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Establish clear commitments, action owners, due dates, and escalation paths.\n\nFacilitate cross-functional decision-making and document key program assumptions, decisions, approvals, and changes.\n\nPrepare concise, professional program status reports and presentations covering timing, cost, quality, technical status, risks, decisions, and required management support.\n\nCustomer and Stakeholder Management\nServe as the primary customer program interface and coordinate customer communications across commercial, technical, quality, timing, and launch topics in partnership with the appropriate functional representatives.\n\nCoordinate customer meetings, submissions, portal responses, deliverables, and approvals, ensuring commitments are understood and completed on time.\n\nCollaborate with the Sales Account Manager and cross-functional team to support RFQ responses, including feasibility, timing, technical content, investment, piece price, risks, and customer-offer preparation.\n\nMaintain effective communication with Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Sales, Finance, Supply Chain, and other stakeholders across applicable regions and sites.\n\nIntegrated Planning, Risk, and Escalation\nDevelop and maintain an integrated cross-functional program master timeline containing customer, product, process, tooling, validation, purchasing, supplier, quality, logistics, and launch milestones.\n\nIdentify critical-path activities, dependencies, resource constraints, and schedule deviations, and coordinate practical recovery plans.\n\nMaintain an active program risk, opportunity and issue register with impact, likelihood, mitigation actions, responsible owners, due dates, and escalation plans.\n\nIdentify deviations from approved timing, cost, quality, technical, and resource objectives and promptly escalate significant risks with clearly defined recovery recommendations.\n\nIdentify unresolved gaps and escalate them to the appropriate functional management.\n\nFinancial and Commercial Management\nMonitor program financial performance against the approved business case, including development expense, prototype costs, tooling investment, capital expenditure, piece cost, and projected gross margin.\n\nCoordinate with Sales, Finance, Engineering, Purchasing, Costing, and Operations to identify financial variances and implement or escalate recovery actions.\n\nCoordinate tooling and material procurement, prototype delivery, production-tooling commitments, and related customer invoicing for pre-production expenses.\n\nSupport commercial impacts, customer negotiations, and recovery actions associated with scope changes, timing changes, engineering changes, canceled or obsolete materials, premium freight, and other program impacts.\n\nChange Management\nLead cross-functional evaluation of customer and internal engineering changes, including effects on product performance, validation, tooling, manufacturing process, timing, investment, piece price, inventory, logistics, and program risk.\n\nEnsure changes are documented, internally approved, commercially addressed when applicable, communicated to affected functions, submitted through required customer portals, and implemented through the appropriate change-control process.\n\nMaintain traceability of open and approved changes, implementation timing, cost recovery, and affected deliverables.\n\nAPQP, Product Development, and Launch\nCoordinate with responsible functional owners to ensure DFMEAs, PFMEAs, Process Flow Diagrams, Control Plans, validation plans and reports, PPAP documentation, and other required APQP deliverables are completed, reviewed, approved, and submitted in accordance with customer and internal requirements.\n\nLead regular cross-functional APQP meetings and drive internal and customer-related open issues to timely closure.\n\nCoordinate manufacturing readiness, supplier readiness, validation completion, packaging, logistics, capacity confirmation, PPAP, launch containment, and production-ramp activities.\n\nEnsure unresolved launch or handoff items have documented owners, due dates, risk controls, and closure plans.\n\nLead formal program closeout, including confirmation of deliverables, financial status, outstanding claims, lessons learned, and transfer of continuing responsibilities to serial-production owners.\n\nCompliance and General Responsibilities\nComply with all applicable Hutchinson health, safety, environmental, quality, information-security, and business-conduct policies and requirements.\n\nPerform other duties consistent with the responsibilities and level of the position, as assigned.\n\nParticipates in, understands, supports, and adheres to all Safety and Quality policies and requirements.\n\nEDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in engineering, or a related technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.\n\nAt least five years of experience in automotive product development, manufacturing, engineering, quality, commercial, or program management.\n\nDemonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams.\n\nWorking knowledge of APQP, PPAP, product and process validation, engineering change management, and automotive launch processes.