The manager of the NPI CapEx EPM is responsible for coordinating equipment requirements between Engineering and contract manufacturers in Asia to support engineering prototype builds and development through the entire product life-cycle (up to hand-off to mass production). This team is responsible for coordinating with cross-functional partners, to ensure program equipment needs are met on schedule and at the best cost. Program managers are confident leaders capable of working with multi-functional teams to identify risks, drive cost and budget opportunities, explore solutions, reach consensus and implement mitigations quickly. This requires an in-depth understanding of new product development and manufacturing processes.As this requires an in-depth understanding of development and manufacturing process. The NPI CapEx PM also creates an overall project budget and tracks expenditures in a dynamic and ever changing design and schedule atmosphere to make sure the team stays within that budget. The team’s role includes the following main duties:- Drive cross-functional teams towards consensus of requirements. - Build overall project budget, compile budget requests, and generate capitalization plan based on project schedules. - Enable equipment reuse and optimize schedules and NPI line planning to minimize overall budget requirements. - Provide monthly budget updates and capitalization plan. - Work with Engineering and Operations team to balance tradeoffs of design requirements and operation efficiencies needed for mass production. - Respond quickly to changes to the overall goals, schedule, and/or architecture.