutions to customer’s pain points and help them succeed.
- Change Order Management – Ensure post-sale change requests from all stakeholders are evaluated, and appropriately addressed while mitigating any associated risks.
- Continuous Improvement – Identifying areas of improvement and driving tactical and strategic improvements to the Technical Program Management workflow.
- Communication Management - Communicate proactively with all involved personnel to provide encouragement, identify problems, create solutions, and implement efficiency improvements.
- Program Performance Monitoring - Monitor project progress continuously in alignment to the Program Management metrics, provide visibility to the leadership team and escalate when necessary. 

Qualification-

- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering (or equivalent) and 5+ years of equivalent work experience in a project management role within fast-paced development projects, working directly with MPs
- Strong team orientation & communication skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Fluent in written and spoken English, Marathi, Hindi with experience working in multinational environments.
- Background in working with a minimum of three of the following manufacturing processes:
- Casting – MUST
- CNC Machining - MUST
- Tooling – MUST
- Forging - MUST
- Sheet Metal Fabrication- Preferred
- Proven project management skills: scope, timing and quality management.
-Knowledge of Project management tools (MPP or similar) is a must.
- Good understanding of quality management, testing, sourcing, SCM management, logistics and finance.
- Experience working with multiple stakeholders, managing project requirements, aligning expectations, and maintaining project communications through a successful project completion.
- Experience in NPD & Mass Manufacture
- Good understanding of the PPAP,
- You are excellent with problem-solving skills.
- You are results-oriented.
- Possesses a good sense of urgency, demonstrated ability of owning and managing delivery schedules across tight deadlines.
- You are meticulous, detail-oriented, and have an inclination for documentation.
- You have a history of data-based decision making.
- Self-starter, manages time efficiently, able to complete work in a timely manner without active supervision.
- Adaptable and gritty - you can work with ambiguous or under-defined processes and while still being able to output work that meets the ultimate goals of the project.
- You’re able to see the benefit to systems that can be both repeatable and adaptable, and you’re able to improve the reliability of these systems while maintaining their flexibility.

Last updated on Aug 21, 2024