Technical Program Manager, Manufacturing Engineering

As a Technical Program Manager, you will lead cross-functional programs behind factory growth, including facility construction, equipment installation, capacity planning, and production scaling. You will connect factory-floor execution with long-range manufacturing strategy, helping teams make informed tradeoffs and move programs through commissioning into stable production.

Responsibilities

• Lead facility construction, equipment installation, and manufacturing infrastructure programs from scope definition through procurement, installation, commissioning, and production readiness.
• Build integrated plans for schedule, budget, resources, dependencies, risks, decisions, and execution milestones across concurrent manufacturing programs.
• Coordinate Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Quality, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Design Engineering, contractors, vendors, landlords, consultants, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Establish governance, operating rhythms, and stage gates for facility and manufacturing investments, including readiness plans for pilot builds and transitions to stable operations
• Own factory capacity-model aggregation across products, production lines, and facilities; standardize assumptions for demand, takt time, yield, labor, utilization, downtime, and equipment constraints.
• Translate capacity and growth models into recommendations on facility footprint, equipment investment, staffing, and production strategy; surface bottlenecks and drive timely tradeoff decisions.
• Track outcomes including throughput, labor productivity, equipment utilization, first-pass yield, cost of poor quality, schedule adherence, and capital efficiency.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in technical program management, manufacturing engineering, industrial engineering, operations, facilities, equipment engineering, or a related field.
• A bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations, business, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional manufacturing, facilities, construction, or equipment-installation programs through commissioning or production launch.
• Experience developing production capacity models, labor plans, scaling plans, or long-range operational strategies.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing metrics, including takt time, throughput, labor utilization, yield, cycle time, downtime, and capacity constraints.
• Strong program-management skills across planning, budgeting, risk and dependency management, and executive communication; able to turn detailed analysis into clear recommendations.
• A hands-on approach and willingness to work in manufacturing and construction environments, using Excel or Google Sheets, project-planning software, and presentation tools.