NPI Program Manager

This fully onsite position operates weekdays from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and reports to the Director of Product Management.

This fully onsite position operates weekdays from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and reports to the Director of Product Management.

• Own and continuously improve ANA's phase-gate process, including entry and exit criteria, required evidence, functional ownership, decision rights, approvals, and standard templates.
• Facilitate gate and program reviews; confirm readiness evidence, document decisions and exceptions, and drive actions to closure.
• Manage portfolio priorities, sequencing, cross-program dependencies, and shared-resource conflicts.
• Maintain an NPI roadmap and dashboard integrating engineering milestones with functional commitments, dependencies, gate dates, and readiness status.
• Provide evidence-based status and escalations to leadership, recommending trade-offs among schedule, cost, scope, quality, customer, and resource priorities.

• Partner with the Engineering Project Manager on every new product to integrate engineering milestones, technical dependencies, and design maturity into the cross-functional program plan.
• Maintain clear role boundaries: the Engineering Project Manager owns the detailed engineering schedule, technical execution, design and validation coordination, change-control workflows, technical documentation, and engineering master data. The NPI Program Manager owns gate governance, cross-functional commitments, business readiness, and escalation.
• Coordinate cross-functional review of scope and design changes for cost, schedule, inventory, supplier, manufacturing, quality, regulatory, service, and commercial impact, using Engineering's change-control record as the technical source of truth.
• Maintain the program-level risk, issue, and dependency view; coordinate mitigation and escalate unresolved items while Engineering manages detailed technical risks.

• Convene all gate functions - Product Management, Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality and Regulatory, Finance, Service and Aftermarket, Sales, and Marketing - to define deliverables and confirm readiness.
• Partner with Product Management and Finance on the program charter and business case, including scope, volume assumptions, target cost and margin, launch budget, and success criteria.
• Confirm Supply Chain and Operations readiness through functional-owner sign-off on suppliers, capacity, lead times, tooling, bills of material, routings, item masters, standard costs, and material availability.
• Confirm Manufacturing, Service, and commercial readiness through signed-off plans for work instructions, equipment, training, service parts and literature, pricing, sales enablement, and customer support.
• Confirm Quality and Regulatory readiness through approved evidence for validation, certification, inspection, process controls, safety, and compliance.

• Define gate evidence and acceptance criteria and verify functional-owner approval; do not author or approve technical work products on their behalf.
• Lead the handoff from NPI to steady-state ownership, with agreed exit criteria, open-item owners, and a defined stabilization period.
• Track and report gate timeliness, action closure, launch-date adherence, readiness exceptions, ramp performance, early-build quality, and initial field performance.
• Facilitate post-launch reviews and incorporate lessons learned into the gate process, templates, and portfolio planning.
• Promote accountability and ensure launch activity meets company quality, safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Perform all other duties as assigned

• A cross-functional phase-gate process is used for all NPI programs, with clear decision rights and distinct ownership for the NPI Program Manager, Engineering Project Manager, and functional leads.
• A single NPI roadmap and dashboard combines engineering and functional inputs and is reviewed with leadership on a fixed cadence.
• Gate decisions, actions, escalations, and major dependencies are resolved on time, with launch-date adherence improving.
• Products meet agreed cross-functional exit criteria for manufacturing, quality, supply, service, commercial, and post-launch readiness.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, operations, program management, or a related field
• 5+ years leading cross-functional programs in a manufacturing or industrial-products environment, including new product introductions or launches
• Demonstrated ownership of a phase-gate, stage-gate, or APQP-style process, including gate facilitation, readiness assessment, decision documentation, and action closure
• Experience integrating product, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, finance, service, and commercial workstreams through production ramp
• Working knowledge of product development, manufacturing readiness, supply-chain planning, quality systems, commercialization, and ERP or MRP processes
• Familiarity with NPI controls such as DFMEA, PFMEA, control plans, first article inspection, validation, certification, bills of material, routings, and standard costing
• Ability to manage concurrent programs with competing priorities and shared resources
• Ability to influence, align, and hold cross-functional teams accountable without direct reporting authority
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and program planning, dashboard, and collaboration tools
• Strong analytical, facilitation, prioritization, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills
• Experience with power generation, compressed air, energy storage, off-highway equipment, factory automation, or similar engineered products is a plus
• Ability to traverse office, production, prototype, pilot-build, and manufacturing areas
• Lifting light equipment or materials of up to 30 lbs.
• Occasional travel to supplier facilities and other ANA locations

• Be Creative with Solutions
• Build open and honest relationships
• Build a positive team and family spirit
• Be inclusive
• Look for better ways
• Be humble
• Urgency
• Competitive pay
• 401k with company contribution

• Life Insurance