Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

·         Manages all aspects of new programs including, but not limited to, personnel management, project management, resource allocation, and continuous improvement efforts.

·         Prioritizes, coordinates and facilitates all project activities to ensure that all projects are completed on schedule, within budget and are executed to customer’s satisfaction.

·         Maintains constant communication with other engineering, tool making, manufacturing, and quality team members, as well as frequent communication with commercial team, customers, and upper management.

·         Primary areas of responsibility include the following areas:  Cost Estimating both piece price and tooling, Program Management, Mold Design and Build, Mold Testing, Part Inspection, Data Analysis, Mold Grooming, and Validation Submissions.

·         Facilitates weekly engineering team meetings and ensure timely updates to internal GYR project management system as well as communicate project status updates to external customers.

·         Resolves open issues in all weekly team meetings, design reviews, and Preliminary Quality Acceptance Requirements (PQAR) meetings.

·         Manage all design review meetings to ensure proper company-wide attendance, adherence to company tooling standards, documentation control, and coordination of follow-up activities.

·         Assist in the development and improvement of systems for project management that will improve customer communication, increase resource utilization, and reduce lead times.

·         Assist in the identification and selection of outside tooling vendors and resources when required.

·         Focus departmental and plant-wide efforts towards continuous improvement in the areas of labor reduction, profitability, scientific molding, quality improvements, DOE’s, capability studies, process optimization & repeatability and meeting all ISIR/PPAP/Submission dates.

·         Responsible for the training, development and performance evaluations of engineering personnel.

·         Perform other duties as may be required or requested.