Senior Engineering Manager (Program Management)

About our group:

The Program & Product Management organization at Seagate Singapore (W1) provides crossfunctional leadership across the full product lifecycle-from NPI through mass production, sustaining, and product retirement. The team ensures that product introductions, transitions, and ongoing manufacturing align with Seagate's cost, quality, delivery, and technology objectives.

About the role - you will:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Business, or related fields.
• Provide strategic and operational leadership for all phases of inhouse or outsourced manufacturing for assigned product(s) or product lines.
• Act as the central interface across Design, Manufacturing, Quality, Test, Supply Chain, and Engineering teams to drive seamless product lifecycle execution-from NPI build readiness through volume stability and endoflife.
• Oversee manufacturing readiness, ensuring product builds meet specifications, reliability, quality targets, and customer requirements.
• Formulate and execute mid and longterm production plans, including costreduction initiatives, yield improvement strategies, and process optimization roadmaps.
• Lead crossfunctional program reviews, ensure risk identification and mitigation, and align stakeholders on deliverables and timelines.
• Drive operational excellence through structured problemsolving, metrics management, datadriven insights, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage escalations related to product performance, quality events, manufacturing issues, or supply disruptions.
• Select, develop, and evaluate program managers or crossfunctional contributors to ensure strong execution capability.
• Collaborate with global product teams to support customer engagements, roadmap alignment, and technology readiness.

About you:

• Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence and align crossfunctional teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholdermanagement skills.
• Deep understanding of manufacturing operations, NPI processes, product lifecycle management, and quality systems.
• Highly analytical, structured, and able to drive clarity in complex, ambiguous situations.
• Comfortable leading discussions at both strategic and tactical levels.
• Open to travel to Thailand for on-job-training for 1 month.

Your experience includes:

• 10+ years of experience in program management, product management, manufacturing engineering, or operations.
• Demonstrated success managing crossfunctional programs from NPI through volume manufacturing.
• Experience in highvolume production environments-preferably HDD, semiconductors, or precisionmanufacturing.
• Strong background in cost management, yield improvement, and operational performance.
• PMP, Agile, or programmanagement certification.
• Experience working with ODM/CM partners or managing outsourced manufacturing.
• Familiarity with PLM, MES, ERP, and programtracking tools.

Location:

Location: Woodlands, Singapore, W1
Travel: None