Product Line Program Manager - Tulsa

Job Requirements

• 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 escape 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 elevate 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 and recommend sequencing, tradeoffs, or escalation based on business value and execution risk.
• Continuously improve PLM governance, stage-gate criteria, program-management tools, reporting practices, workflows, and cross-functional communication.
• Provide guidance, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to developing project or program…