Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Senior Leader

Role Overview: This role is the single global integrator responsible for endtoend commercialization and manufacturing launch readiness.

This leader drives a unified crossfunctional launch enginespanning product management engineering supply chain operations quality marketing and regional manufacturing teamsto ensure new products enter the market on time at scale at target cost and at target quality.

This role owns the global NPI launch framework execution governance manufacturing readiness standards and crossregional integration. Ensures manufacturability scalability supply assurance and product robustness are fully validated before launch while preserving regional execution ownership and plantlevel accountability.

Core Responsibilities:

1. Global NPI & Launch Program Leadership

• Lead global crossfunctional NPI programs from concept through EVT/DVT/PVT and mass production.
• Own the endtoend NPI launch framework including phasegates milestones scorecards readiness criteria and governance cadence.
• Ensure alignment between product roadmaps engineering release schedules manufacturing readiness requirements and business case targets.
• Run global launch reviews across North America EMEA and APAC to drive synchronized execution and issue resolution.

2. Manufacturing Readiness & Launch Execution

• Lead global readiness reviews covering tooling capacity labor DFM/DFA maturity yield expectations and factory validation.
• Ensure APQP/PPAP readiness BOM stability work instructions process capability and manufacturing signoff before release.
• Coordinate closely with regional manufacturing engineering teams maintaining global governance while respecting local execution ownership.
• Proactively drive risk identification escalation mitigation and crossregional alignment on launch blockers.

3. Supply Chain Quality & Reliability Alignment

• Ensure supply chain readiness including risk assessments dualsource strategies component qualification and leadtime stability.
• Collaborate with Quality Reliability and Supplier Quality Engineering to validate robustness enforce release discipline and minimize early field failures (EFFR).
• Ensure scalability and operational robustness are designed in early not inspected in late.

4. CrossFunctional Integration

• Act as the primary integrator between Advanced Manufacturing Engineering (AME) Product Design Engineering Process Engineering Supply Chain & Procurement Quality & SQE and Plant Operations.
• Ensure manufacturability serviceability and costdown pathways are embedded early in the development cycle.
• Partner with field engineering and customerexperience teams to ensure earlyaccess customers receive seamless deployment support and rapid feedback loops.

5. Global Standards Best Practices & Continuous Improvement

• Define maintain and institutionalize global NPI standards including APQP PPAP tooling readiness validation frameworks and launch maturity models.
• Standardize tools dashboards operating mechanisms and global governance processes across the product portfolio.
• Drive continuous improvement cycles capturing lessons learned postlaunch (30/60/90 days) and evolving the global launch playbook.

6. Organizational Leadership

• Build and lead a global NPI & Launch Readiness organization distributed across regions.
• Champion operational excellence crossteam collaboration transparency and predictable execution.
• Influence at all levels with strong executive presence and clear communication.

Success Metrics

• Ontime onbudget launches with high manufacturability maturity.
• Firstpass success on factory builds and validation gates.
• Supply chain readiness with minimal shortages allocation risks or escalations.
• Strong earlyfield performance (low EFFR low RMA).
• Stable ramptovolume manufacturing and predictable yield.
• High customer satisfaction in earlyaccess and generalavailability phases.
• Adoption and continuous improvement of global standards and playbooks.