Technical Program Manager

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Technical Program Manager

This Technical Program Manager role leads cross‑functional development programs across the full product lifecycle, acting as the primary customer contact for complex engineering projects. The position drives project planning, execution, and financial performance while coordinating with engineering, manufacturing, and support teams to deliver high‑quality products on time and within budget across multiple industries, including aerospace, defense, advanced computing, telecommunications, industrial, medical, and semiconductor equipment.

• Serve as the primary day‑to‑day contact for customers, managing development activities for small to large programs with varying complexity and multiple challenges.
• Lead cross‑functional development teams to meet design requirements, program budgets, schedules, and quality targets while ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Interact directly with customers on schedule, quality, cost, engineering changes, and evolving business conditions, ensuring clear communication and responsiveness.
• Generate proposed Statements of Work, including detailed project schedules, deliverables, dependencies, and resource needs, incorporating input from relevant stakeholders.
• Prepare bids and proposals that are market competitive and profitable, and present them effectively to customers.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans covering schedule, resources, and financials, and ensure adherence throughout the program lifecycle.
• Identify, document, and manage changes in customer requirements, scope, design requirements, and internal resource needs, escalating issues as appropriate.
• Coordinate program deliverables with internal new product introduction and manufacturing organizations to ensure smooth design transfer and production readiness.
• Analyze and manage program financial performance, including budgets, forecasts, and profitability, to meet company objectives.
• Update program management tools on a weekly basis to support resource planning and to predict financial performance at a program and portfolio level.
• Identify and respond to new business opportunities within existing and new customers, including the need for quotations for new opportunities and scope changes.
• Develop a strong understanding of customers’ products, applications, strategies, and requirements to support product launches and ongoing business development.
• Communicate project needs to development resource managers for technical and business resources, highlighting areas of concern and ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Assist other development team members as needed to ensure customer needs and business unit objectives are met, bringing issues forward for escalation when required.
• Collaborate with manufacturing support groups to understand production environment requirements and ensure development activities align with manufacturing capabilities.
• Promote Design for Excellence (DFX) principles with customers and internal teams to improve product quality, manufacturability, and lifecycle performance.
• Interface with customer and supplier engineering groups to convey technical data, resolve technical issues, and support collaborative problem‑solving.
• Lead or participate in continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring complete documentation and conducting follow‑up reviews and presentations with the team.
• Monitor all phases of assigned programs from award through completion, directing necessary changes to enhance team performance and program outcomes.
• Manage individuals assigned to the program, providing direction, feedback, and support to build team capacity and deliver results.
• Act as an expert risk manager by identifying, assessing, and mitigating program risks and implementing appropriate contingency plans.
• Articulate a compelling vision and strategy for programs that motivates and aligns cross‑functional teams toward common goals.
• Support select inter‑business unit activities, contributing to broader organizational initiatives and collaboration across sites.
• Review contracts, terms, and conditions with oversight, and attend and participate in…