Program Manager Engineering - Optics (Finance)
Overview
We are seeking a full-time Program Manager Engineering in our Portland, OR location. In this role, you will be responsible for serving as a cross-functional leader accountable for ensuring excellence in product development and execution of R&D efforts. You will also proactively drive cross-functional, global collaboration across all organizations including, but not limited to Product Management, Product Engineering Teams, Product Technology Engineering, and Quality and Manufacturing.
Essential Functions
- Leads effective meetings to drive cross-functional, global team effort toward program success while identifying and resolving conflicts within the team and escalates to senior management as necessary
- Communicates to the Executive Sponsors, Product Managers, Product Teams, Manufacturing Teams, and Sourcing Teams to ensure all parties are aware of project milestones, risks, changes, and key deliverables
- Organizes, plans, and directs program schedules, budgets, and risk mitigation action
- Manages the coordination, communication, and negotiation of changes between Product Managers and the Development Teams
- Coordinates overall system milestones, builds, and beta testing
- Serves as the primary contact for Product Management and Quality Teams, coordinating first level FQC and stakeholder issue triage
- Develops and implements programs of continuous improvement throughout the team's product life cycle to ensure cost, quality, and customer satisfaction goals are defined and achieved
- Improves program management tools and standard processes for Garmin products
- Acts as the primary point of escalation in the event of a customer or Garmin-driven issue
- Reviews new programs to ensure that business requirements and capabilities are fully communicated, documented, and approved by all key stakeholders
- Demonstrates a deep and working understanding of Garmin's business operations and departmental interdependence
- Provides reliable solutions to a wide range of difficult problems using sound problem solving techniques
- Utilizes advanced program management skills on complex Optical Technology programs to ensure communication of scope, milestones, risks and decisions.
- Coordinate overall optical system milestones, builds and beta testing.
- Develop and implement a program of continuous improvement throughout Optical Technology team's product life cycle to ensure cost, quality and customer satisfaction goals are defined and achieved.
- Improve the program management tools and standard processes for Garmin Optics products.
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Management AND a minimum of 10 years of relevant program or project management experience
- Excellent academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.0 as a general rule)
- Demonstrated ability to lead a team to successfully execute projects of any scale or complexity and bring together cross functional teams for effective problem resolution
- Demonstrated strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
- Must be positive, detail oriented, organized, team oriented and a driven problem solver, multi-tasker, and self-starter with the ability to prioritize and lead in a fast paced, deadline-driven environment
- Previous experience managing multiple projects simultaneously
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Microsoft Word, Excel, Project and PowerPoint)
- Master's Degree in Engineering or Management
- Outstanding academics (cumulative GPA greater than or equal to 3.5)
- Previous global program development and program management experience
- Knowledge and experience working with cross functional and cross site teams
Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran's status, age or disability.
This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits
