Program Manager

Lincoln Electric is a high-performance industrial machinery and technology leader who helps customers manufacture and maintain vital equipment and infrastructure. Lincoln Electric’s innovative solutions enable higher quality and productivity across a variety of processes including welding, cutting, brazing, machining, process automation, and field repair. The Company leverages proprietary technologies and expertise in materials science, power electronics, automation, and intelligent software to help customers build better and achieve resilience in their operations. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Lincoln Electric is the essential ‘Linc’ that keeps the economy running. The Company operates 71 manufacturing and automation facilities across 20 countries and serves customers in over 160 countries. For more information about Lincoln Electric and its products and services, visit the Company’s website at https://www.lincolnelectric.com.

Location: Macomb

Employment Status: Salary Full-Time

Function: Manufacturing

Pay Range:$80,000 - $110,000

Target Bonus: 10%

Primary Function

Accountable for the planning, directing, and execution of local and/or global projects. The Program Manager is also responsible for managing projects and project team activities in the development and launch of new products.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinate/lead multiple projects of med-high complexity and risk or projects with multiple sub-projects.
• Drive relevant project and project status communications; Monitor progress through project management reviews.
• Manage and work through project launch teams to ensure that the project scope and outcome is achieved. Accountable for scope change management within the project. Responsible for orchestrating response to customer scope changes in collaboration with the Customer Account Manager and the project team.
• Execute, monitor and control the schedule, cost deliverables, risk management and scope to meet or exceed stakeholder and customer expectations.
• Responsible for allocating resources and management of the project team. Proactively manages potential conflict and resource constraints.
• Works across business to resolve elevated issues internally and with the customer, ensuring barriers that could impede project progress are removed.
• Coordinates with Customer Account Manager to act as the primary point of customer contact for the project.
• Participate in strategic planning/profit planning processes
• Evaluate and implement continuous improvement in the product development process. May include authoring documents and standards.

• Provide guidance and support to lower level project managers.
• Assure customer development and production product forecasting and Sales Order demand is maintained
• Maintains safe operations by adhering to safety procedures and regulations.
• Maintains continuity among work shifts by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
• Documents actions by completing production logs.
• Additional job duties as assigned

Education and Experience

• Understanding of PowerPoint, Excel, 3D Model, Scheduling, Aerospace , blueprints and GD & T
• Understanding of fabrication, machining, outsourcing, turning tooling, machine prints, time management, materials, tool assembly and inspection
• Bachelor’s degree preferred, not required
• Minimum 3 years experience in a product life cycle environment and in management
• Strong leadership skills including the building of effective teams, an ability to manage conflict, the effective setting of priorities in the team and an ability to clearly define roles, responsibilities and objectives, strong financial acumen and advanced use of analysis tools
• Knowledge and understanding of the Material Requirements Planning (MRPII) process
• Demonstrates a commitment to Quality, Lean Manufacturing and continuous improvement

Lincoln Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to promoting equal employment opportunity for applicants, without regard to their race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including, but not limited to, lactation), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.