\n\nExperience communicating directly with automotive OEM or Tier 1 customers.\n\nAbility to interpret technical drawings, specifications, cost information, validation results, and program financial data.\n\nAbility to manage multiple priorities, recognize critical-path risks, and drive closure without direct supervisory authority.\n\nAbility to communicate technical, commercial, and program information effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with antivibration, chassis, powertrain, elastomer, metal, plastic, mechatronic, or related automotive products and manufacturing processes.\n\nFamiliarity with AIAG guidance and IATF-based automotive quality processes.\n\nPMP, PMI, or equivalent program-management education or certification.\n\nPrevious automotive manufacturing launch experience.\n\nExperience working directly with Hyundai and/or Korean Tier 1 automotive customers and/or experience managing programs involving global automotive customers and cross-regional teams is preferred.\n\nProfessional proficiency in Korean sufficient to conduct customer meetings, review business and technical communications, and coordinate program activities is preferred due to regular interaction with Korean-speaking customer and global-team stakeholders.\n\nCERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:\nValid Driver’s License\nSUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:\nThis position has no direct supervisory responsibility but provides functional leadership to cross-functional program teams and is expected to coordinate assignments, commitments, and deliverables across multiple functions.\nCOMPUTER SKILLS:\nProficient in Microsoft O365 suite including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Teams, and MS Project. Able to develop and maintain integrated program schedules, analyze program cost and performance data, prepare executive-level program reviews, and effectively use customer portals and company program-management, ERP, PLM, and quality systems. Ability to learn new digital systems and reporting tools as required.\nKNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND COMPETENCIES:\nStrong cross-functional leadership, facilitation, negotiation, conflict-resolution, and stakeholder-management skills.\n\nClear written and verbal communication, including the ability to present complex program topics and recommendations to customers and senior management.\n\nSound judgment and structured problem-solving, with the ability to define problems, collect and evaluate data, establish facts, assess reasonableness, and draw valid conclusions.\n\nFinancial and commercial awareness, including the ability to assess program cost, margin, investment, and recovery impacts.\n\nAbility to work effectively across functions, sites, cultures, and time zones.\n\nHigh personal accountability, organization, attention to detail, and follow-through.\n\nWORK ENVIRONMENT:\nThe work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nThe employee will be in a shared office (cubicle) environment.There may be occasions where the employee will have tasks to perform in a Laboratory environment and a Manufacturing environment, where Personal Protective Equipment such as Hearing Protection, Safety Glasses and Safety Shoes are required.\nParticipation in meetings outside standard local business hours may be required to coordinate with global teams. Scheduling will vary based on program needs and should be managed by the candidate with reasonable advance notice whenever practicable.\nDomestic and international travel to customers, suppliers, technical, and manufacturing locations is required. Frequency will vary by program phase.\nPHYSICAL DEMANDS:\nThe physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nWhile performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit for extended periods of time; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear.The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, and crouch.The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.\nEmployee may be required to travel. Some amount of overnight and daily travel may be required.\nWhat We Offer:\nCompetitive Compensation\nEnjoy an attractive salary that reflects your skills, experience, and contributions.\nComprehensive Health Benefits\nChoose from a range of medical, dental, and vision insurance options to fit your needs and those of your family.\nCompany-Paid Coverage\nWe provide company-sponsored Long-Term Disability, Short-Term Disability, Life Insurance, and AD&D Insurance, with the option to enhance your coverage through buy-up plans.\nGenerous Paid Time Off\nRecharge with competitive PTO policies that support your personal time, holidays, and overall well-being.\nRetirement Planning\nPrepare for your future with our 401(k) retirement plan, featuring an employer match to help you grow your savings\nGlobal Opportunities & Local Impact\nBe part of a company that offers international collaboration and local empowerment, giving you the chance to make a real impact while building a global career.\nHutchinson is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. 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