Manufacturing Program Manager, Sustaining

Compensation Range: $ - $ range per year.

Every day, your work supports the advancement of medical technology.

NDI is the recognized global leader and industry pioneer of Optical and Electromagnetic tracking technology. Backed by decades of innovation and expertise, we’re the strategic partner of choice for the world’s top medical device OEMs, advancing the development of OEM navigation platforms. Leading OEM navigation platforms rely on our technologies for accuracy and reliability across demanding applications, and as a strategic partner, we support them from concept through integration to commercialization.

Whether you're designing technology, supporting customers, or enabling the teams behind them, your work matters. Every role at NDI plays a part in shaping the future of medical technology innovation.

As a Manufacturing Program Manager – Sustaining(internally called the Program Manager-Sustaining) at NDI, you’ll lead cross-functional operational lifecycle management for products and critical components after development handoff and throughout their supported commercial life. You’ll bring together Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Planning, Quality, Service, and external manufacturing partners to maintain manufacturing and material readiness, implement product changes, manage lifecycle risks, and support continuity of supply.

Your work will help ensure NDI can continue to manufacture, test, release, repair, service, and support products safely, compliantly, and predictably throughout their lifecycle.

• Lead the operational handoff of applicable products and critical components from Pilot/Commercialization into sustaining operations, ensuring responsibilities, risks, and open actions are clearly transitioned.
• Coordinate cross-functional sustaining programs involving manufacturing readiness, material planning, suppliers, quality, documentation, service, and external manufacturing partners.
• Maintain visibility of lifecycle risks and drive appropriate functional ownership, mitigation, escalation, and follow-through.
• Coordinate implementation planning for engineering changes, supplier changes, alternate components, process changes, and other approved product or manufacturing changes.
• Partner with Supply Chain and Planning to address obsolescence, long-lead and constrained materials, sole-source exposure, and other supply-continuity risks.
• Lead or facilitate operational reviews with subcontract manufacturers, focusing on readiness, delivery risk, manufacturing performance, quality trends, open actions, and change implementation.
• Lead cross-functional planning for component obsolescence, last-time buys, and product or component end-of-life activities.
• Provide Operations leadership with clear visibility of program health, significant risks, decisions required, and mitigation or recovery actions.
• Support compliance by adhering to applicable regulatory and quality standards and established quality-system requirements.

• Post-secondary education in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, Life Sciences, or a related technical discipline is preferred, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in medical device manufacturing, regulated manufacturing, electronics or PCBA manufacturing, or another complex technical operations environment.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating cross-functional programs involving Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Planning, Quality, and external manufacturing partners.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing readiness, material planning, engineering change control, supplier management, design transfer, and…