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develop mitigation plans and escalate appropriately.\nStrong business and financial acumen, including the ability to understand budgets, cost targets, forecasts, business cases, and value-based portfolio tradeoffs.\nProficiency with Microsoft Office applications; experience with PLM, ERP, project management, scheduling, document-control, requirements, or reporting systems preferred.\nAbility to interpret technical documents, drawings, specifications, requirements, bills of material, release documentation, quality records, and customer requirements.\nMay require travel to customer sites, supplier locations, field locations, manufacturing facilities, industry events, or other NOV locations.\nMust maintain confidentiality and comply with all NOV safety, quality, business conduct, and HSE requirements.\nPRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES\nLead planning, coordination, execution, and closeout of complex cross-functional product development and New Product Introduction (NPI) programs from concept through commercial release and deployment.\nDrive programs through all PLM and stage-gate milestones; establish gate plans, ensure required deliverables are complete, and secure timely reviews and approvals.\nCoordinate Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Operations, Product Management, Finance, and other stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.\nDevelop and manage integrated schedules, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, action registers, risk registers, issue logs, and decision records.\nDefine and control program scope, requirements, budgets, cost targets, resources, quality objectives, and production-readiness criteria in alignment with business priorities.\nProactively identify execution constraints and roadblocks; lead mitigation, recovery, and corrective-action plans and escalate decisions when needed.\nFacilitate program reviews, executive stage-gate reviews, decision meetings, and product release approvals; clearly communicate status, risks, opportunities, and required actions.\nDrive accountability and alignment across functional organizations without relying on direct authority; resolve conflicts, negotiate commitments, and hold action owners accountable.\nCoordinate requirements management, Engineering Change Management, change control, configuration management, technical documentation, and product release records.\nCoordinate supply-chain, sourcing, procurement, manufacturing, quality, regulatory, service, and operational-readiness activities to support successful production launch.\nCoordinate new product trials, customer or field deployments, feedback, lessons learned, and improvement actions in collaboration with product line and technical teams.\nDevelop and maintain program dashboards, KPIs, portfolio reports, and executive summaries covering schedule, cost, quality, risk, decisions, and time-to-market.\nManage and prioritize a portfolio of concurrent programs; identify resource conflicts and recommend sequencing, tradeoffs, or escalation based on business value and execution risk.\nContinuously improve PLM governance, stage-gate criteria, program-management tools, reporting practices, workflows, and cross-functional communication.\nProvide guidance, mentoring, and knowledge transfer to developing project or program management resources and cross-functional team members.\nPerform other work-related tasks as assigned and comply with all NOV Company and HSE policies and procedures.\nFACILITY/GROUP SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES\nSupport Artificial Lift product development and lifecycle activities, including ESP systems and related technologies, from opportunity definition through product release and field deployment.\nApply ESP, artificial lift, oil and gas, or similar industrial-product knowledge to support program decisions, technical and commercial alignment, and product line priorities.\nCoordinate local and global teams to support design maturity, documentation readiness, supplier readiness, manufacturing validation, quality approval, and field introduction.\nPartner with Product Management and product line leadership to align the development portfolio with customer needs, technology roadmaps, resource capacity, and strategic growth priorities.\nSupport preparation of executive presentations, gate-review materials, product updates, technical documentation, case studies, and customer-facing materials as required.\nPromote consistent PLM practices, onboarding, coaching, lessons learned, and knowledge transfer across teams supporting the Artificial Lift product portfolio.\nEDUCATION & EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATIONS\nBachelor degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management, Operations, Supply Chain, or a related field required; technical degree preferred; advanced degree is a plus.\nTypically 5 or more years of relevant experience leading complex cross-functional projects or programs in product development, NPD/NPI, engineering, manufacturing, operations, or related roles.\nDemonstrated experience leading products through structured PLM or stage-gate processes from concept through production and commercial release.\nStrong experience within manufacturing, industrial equipment, oil and gas, energy services, artificial lift, ESP, or a similar technical product environment preferred.\nExperience managing portfolios of concurrent product development programs while balancing schedule, quality, cost, resource, and business priorities.\nESP systems experience and/or artificial lift product knowledge strongly preferred.\nPMP or comparable project/program management certification is a plus; demonstrated product development leadership is more important than certification.\nBEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES\nStrategic Mindset\nBusiness Insight\nDrives Results\nEnsures Accountability\nPlans and Aligns\nManages Complexity\nDecision Quality\nBalances Stakeholders\nCollaborates\nCommunicates Effectively\nInfluences\nCourage\nBuilds Effective Teams\nInstills Trust\nSituational Adaptability\nTECHNICAL COMPETENCIES\nPLM Program Management\nNew Product Development / NPI\nStage-Gate Governance and Executive Reviews\nPortfolio Prioritization and Resource Planning\nIntegrated Scheduling and Milestone Management\nRisk, Issue, Decision, and Change Management\nRequirements Management and Traceability\nEngineering Change Management and Change Control\nConfiguration Management and Product Release\nManufacturing and Production Readiness\nSupply Chain, Sourcing, and Procurement Coordination\nQuality Systems and Regulatory Readiness\nCost Management, Forecasting, and Business Case Support\nExecutive Communication and Decision Facilitation\nESP / Artificial Lift Product Knowledge\nContinuous Improvement and Time-to-Market Reduction","description_format":"text","description_chars":7918,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":5,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Petroleum & Mining Engineering","Oil & Gas"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-28T09:05:02Z"}],"liveness":{"score":53,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.59,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":4,"expected_fill_days":12,"reasons":["conf:9","stale_co","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-30T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/nov-product-line-program-manager-tulsa","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/nov-product-line-program-manager-tulsa.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T04:39:40Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":4119,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":881,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}