Manufacturing Program Coordinator

Flex•Coopersville, MI

About The Position

The Manufacturing Program Coordinator /Program Administrator will be based in Coopersville, MI, reporting to the Manager of Program Management. This role assists with managing customer accounts in all aspects of the business relationship.

Requirements

Typically requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in addition to 7 years of experience in a manufacturing or related Industry.
Demonstrates advanced functional, technical and people and/or process management skills as well as customer (external and internal) relationship skills.
Demonstrates advanced skills in functional/technical area.

Responsibilities

Assist in the review of program proposals or plans to define time frame, procedures for accomplishing program, staffing requirements and allotment of available resources to various phases of program.
Confers with appropriate managers within Program Management, Operations and others to outline work plan and to assign duties, responsibilities and scope of authority, and to receive technical advice and resolve problems.
Drives and coordinates projects/activities with the Customer Focus Team (CFT) members to ensure program progresses on schedule and within prescribed budget, including facilitating the work/communication across different departments.
Prepares program reports and executive presentations for management, client, or others.
May assist in metric development and tracking for the program.
Occasional travel to customer locations.
Drive the team to look for continuous improvement activities that have an impact in the project timeline, cost or daily production activities.
Follow up on shipments to ensure we meet site and customer guarantees without any delay and coordinate the team to any issue that could generate an impact.