Manager, NPI CapEx Engineering Program Manager

The manager of the NPI CapEx EPM is responsible for coordinating equipment requirements between Engineering and contract manufacturers in Asia to support engineering prototype builds and development through the entire product life-cycle (up to hand-off to mass production). This team is responsible for coordinating with cross-functional partners, to ensure program equipment needs are met on schedule and at the best cost. Program managers are confident leaders capable of working with multi-functional teams to identify risks, drive cost and budget opportunities, explore solutions, reach consensus and implement mitigations quickly. This requires an in-depth understanding of new product development and manufacturing processes. An Apple EPM must respond quickly to changes to the overall goals, schedule, and/or architecture. EPMs must be confident leaders capable of working with cross-functional teams to identify risks, explore solutions, reach consensus and implement mitigations as quickly and efficiently as possible. This manager must be able to communicate risks, tradeoffs and solutions to the LOB leadership when it comes to Capex and NPI line readiness as well as rationalize budgets and cost opportunities to reduce overall NPI spend. As this requires an in-depth understanding of development and manufacturing process. The NPI CapEx PM also creates an overall project budget and tracks expenditures in a dynamic and ever changing design and schedule atmosphere to make sure the team stays within that budget. The team’s role includes the following main duties: - Drive cross-functional teams towards consensus of requirements. - Manage and drive in-region resources at contract manufactures (typical in Asia) to drive procurement activities on Apple’s behalf. - Build overall project budget, compile budget requests, and generate capitalization plan based on project schedules. - Enable equipment reuse and optimize schedules and NPI line planning to minimize overall budget requirements. - Calculate return on investment of change in process/equipment requested by OEM or internal teams. - Provide monthly budget updates and capitalization plan. - Succinctly communicate overall equipment status to the management team. - Work with new product teams to support product launch and sustaining activities. - Understand the impact of cycle time changes and be responsible for adjusting forecasts accordingly. - Work with Engineering and Operations team to balance tradeoffs of design requirements and operation efficiencies needed for mass production. - Verify demands and lead the business team to ensure equipment is tracked to delivery. - Work with appropriate business and procurement teams to ensure support from vendors regarding setup, installation, repairs and maintenance. - Respond quickly to changes to the overall goals, schedule, and/or architecture.