Manager, Portfolio Manufacturing Risk & Technical Task Force

Summary

The Manager of Portfolio Manufacturing Risk & Technical Task Force is a strategic, cross-functional leadership position responsible for overseeing the full manufacturing risks across all active hardware programs, projects, and products. Rather than focusing on a single customer or dedicated product line, this leader operates as the central Manufacturing Risk Dashboard Owner, possessing an absolute, bird-eye view of the entire operational portfolio. The primary mission is to spot cross-program similarities, detect systemic patterns of risk, and establish comprehensive manufacturing standardization. Operating with broad systemic authority, this role is responsible for triggering macro-level process improvement projects and mobilizing technical Task Forces to intercept and resolve critical manufacturing or process excursions before they threaten high-volume production milestones.

Detailed Description

1. Portfolio Risk Dashboards & Pattern Recognition

• Dashboard Ownership: Architect, own, and maintain the master Manufacturing Risk Dashboard, providing corporate and operational leadership with real-time visibility into active risk thresholds
  across all program portfolios.
• Systemic Similarity Analysis: Analyze cross-program manufacturing variables to identify similarities, parallel failure modes, and recurring risk behaviors across distinct customer pipelines and product typologies.
• Predictive Metric Tracking: Aggregately track NUDD (New, Unique, Different, Difficult) vectors, golden pFMEAs, and Critical-to-Quality (CTQ) trends to identify systemic engineering blind spots
  before physical prototyping commences.

2. Standardization & Macro Project Inception

• Process Standardization: Synthesize localized risk lessons into enterprise-wide manufacturing standards, ensuring uniform pFMEA controls, custom assembly rules, and test coverage parameters are mandated across all production networks.
• Macro Project Triggering: Initiate and champion wide-scale, structural process improvement or tooling optimization projects when dashboard data indicates a recurring risk pattern across multiple
  independent product lines.
• Lessons-Learned Loop: Ensure post-mortem analysis data is standardly infused back into early co-development frameworks run by Front-End, Back-End, and Test engineering teams.

3. Task Force Activation & Emergency Escalation

• Task Force Mobilization: Serve as the executive authority to instantly trigger and assemble high-urgency, cross-functional engineering Task Forces when critical, cross-cutting manufacturing risks
  breach dashboard thresholds.
• Crisis Command Coordination: Provide high-level oversight to active crisis teams, tracking micro-milestones and resolution trajectories in automated systems (e.g., Jira) without getting bogged
  down in single-account administration.
• Structured Containment: Enforce strict macro containment directives, including cross-portfolio material purges or floor alerts if a localized component anomaly poses an exposure risk to parallel
  programs.

4. Cross-Functional Engineering Orchestration

• Front-End Matrix Interfacing: Partner with the Front-End Senior Manager to audit portfolio-wide SMT assembly variables, tracking recurring large-form-factor BGA warpage and reflow optimization trends.
• Back-End Assembly Alignment: Collaborate with the Back-End Senior Manager to assess systemic robotic cell defects, torque assembly constraints, and common rack-level cooling loop integration pain points.
• Test Infrastructure Interfacing: Engage with the Test Senior Manager to ensure portfolio-wide test diagnostic scripts (ICT/FCT/SLT) adapt to neutralize escape risks identified via dashboard tracking.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Analytical & Dashboard Fluency: Advanced proficiency designing or managing complex engineering metrics dashboards (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, Jira Query Language, or parallel automated
  manufacturing databases) to isolate systemic similarities and defect correlations.
• Methodological Mastery: Deep foundational expertise in pFMEA structures, NUDD risk analysis frameworks, CTQ parameters, statistical process control (SPC), and structured crisis problem-solving methodologies (8D, Shainin, Kepner-Tregoe).
• Influence & Leadership Presence: Exceptional cross-functional communication and authority; proven ability to command cross-functional engineering cells, trigger corporate capital
  expenditure/standardization projects, and articulate macro operational exposures to executive leadership boards.

Physical Demands

• Incumbent will perform the duties of this position in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require periodic sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• May require occasional travel.

Typical Experience

• Manufacturing Portfolio Experience: 6+ years of specialized experience in high-tech electronic manufacturing, operations data science, or NPI systems management, with a clear history of
  tracking multi-program portfolios rather than isolated lines.

Typical Education

• Bachelor's or Masters degree in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Quality Operations, or a related system-focused discipline.
• Educational requirements may vary by geography.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.