**NPI Program Analyst,**Spec/Staff**
**Responsibilities**:
- Understand the overall product lifecycle as well as the requirements to meet each key milestone.
- Generate build plans based on demand gathered from cross-functional engineering and business teams.
Drive these build plans with suppliers over the course of the NPI lifecycle to meet demand.
- Identify material and hardware requirements and work with suppliers in ensuring BOMs are procured with consideration to lead time.
- Communicate build requests to suppliers in a timely and accurate fashion.
Track and expedite material & WIP at suppliers as needed to ensure the program deadlines are met.
- Create purchase requisitions, track PO approval status, monitor build progress, and communicate status back to the PM's and Chip/Chipset teams.
- Monitor critical program milestones, test HW/SW release dates, product revisions, and quality issues, communicate to suppliers as needed and minimize the impact to the overall program schedule.
- Lead Operations meetings with Program Management and other engineering & business cross-functional teams to review the status of the program and coordinate seamless planning and execution with key stakeholders.
- Identify critical paths and analyze potential changes to the program.
Communicate this to the core team along with proposed mitigation and contingency plans.




- Troubleshoot supplier issues and help develop alternative schedules, milestones, processes etc. to resolve supply issues.
- Work with production teams in ensuring a smooth transition from NPI to production.
**Minimum Qualifications**:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Operations, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field
- 3+ years of Supply Chain, Product Planning, or related work experience.
- Fluent in conversational and business English.
- US Visa preferred.
**Preferred Qualifications**:
- Masters, Business Administration and/or industrial & production Engineering.
- Ability to collaborate and work well in a team environment.
- Ability to give and receive instruction and possess strong attention to detail.
- Adaptability to a challenging and changing environment
- Semiconductor end to end process background with a technical understanding of front end wafer fabrication, sort, assembly, and test process preferred.
- Industry or academic experience in operations/supply chain planning.
- Experience with MS office programs (particularly excel) required.
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
- Strong decision making and comfort in making sound data-based recommendations.
- Self-starter with the ability to work with mínimal supervision.

📌 Program Management Specialist - Staff (Tijuana)
🏢 North American Production Sharing
📍 Tijuana