Program Manager

Job Description:

1. To strategise, organise, govern, and manage a project within a predetermined timeframe that is committed to customer satisfaction.
2. To successfully complete New Product Introduction (NPI) projects by meeting all specifications and requirements and advancing them towards mass production, including anticipating and mitigating potential risks that may negatively impact the projects.
3. To engage and work with customers on product specifications, requirements, costs, schedules, and quality.
4. To generate and provide quotations for tools and moulded parts, upon receipt of Request for Quotation (RFQ).
5. To collaborate internally with the tool designer and engineering team on design for manufacturing (DFM) and proactively manage program documentation, technical and engineering changes.
6. To update the status of ongoing programs to management.
7. To consistently pursue new customers.
8. To establish and nurture a robust and affirmative rapport with key customers to secure new and additional projects and strengthen the sales pipeline.

Requirements:

1. Degree or diploma in mechanical engineering/precision engineering.
2. Knowledge with practical experience in the field of plastic injection and injection tool fabrication, or mechanical product design.
3. Proficient in Microsoft Office suite of programs.
4. Good verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
5. Strong leadership to lead, guide, and inspire the project team to produce quality work and stay committed to all deliverables.
6. Business-oriented, meticulous, and cost-sensitive.
7. Ability to analyse, solve problems, and make decisions.
8. Strong organisational skills with a can-do attitude to always improve and initiate new ways of working to achieve results.