ProgramManager

Who We Are: Challenge Manufacturing’s mission is to manufacture with operational excellence by empowering our employee-owners. As a leading tier 1 supplier of complex metal assemblies for the global automotive industry, we drive innovative solutions for future mobility. We believe the best ideas come from individual unique perspectives. These ideas combined with the teamwork of industry leaders allow us to accomplish any challenge. Our team members take pride in the work we do and embody our core values of safety, ownership, and teamwork every day; they are the true driving force in our operations. Challenge is proud to be one of the largest employee-owned automotive companies in North America. One of the many benefits of joining the Challenge team is the ESOP program. This program allows Challenge to give shares of the Company to all employee-owners annually. These shares are an additional retirement benefit that will continue to grow during your time at Challenge. Being part of an ESOP means our employee-owners share in Challenge’s success! Challenge is #QualityDriven and #PeoplePowered! Who We Want: The Program Manager acts in a leadership capacity to ensure that all aspects of the program management launch process meet internal and external customer requirements. What You'll Do: Reporting level program status updates to the executive team. Including timing, quality and cost KPI’s Develop effective KPI’s to monitor teams launch status and performance. Provide project leadership and drive all aspects of program launch Lead a cross functional team to bring product design to production Serve as key customer contact for engineering, quality and launch teams Ensure customer deliverables and program timing are met Establish and maintain an open issue report and timeline Establish and maintain program files and retain in an orderly manner Facilitate and manage scope change activity Minimize project risk and inform Management appropriately Facilitates lessons-learned ses