Technical Program Manager - Product Operations

Role summary

Manufacturing and program leadership

• Drive contract manufacturer preparation for pre-production builds.
• Develop, document, optimize, and validate production processes.
• Implement technologies that improve production quality, capacity, and efficiency.
• Set standard practices and independently assess impacts on design approaches, parameters, and final products.
• Provide direction, mentorship, and resources to engineering groups, project leaders, and factory technicians.
• Lead engineering projects and participate in planning major sub-projects.

Engineering delivery and reporting

• Provide early and ongoing manufacturing input to ensure new products are mechanically manufacturable.
• Support products from concept through repeat manufacturing and end of life, including complex testing, production support, and failure analysis.
• Develop complex processes to improve quality and efficiency and procedures to test and evaluate upcoming products.
• Specify tests, compile data, and recommend product design changes and final assembly standards using DOE and statistical analysis.
• Provide regular VP-level communication on technical program health.

Minimum qualifications

• 10 or more years of experience in engineering and manufacturing.
• Validated experience supporting new product launches to mass production from a mechanical, systems engineering, or product development perspective.
• Solid understanding of DFM, DOE, and SPC techniques.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 50%.
• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field.

Preferred qualifications

• New Product Introduction and Manufacturing Operations experience; leadership of ME, EE, TE, or DFX engineering teams; and international OEM partner experience are preferred.
• Leadership in matrix organizations, cost reduction, project management, engineering design, DFM/DFx, and tolerance stack-ups are preferred.
• GD&T, JMP, Minitab, Six Sigma, a master’s degree, and effective communication in a worldwide environment are listed as a plus or preferred.

Accessibility

• The posting references accessibility in Apple’s workplace but does not specify a remote, hybrid, or in-person work arrangement.