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We have one goal: to manufacture quality magnets! We are looking for exceptional individuals who want to learn, build, and lay a foundation for our company for the years to come.

The Program Manager is responsible for managing customer programs, new product introduction (NPI) activities, and sample coordination within a manufacturing environment. This role serves as the primary liaison between customers, engineering, operations, production, quality, and supply chain teams to ensure the successful execution of customer requirements, project timelines, and product launches. The ideal candidate will possess strong project management, communication, and operational coordination skills with the ability to drive programs from initial customer request through production readiness and launch.

At Noveon Magnetics, we believe our diversity makes us who we are, and we strive every day to build a culture where everyone feels welcome.

Program Management & NPI Launch Execution

• Managing the life cycle of customer programs from initial request and concept phases through successful production launch and ongoing engineering support.
• Coordinating and tracking all New Product Introduction (NPI) activities across design, engineering, operations, production, quality, planning, and supply chain

departments to guarantee perfect cross-functional alignment.

• Monitoring and updating complex project schedules, critical path milestones, project risks, and resource deliverables to ensure programs remain strictly on

schedule.

• Driving comprehensive production readiness activities, including technical manufacturing documentation, process validation reviews, work instructions, and

robust launch execution planning.
APQP, PPAP, & Quality Delivery

• Directing and managing the structured APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) process from initial phase-gates to final manufacturing handoff.
• Partnering directly with the Quality Department to compile, review, track, and deliver formal PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) packages and customer

submissions to secure swift compliance approvals.

• Overseeing the logistical tracking of customer sample requests, custom prototype builds, manufacturing qualification runs, and technical engineering submissions.

Commercial Alignment & Customer Interface

• Serving as the definitive, primary point of contact for customer communications regarding program timelines, delivery commitments, engineering change notices

(ECNs), and floor production status.

• Partnering closely with the Business Development and Applications Engineering teams to assess new opportunities, scope technical feasibility, and align

commercial priorities with operational capabilities.

• Proactively coordinating customer timing expectations and technical requirements back to internal teams, ensuring customer timelines directly match

company engineering and manufacturing capacities

Data Integrity & Continuous Improvement

• Maintaining highly accurate program documentation, change management logs, status milestone tracking reports, and comprehensive historical customer

records.

• Driving strategic, continuous improvement initiatives focused on shortening program execution cycles, tightening cross-team communication, and elevating

launch performance.

• Collaborating hand-in-hand with manufacturing and quality teams to swiftly resolve floor production bottlenecks, process non-conformances, or customerrelated field concerns.

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Preferred:

• Holds a strong, practical knowledge of automotive core tools, specifically APQP phase gating, FMEA, Control Plans, and compilation of PPAP levels.
• Possesses demonstrated success working cross-functionally with customer account executives, sales/business development personnel, and applications engineering teams

to negotiate priorities and scope lines.

• Has a strong working familiarity with ISO 9001, IATF 16949, or similar regulated aerospace/industrial quality management systems.
• Is highly detail-oriented with exceptional follow-through, internal accountability, and comfort adapting within fast-paced manufacturing dynamics.

At Noveon Magnetics, we’re reimagining the rare earth magnet industry and changing the way we electrify the world. We’re a fast-growing, diverse team of scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and innovators from across the globe united by a shared mission to support the commercialization of our magnet manufacturing technology and forge a new path toward resource efficiency, resource independence and a low-carbon economy.

As the only U.S manufacturer of permanent rare earth magnets essential to a range of technologies that rely on an electric motor-from electric vehicles to medical devices to aerospace and defense systems to clean energy-we’re ushering in an electric future that is 100% Made in America. All our operations, from R&D through production, assembly, and delivery, are conducted out of our state-of-the-art manufacturing center in San Marcos, Texas.

Noveon Magnetics is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.