# Hardware NPI Program Manager

Chefman & CHEF iQ is looking for a Hardware NPI Project Manager to own our products from first sketch to store shelf. You'll be the person who keeps engineering, design, and business all pointed in the same direction - the one who can walk into an engineering review and ask the right technical question, then walk into an executive update ten minutes later and explain exactly what it means for the launch date. This isn't a role where you sit above the work. You're in it - reviewing drawings, understanding design constraints, catching the problem before it becomes a delay, and pushing a project from a rough concept all the way through production and onto a retailer's shelf. What you'll actually be doing: Own the schedule. Not just track it - build it, defend it, and know exactly where the risk is before anyone else does. Be the translator. Take a complex engineering tradeoff and explain it clearly to people who don't live in CAD software, and vice versa. Get hands-on when it matters. Review drawings, understand specs, and speak the language of the engineers you're working with. Run point with our overseas manufacturing partners, keeping quality, timing, and cost aligned. Brief senior

- **Id**: 841394
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/chefman-hardware-npi-program-manager>
- **Role**: Management
- **Role family**: Management
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Mahwah, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-01-12T15:35:27Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-26
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T04:52:54Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 306
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2284
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Home Appliances

## Company

- **Id**: 673521
- **Name**: Chefman
- **Domain**: chefman.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/chefman>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: C
- **Score**: 64
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0.583
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.083
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 36
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 130000
- **Max**: 135000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 135000

## Technologies

- **SolidWorks** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ghost
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale, company_stale
- **Days open**: 305

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T21:56:51Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 4
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.131
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 306
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, ghost, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 135000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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