Product Design Engineering Program Manager
Apple 🇺🇸 Cupertino, California, United States of America
The Product Design Engineering Program Manager will manage the development and implementation process for mechanical components, focusing on engineering, development planning, and validation cycles. This role involves engaging with collaborative engineering teams to balance competing objectives and meet aggressive timelines.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- BS Engineering degree required
- 1-4+ years of project management experience
- Excellent communication, organizational, presentation and leadership skills
- Self-motivated and proactive with demonstrated creative and critical thinking capabilities
- Understands and deals well with rapid development cycles; remains flexible when faced with uncertainty and changes in direction
- Knowledge of product development processes as well as an understanding of manufacturing processes, mechanical engineering fundamentals
Key Skills
About Apple
We’re a diverse collective of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. And the same innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it. This is where your work can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. Visit apple.com/careers to learn more.
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