Technical Program Manager - Sensing

About This Role

This highly visible technical program manager role focuses on factory readiness for mass production, serving as the resident expert in manufacturing process and yields. Combining knowledge of module and component manufacturing, process integration, problem-solving, failure analysis, and process controls is essential to deliver results. The TPM will collaborate with the New Production Introduction group and a cross-functional team including Design, Supplier Quality, Test, Service, and Engineering to ensure top-quality products and services and drive excellence throughout the product life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Provide total ownership of factory output, yield, quality, and readiness to ramp volume
• Drive lessons learned into designs and use predictive methods to anticipate and avoid quality issues early in the development cycle
• Maintain open issues and resolve them prior to mass production
• Provide leadership and drive yield and operational excellence expectations with Contract Manufacturers (CMs) through direct interaction, continuous communication, and continuous improvement efforts
• Select best-in-class equipment efficiencies, UPH, MMR, and material usage, and drive and implement across vendors
• Drive continuous yield improvement activities with CMs
• Supervise CM performance through objective measurement systems, audits, and line verification
• Implement a communication plan, providing summary and corrective action plans through the life cycle of products
• Provide executive-level status reports on a weekly cadence
• Raise key concerns and options for resolutions to senior management
• Provide regular executive-level communication updates on the technical health of programs

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field
• 12+ years of experience providing technical support of high-volume consumer electronics
• Proven technical skills, including experience and thorough understanding of wafer level, component, PCBA, module assembly, test, pack-out processes, and process integration
• Hands-on experience in factory processes, with frequent time spent on the factory floor
• Highly motivated and able to drive issues to closure
• In-depth knowledge in quality methodologies with common tools, including process capability statistical analysis
• Skilled in DOE, FMEA, SPC, failure analysis, data analysis, and justification of specifications
• Understand tolerance stack-ups for assemblies and part level
• Excellent problem solver, using structured problem-solving methodology to assign root cause, plus develop and implement corrective and preventative actions
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to concisely understand and communicate issues, and lead the team to a solution