Sr Staff Engineer, Program​/Project Management-Risk Management & QA

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Texas City:  Richardson Summary The Manager of Portfolio Manufacturing Risk & Technical Task Force is a strategic, cross-functional leadership position responsible for overseeing the full manufacturing risks across all active hardware programs, projects, and products. Rather than focusing on a single customer or dedicated product line, this leader operates as the central Manufacturing Risk Dashboard Owner, possessing an absolute, bird's-eye view of the entire operational portfolio.

The primary mission is to spot cross-program similarities, detect systemic patterns of risk, and establish comprehensive manufacturing standardization. Operating with broad systemic authority, this role is responsible for triggering macro-level process improvement projects and mobilizing technical Task Forces to intercept and resolve critical manufacturing or process excursions before they threaten high-volume production milestones.

Detailed Description
1. Portfolio Risk Dashboards & Pattern Recognition Dashboard Ownership:
Architect, own, and maintain the master Manufacturing Risk Dashboard, providing corporate and operational leadership with real-time visibility into active risk thresholds across all program portfolios.

Systemic Similarity Analysis:
Analyze cross-program manufacturing variables to identify similarities, parallel failure modes, and recurring risk behaviors across distinct customer pipelines and product typologies.

Predictive Metric Tracking:
Aggregately track NUDD (New, Unique, Different, Difficult) vectors, golden pFMEAs, and Critical-to-Quality (CTQ) trends to identify systemic engineering blind spots before physical prototyping commences.
2. Standardization & Macro Project Inception Process Standardization:
Synthesize localized risk lessons into enterprise-wide manufacturing standards, ensuring uniform pFMEA controls, custom assembly rules, and test coverage parameters are mandated across all production networks.

Macro Project Triggering:
Initiate and champion wide-scale, structural process improvement or tooling optimization projects when dashboard data indicates a recurring risk pattern across multiple independent product lines.

Lessons-Learned Loop:
Ensure post-mortem analysis data is standardly infused back into early co-development frameworks run by Front-End, Back-End, and Test engineering teams.
3. Task Force Activation & Emergency Escalation Task Force Mobilization:
Serve as the executive authority to instantly trigger and assemble high-urgency, cross-functional engineering Task Forces when critical, cross-cutting manufacturing risks breach dashboard thresholds.

Crisis Command Coordination:
Provide high-level oversight to active crisis teams, tracking micro-milestones and resolution trajectories in automated systems (e.g., Jira) without getting bogged down in single-account administration.

Structured Containment:
Enforce strict macro containment directives, including cross-portfolio material purges or floor alerts if a localized component anomaly poses an exposure risk to parallel programs.
4. Cross-Functional Engineering Orchestration Front-End Matrix Interfacing:
Partner with the Front-End Senior Manager to audit portfolio-wide SMT assembly variables, tracking recurring large-form-factor BGA warpage and reflow optimization trends.

Back-End Assembly Alignment:
Collaborate with the Back-End Senior Manager to assess systemic robotic cell defects, torque assembly constraints, and common rack-level cooling loop integration pain points.

Test Infrastructure Interfacing:
Engage with the Test Senior Manager to ensure portfolio-wide test diagnostic scripts (ICT/FCT/SLT) adapt to neutralize escape risks identified via dashboard tracking.#HPS-NA Knowledge/Skills/Competencies Manufacturing Portfolio

Experience:

6+ years of specialized experience in high-tech electronic manufacturing, operations data science, or NPI systems management, with a clear history of tracking multi-program portfolios rather than isolated lines.

Analytical & Dashboard Fluency:
Advanced proficiency designing or managing complex engineering metrics dashboards (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, Jira Query Language, or parallel automated manufacturing databases) to isolate systemic similarities and defect correlations.

Methodological Mastery:
Deep foundational expertise in pFMEA structures, NUDD risk analysis frameworks, CTQ parameters, statistical process control (SPC), and structured crisis problem-solving methodologies (8D,…