Product Line Program Manager - Tulsa

Job Description

Advanced understanding of project and program management processes, including scope, schedule, cost, resources, risk, quality, communication, stakeholder management, and change management.

Strong working knowledge of PLM, NPD/NPI, stage-gate governance, product release, and lifecycle decision processes.

Working knowledge of engineering, manufacturing operations, supply chain, procurement, quality systems, regulatory requirements, service readiness, and production readiness.

Knowledge of requirements management, Engineering Change Management, change control, configuration management, document control, and product data governance.

Ability to manage multiple complex programs, priorities, stakeholders, dependencies, and deliverables with limited supervision.

Ability to influence and coordinate cross-functional teams without direct authority, resolve conflict, negotiate commitments, and facilitate difficult conversations.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare executive-level summaries, gate-review packages, presentations, dashboards, and program reports.

Ability to identify program risks, schedule constraints, resource gaps, cost concerns, quality issues, and technical dependencies; develop mitigation plans and escalate appropriately.

Strong business and financial acumen, including the ability to understand budgets, cost targets, forecasts, business cases, and value-based portfolio tradeoffs.

Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications; experience with PLM, ERP, project management, scheduling, document-control, requirements, or reporting systems preferred.

Ability to interpret technical documents, drawings, specifications, requirements, bills of material, release documentation, quality records, and customer requirements.

May require travel to customer sites, supplier locations, field locations, manufacturing facilities, industry events, or other NOV locations.

Must maintain confidentiality and comply with all NOV safety, quality, business conduct, and HSE requirements.

Lead planning, coordination, execution, and closeout of complex cross-functional product development and New Product Introduction (NPI) programs from concept through commercial release and deployment.

Drive programs through all PLM and stage-gate milestones; establish gate plans, ensure required deliverables are complete, and secure timely reviews and approvals.

Coordinate Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Operations, Product Management, Finance, and other stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.

Develop and manage integrated schedules, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, action registers, risk registers, issue logs, and decision records.

Define and control program scope, requirements, budgets, cost targets, resources, quality objectives, and production-readiness criteria in alignment with business priorities.

Proactively identify execution constraints and roadblocks; lead mitigation, recovery, and corrective-action plans and escalate decisions when needed.

Facilitate program reviews, executive stage-gate reviews, decision meetings, and product release approvals; clearly communicate status, risks, opportunities, and required actions.

Drive accountability and alignment across functional organizations without relying on direct authority; resolve conflicts, negotiate commitments, and hold action owners accountable.

Coordinate requirements management, Engineering Change Management, change control, configuration management, technical documentation, and product release records.

Coordinate supply-chain, sourcing, procurement, manufacturing, quality, regulatory, service, and operational-readiness activities to support successful production launch.

Coordinate new product trials, customer or field deployments, feedback, lessons learned, and improvement actions in collaboration with product line and technical teams.

Develop and maintain program dashboards, KPIs, portfolio reports, and executive summaries covering schedule, cost, quality, risk, decisions, and time-to-market.

Manage and prioritize a portfolio of concurrent programs; identify resource conflicts…