Technical Project Manager (Production Test)

$128,775 - $188,870/Yr

Unclassified - Lake Forest, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Lake Forest, CA

About the position

The Technical Project Manager (Production Test) at HHI, part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, is responsible for leading the corporate strategy for testing and detection systems across factories and suppliers. This role involves analyzing new products to implement effective manufacturing test processes, designing and maintaining production test systems, and ensuring successful new product introductions from design to manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Provide clear leadership and vision of corporate production test strategy worldwide, including 5-year planning and project status visibility.
• Guide and lead factory production test engineers.
• Design appropriate test systems for production level testing based on product specifications.
• Implement and sustain data output from production tests to aid in Quality Control and SPC detections.
• Coordinate and build test systems including test fixtures and programming stations.
• Lead the production implementation, validation, and troubleshooting of test systems.
• Sustain production test systems, including fixture/cable repair and software updates.
• Ensure effective change management of products in production, including hardware and software changes.
• Prioritize production test failures and guide teams for failure analysis.
• Train, audit, and validate equipment worldwide as needed.
• Identify and implement improvement projects focused on production test processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Electronics, HW/SW or related field.
• 7-10 years of technical experience in production testing in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Direct experience in multi-factory test system implementations.
• Project Management experience required.
• Experience in flow process design, lean manufacturing, and six sigma methodologies.
• Experience with test fixtures, cabling, firmware/software flashing, serialization, and traceability implementations.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with statistical tools and methods for problem solving in quality or process improvement.
• Excellent presentation abilities.

Benefits

• 401(k) matching
• Parental leave