Product Launch Program Manager

On the Heels of Achieving 3X Growth, Virginia Transformer Is Hiring to Do It Again!

We’re strategically building our team for the next 3X growth cycle — a phase that is both intense and incredibly rewarding. We’re highly selective about who joins us because this journey isn’t for everyone.

If you have the drive, grit, technical expertise, and leadership capability to perform at a high level — and you want to grow your career 3X alongside the Company’s growth — we’d love to talk.

Virginia Transformer is the largest U.S.

-owned producer of power transformers in North America. For more than 50 years, we have grown through an unwavering commitment to engineering excellence, product quality, operational execution, and delivering for our customers.

As a privately held, organically growing company, we thrive on speed, innovation, accountability, and tenacity. Our transformers support critical infrastructure across utility, industrial, renewable energy, and data center markets throughout North America.

Virginia Transformer is seeking an experienced New Product Launch Program Manager to lead the introduction and industrialization of new products across the organization. Based onsite in Roanoke, Virginia, this role will coordinate launches from concept and design through engineering validation, sourcing, manufacturing readiness, production launch, and stabilization.

This highly visible, execution-focused leader will work across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Sales, Project Management, Finance, and Operations to ensure products launch safely, on time, within budget, at the required quality level, and with the capability to achieve production targets.

• Lead new product introduction programs from concept through full-scale production.
• Develop launch plans covering engineering, sourcing, tooling, manufacturing, quality, testing, training, capacity, cost, and customer requirements.
• Establish milestones, deliverables, owners, timelines, success criteria, and overall launch readiness.
• Lead cross-functional launch reviews, identify barriers early, and drive rapid resolution of critical issues.
• Maintain visibility of program status, risks, critical-path activities, and executive decisions.
• Partner with Electrical and Mechanical Engineering to ensure designs are manufacturable, scalable, cost-effective, and production-ready.
• Coordinate design reviews, manufacturing-readiness assessments, and DFMA activities.
• Ensure drawings, specifications, BOMs, routings, work instructions, and technical documentation are complete before launch.
• Drive closure of design issues from prototype, pilot, and initial production builds and manage engineering changes throughout launch.

• Lead readiness planning for new products and major changes, including processes, equipment, tooling, fixtures, layouts, labor, capacity, and work instructions.
• Coordinate prototype, pilot, pre-production, and initial production builds.
• Identify manufacturing constraints and corrective actions before ramp-up.
• Ensure production teams are trained and drive the transition from engineering development to stable, repeatable production.

• Partner with Supply Chain and Procurement to ensure materials and components support launch schedules.
• Identify long-lead, high-risk, and critical components early and track material readiness.
• Ensure supplier capability, capacity, quality, and delivery align with launch requirements.
• Support supplier qualification and sourcing strategies balancing cost, quality, availability, and continuity.

• Partner with Quality and Engineering to establish…