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Program Manager – Operations and Supply Chain

Location : ERIE, PA, United States

Job Family : Engineering

Job Type : Regular

Posted : Nov 20, 2025

Job ID : 61162

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About Us: NVH is a best-in-class innovator in the aerospace and industrial markets, specializing in the custom design and manufacturing of advanced vibration, motion management and control feedback solutions. We are committed to delivering high-quality products that enhance the performance and safety of various aerospace applications. Our team is dedicated to fostering a collaborative and dynamic work environment that encourages innovation and professional growth.

Position Overview:We are seeking a proactive and results-driven Program Manager of Operations and Supply Chain initiatives with a focus on resolving complex cross-functional challenges. This role will be instrumental in driving past due backlog recovery, developing sustained recovery plans, supporting line of balance analysis, managing production ramp-ups, supporting alternative sourcing, and addressing obsolescence issues. The ideal candidate will have a strong bias for action, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to collaborate across multiple stakeholders including customers, operations, supply chain, quality, and engineering. Regular travel within the U.S. to customer sites, supplier locations, and production facilities will be required. This role will report to the Aerospace and Defense Business Unit Manager.

Key Responsibilities:

Key Projects you will lead as needed:

+ Backlog Recovery: Lead efforts to identify, analyze, and recover past due backlogs. Develop and execute recovery plans to meet customer delivery commitments.

+ Obsolescence Management: Manage obsolescence risk projects, working with cross-functional teams to develop mitigation and replacement strategies.

+ Production Ramp-Up: Manage and coordinate various production ramp-up activities to meet increasing demand while maintaining quality and schedule. Support plant capital projects activities.

Functions you support as needed – may turn into cross functional projects you may lead:

+ Line of Balance Analysis: Support line of balance and capacity analysis completed by the Demand Planning team to optimize production flow and identify bottlenecks.

+ Alternative Sourcing: Collaborate with supply chain and engineering teams to identify and qualify alternative suppliers and materials to mitigate risks related to supply disruptions and obsolescence.

+ Continuous Improvement: Support opportunities for process improvements across the product lifecycle to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction.

Expectations for the role:

+ Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the primary liaison between customers, operations, supply chain, quality, and engineering to ensure alignment and timely resolution of production and delivery issues.

+ Travel: Willingness to travel domestically and occasionally internationally to visit customers, suppliers, and manufacturing sites as needed to support program objectives.

Required Qualifications:

+ Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field.

+ 5+ years of combined experience in program management, preferably in managing initiatives within the serial production environment.

+ Proven ability to manage complex programs with cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment.

+ Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

+ Proficient in project management tools (e.g., MS Project, JIRA, Smartsheet)

+ Knowledge of product lifecycle management (PLM) principles and best practices.

+ Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously under tight deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications:

+ MBA or advanced degree preferred.

+ Experience in manufacturing, aerospace, industrial products, or technology sectors is a plus.

+ PMP Certification.

This position is subject to meeting U.S. export compliance and/or U.S. Government contracting citizenship eligibility requirements.

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we’ve enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.

With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.

Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.

Our Purpose — Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow — comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.

By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability.

As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow.

Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Parker is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. However, U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations.

(“Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / VEVRAA Federal Contractor”)

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Drug-Free Workplace

In accordance with Parker’s policies and applicable state laws, Parker provides for a drug-free workplace. Therefore, all applicants seeking employment with Parker will be subject to drug testing as a condition of employment.