Product Design Engineering Program Manager

- Support product definition and drive closure of architecture and technical opens in early stages of a project. - Establish and contribute to program feature baseline, scheduling, budget, critical paths, and technology risk areas for execution through final delivery of the product - Identify and highlight technical risk areas and mitigation strategies in partnership with impacted teams to help drive them to closure - Enable the development effort by creating and monitoring an efficient, detailed process - Drive drawing releases and tooling kickoff with PD Engineering and the vendors to meet aggressive schedules - Plan and execute prototype builds by directing OEM partners - Lead cross functional communication between project teams and external vendors - Drive challenging activities to meet overall project objectives including calling and running meetings collaborating with diverse teams - Offer multiple levels of status across a wide spectrum of individual contributors to executive management via written and verbal communication