Technical Program Manager, Depth

Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming extraordinary products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish!

Description

Our team works in conjunction with the New Production Introduction (NPI) group as well as other multi-functional teams across Design, Supplier Quality, Test, and Global Supply Chain Managers to ensure top quality products and drive perfection into what we do.

Responsibilities

• Work with suppliers and internal multi-functional teams, exhibiting leadership to drive yield, efficiency, and other target production metrics; operational excellence in bringing-up scalable and sustainable mass-production process
• Areas of ownership include factory set-up of associated optical module manufacturing, including SMT, Assembly, and Test processes
• Executive-level status reports including build readiness review (BRR), new product review (NPR), etc
• Analyze data from factory, customer, field to develop action plans and decisions based on the data
• Drive lessons learned into designs and use predictive methods to anticipate and avoid issues early in the development cycle
• Call out key concerns and options timely for resolutions to senior management
• Travel internationally approximately 20-30%

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of technical experience in a high-tech industry, with solid understanding of manufacturing and quality engineering
• BS in a related Engineering discipline

Preferred Qualifications

• MS or PhD in a related Engineering discipline
• Experience and knowledge of statistic and data analysis tools such as Tableau, JMP, SPC, FMEA, DOE, TA, DFM, FlexSIM
• Meaningful experience/background in introducing products into manufacturing, and/or high volume production with Asia-based manufacturing suppliers
• Experience in ramping optical modules into high volume production a large plus
• Desire and ability for problem solving and debugging
• Ability to work with a wide range of people with varying degrees of experience
• Excellent project management skills Program / Project Management experience preferred.
• Strong organizational, documentation and presentation/communication skills