Launch Manager

Join Our Team as a Launch Manager at Johnson Electric!

Location: Ancaster, ON (onsite)
Salary Range: $105,000-$125,000 CAD annually
Vacancy Type: Existing Position
Schedule: Full-Time

As our next Launch Manager, you’ll manage the planning, development, and execution of new product launches from concept through production start-up. Your experience in automotive project management, manufacturing processes, capital equipment, and cross-functional project coordination will be essential to delivering successful launches that meet customer, quality, cost, timing, and operational requirements.

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

• Launch Impact: Take ownership of new product launches, manufacturing projects, and production ramp-ups from planning through successful implementation.
• Advanced Manufacturing: Work with machining cells, automated assembly equipment, capital equipment, and manufacturing technologies.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinate with Operations, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Maintenance, customers, and suppliers throughout the launch process.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Manage new product launches from planning through production start-up, developing project timelines, milestones, deliverables, safe-launch activities, and launch-readiness plans.
• Coordinate major plant-launch activities across Operations, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Maintenance, and other project stakeholders.
• Drive the implementation of new machining cells, assembly equipment, and automation systems to meet quality, safety, capacity, cost, and operational-efficiency requirements.
• Manage capital-equipment projects, including specifications, supplier selection, procurement, installation, debugging, run-off, commissioning, and validation.
• Coordinate APQP activities, PPAP submissions, Run at Rate studies, capacity analyses, customer deliverables, and production ramp-up through successful customer approval.
• Monitor project costs, timing, resources, risks, open actions, machine utilization, and capacity requirements while coordinating mitigation and recovery plans when needed.
• Support capital planning, product-cost analysis, BOM development, manufacturing-process implementation, and evaluation of future equipment requirements.
• Coordinate production-line transfers and launch activities while maintaining clear communication with customers, suppliers, leadership, and internal stakeholders.

What We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial, Mechanical, Automotive, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline; an equivalent combination of technical education and relevant professional experience may be considered.
• Two to three years of automotive manufacturing and project or program-management experience.
• Strong project-management, planning, analytical, troubleshooting, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, risks, and deadlines.
• Experience with manufacturing processes such as machining, automated assembly, injection molding, metal stamping, casting, grinding, deburring, washing, or related production technologies.
• Strong knowledge of APQP, PPAP, Run at Rate, capacity studies, automotive quality requirements, and IATF 16949.
• Experience with capital-equipment procurement, supplier management, equipment implementation, and manufacturing launch activities.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and cross-functional project-management skills, with the ability to coordinate stakeholders, drive actions to completion, communicate effectively in English, and interpret technical drawings and GD&T requirements.

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Experience managing automotive launches from RFQ through serial production.
• Experience with automation, advanced assembly systems, Microsoft Project, or comparable project-management software.
• Experience with capacity planning, equipment-utilization analysis, product costing, BOM development, or project financial evaluation.
• Experience managing production-line transfers or coordinating multi-site/global manufacturing programs.
• PMP certification or other formal project-management training.

How to Apply: Apply online at www.johnsonelectric.com. We can’t wait to meet you!

What We Offer

Johnson Electric offers talented people like you the opportunity to grow professionally and personally, surrounded by some of the most dedicated, innovative, and entrepreneurial colleagues you will find anywhere. We offer competitive pay and benefits, along with a culture driven by our values and designed to ensure that our most important asset, our people, can flourish.

Johnson Electric welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates participating in any stage of the selection process.

In accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, Johnson Electric is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment and selection process. Applicants should advise Human Resources if they require accommodation during the recruitment process.

Please note: Johnson Electric may use Artificial Intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process.

Come join our global, inclusive & diverse team

Our purpose is to improve the quality of life of everyone we touch through our innovative motion systems. We are a truly global team bound together by our shared values. Our culture is built on the diversity, knowledge, skills, creativity, and talents that each employee brings to the company. Our people are our company’s most valuable asset. We are committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace where employees of different backgrounds feel valued and respected, regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity or religious background. We are committed to inspiring our employees to grow, act with ownership and find fulfilment and meaning in the work they do.