Essential Responsibilities:
?Manage 4-8 audio system (system or amplifier) programs, requiring both applications and development engineering.
each program team should consist of no more than 17 members.
?Foster positive environment to create high-achieving team: treat all members with respect, encourage constructive dissent,
re-focus team members when they get off-track, give positive feedback whenever it is appropriate, maintain a positive
attitude, and reallocate resources in order to meet team commitments.
?Define tasks to be performed by cross-functional team in developing systems. Use task list to create a work breakdown
structure. Use work breakdown structure to establish program schedule.
?Follow corporate product development process. Ensure the compliance of team members.
?Ensure prompt decision-making is executed by promoting consensus decisions, intervening when consensus
decision-making fails, and making unilateral decisions in the case of a deadlock.
?Understand all of the technical detail of the products used in all systems, both electrical and mechanical.
?Approve requirements and technical solutions for meeting requirements for all development products.
?Lead team meetings by establishing an agenda, monitoring discussion to insure adherence to agenda, promoting
a free exchange of ideas, challenging the pre-conceptions of team-members, finishing the meeting in a timely fashion,
and publishing meeting minutes.
?Establish program budget. Manage program budget.
?Work with Sales, Supplier Engineering, and Design Engineering to set system cost target. Meet system cost target.
?Set team goals for timeliness, customer issues, and quality. Lead team to meet goals.
?Interact with all internal functions: design engineering, manufacturing, quality, purchasing, marketing, and sales.
?Negotiate resource allocations from functional managers. When a resource conflict occurs, negotiate a solution
with functional managers and other program managers.
?Serve as lead program interface with customer.
?Identify program issues as early as possible and drive resolution at the team level.
If resolutions requires management intervention, escalate to appropriate management personnel with proposed
alternatives.
?Review selected suppliers and quotes, and participate in supplier reviews/selection as appropriate.
?Coordinate and oversee ordering of prototype and production tooling.
?Audit task completion. Report major deviations from plan to appropriate management.
?Provide monthly reports in requested format.
