Prod Intro Ops Manager

Crane Aerospace and Electronics has an exciting opportunity for an New Product Introduction Operations Manager at our Burbank, CA location.

Crane Aerospace & Electronics supplies critical systems and components to the aerospace and defense markets. You’ll find Crane Aerospace & Electronics in some of the toughest environments: from engines to landing gear; from satellites to medical implants and from missiles to unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Every 1.2 seconds, product built at our Crane Aerospace & Electronics Burbank facility is stopping aircraft – delivering passengers and military personnel safely to their destination.

Home to our Landing & Cabin Systems team, Crane A&E’s brake control systems and premium cabin actuation solutions are flying on tens of thousands of aircraft throughout the world. You’ll join a business with a long track record of engineering excellence, set in the wonderful town of Burbank filled with great community atmosphere, schools, weather and no shortage of entertainment.

Start the next chapter of your career with Crane Aerospace & Electronics!

The NPI (New Product Introduction) to Operations Manager for each solution is responsible to successfully transition products from development into production. They will work closely with Business/Program Management to ensure sourcing decisions are aligned with the Strategic Sourcing Plan, and will work closely with Engineering, Site Leaders, Value Stream Managers, MEs and QEs in the creation of the operations plan for the production readiness reviews.

• Interface with strategic and tactical Supply Chain teams
• Support IPT teams for new NPI programs
• Determine priorities, remove roadblocks, address engineering issues and ensure actions are completed
• Assist and drive transition to production

Identify and support the operational lead for each program or own the operational lead requirements based on level of NPI efforts within the solution.

• Track NPI inventory by program
• Track OTD (On-time-delivery) and milestone achievement for NPI programs
• Track tasks/action items for completion
• Track material costs for New Products

• Determine Early Supplier Involvement (ESI) depending on the complexity of commodity ie. CCAs, magnetics, machining etc.
• Manage material acquisition for NPI
• Ensure successful material changeover to production buying

• Drive demand with the business management and scheduling to ensure all program demand is loaded in the system for visibility of requirements as early as possible (for prototype, engineering development, test units, qual, red and black label)
• Transition from NPI schedule to production schedule
• Identify major items and sub-assemblies and align with expected suppliers in coordination with Strategic Sourcing and internal manufacturing (sourcing plan)

• Ensure Supply Chain is coordinating between the selected suppliers and Engineering on development of support documentation and development costs are identified and negotiated

• Ensure manufacturing documents and plans for Major sub-assemblies are identified in the supply chain dossier as internal makes
• Coordinate with manufacturing, quality, CM, and engineering to execute:
  Cell requirements, resource needs, tools and test equipment
• Support Production Readiness Review

• PDRs and CDR (Production/Critical Design Reviews)
• Phase Gate Reviews and Approvals
• Program Reviews
• Vertical Reviews

Coordinate the creation and maintenance of the program sourcing plans.

Identify and support/lead supplier assessments related to NPI programs.

• Program status related to material and schedule (Cost and Delivery)
• Primary liaison between Product Development, Supply Chain and manufacturing

Staffing Assessment - whether we have enough staff/support for programs;
Identify need for NPI headcount through implementation.

Any other task assigned by your supervisor or management.