Capex Operations Program Manager

Apple Apple · Big Tech · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · Operations and Supply Chain

This role manages the day-to-day activities for capital equipment deployment in iPhone Operations, focusing on program objectives, issue resolution with contract manufacturers, and asset lifecycle management. It involves cross-functional collaboration, budget planning, and ensuring equipment is maintained and traceable.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive day-to-day activities to meet overall program objectives.
  2. Facilitate good communication and collaboration across engineering functions, operations, and vendors
  3. Work together with several teams for budget planning, engineering design, BOM building, CTB, setup, vendor support, sustaining, transfer, EOL scrap etc
  4. Drive CM teams - for on-site equipment management, including quantity, status monitoring etc; for equipment repair, calibration, spare parts management etc; to maintain high traceability and usability of Apple’s assets.
  5. Involve tactical coordination (scope, schedule & resource management) of multiple concurrent projects in a matrix environment, across multiple sites through the entire asset lifecycle.

Skills

Required

  • LEAN master with lean implementation and organizational change experience
  • Experience in leading different contract manufacturing and suppliers with different scales
  • Ability to work with rapid development cycles and to remains flexible and calm in the face of ambiguity
  • Detailed knowledge of product development processes as well as manufacturing processes
  • Proficiency using Excel, Keynote, PPT, Word etc
  • Strong communication, partner management, negotiating and influencing skills
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in a technical field with proven program management experience

Nice to have

  • Experience in other complicate capital equipment management environment could be a plus, such as semiconductor, LED, solar, military, aerospace, automotive, large agricultural machinery, etc.
  • Proficiency using Microsoft Project Or OmniPlan at the enterprise level.
  • PMP certification desirable. Demonstration of equivalent knowledge is required if not certified.
  • Experience in massive data analysis, coding and machine learning would be a plus.

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience in other complicate capital equipment management environment could be a plus
  • LEAN master with lean implementation and organizational change experience.
  • Experience in leading different contract manufacturing and suppliers with different scales
  • Ability to work with rapid development cycles and to remains flexible and calm in the face of ambiguity
  • Detailed knowledge of product development processes as well as manufacturing processes.
  • Strong communication, partner management, negotiating and influencing skills.
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in a technical field with proven program management experience.