Engineer

Req ID: 140239 
Region: Americas 
Country: USA 
State/Province: Texas 
City:  Richardson 

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's-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