Senior Technical Project Manager

Description

The company builds and integrates high-value capital equipment, including robotics, precision tooling, motion systems and automated assembly, into aircraft production sites.

This Senior Technical Project Manager role takes a robotics, automation or aerospace tooling program from first idea to live operation, sitting between systems engineering, program delivery and the customer.

You will work with multidisciplinary engineering teams and act as the main point of contact for internal stakeholders, suppliers and customer production sites.

Responsibilities

• Take robotics and automated tooling programs from requirements through to production, including the CISS, CIPS and deployment stages.
• Create and keep up to date the integrated master schedule, resource plans and program budgets.
• Coordinate work across mechanical design, controls, software, systems, manufacturing and supply chain.
• Run key engineering milestones such as PDR, CDR and FDR, risk reviews and readiness gates.
• Make sure work meets the company's quality, safety, documentation and configuration management standards.
• Turn customer and production needs into clear, workable technical scopes.
• Coordinate architecture decisions across robotics, motion control, vision, tooling and factory integration.
• Monitor technical risks, mitigation plans and validation activities.
• Work with systems engineering and controls or software leads on interface definitions and performance checks.
• Plan verification and validation, covering simulation, offline programming, CISS, CIPS and production ramp-up.
• Lead program reviews, status reports and executive updates.
• Handle scope changes, contract deliverables and commercial impacts with program leadership.
• Support onsite installation, commissioning and production readiness.
• Track budget, earned value and forecast accuracy.
• Manage procurement, supplier deliverables and long-lead items so they stay on schedule.
• Resolve issues across engineering, manufacturing and supply chain.
• Drive continuous improvement in execution, documentation and lessons learned.
• Improve tooling performance and delivery processes.
• Help develop proposals, estimate costs and scope new programs.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical or industrial engineering, robotics, or a related field.
• 10+ years managing complex technical programs in robotics, automation, aerospace tooling or capital equipment.
• Proven experience bringing integrated hardware and software systems into production.
• A solid grasp of industrial robotics, control systems and automated manufacturing.
• Working proficiency in SolidWorks or CATIA for design reviews and technical discussions.
• Experience with program management tools such as MS Project or Smartsheet.
• Familiarity with configuration control, change management and formal engineering reviews.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with engineers, operations staff and executives.
• Preferred: a master's degree.
• Preferred: experience with aerospace OEM production systems and requirements.
• Preferred: background in robotic drilling, fastening, inspection or assembly automation.
• Preferred: PMP certification or equivalent program management training.
• Preferred: experience with international programs and supplier coordination.
• Preferred: familiarity with industrial automation safety standards such as ISO, ANSI/RIA and CE.
• Preferred: prior work with aerospace automation integrators.

Conditions

Travel of about 30% within the US and abroad.

Base salary of $160,000.00 to $188,000.00 per year, plus a performance-based variable component. This range is an indication only.

On-site role, US direct hire.

You must stay aware of compliance risks and act with integrity.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applicants of all backgrounds.

Benefits

• Competitive base pay plus incentive compensation, which may include profit sharing.
• Access to a retirement savings plan and the chance to join an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
• Paid time off, including personal days and holidays, plus a generous paid parental leave program.
• Medical coverage with traditional and high-deductible options, prescription, dental, vision, life and disability cover, an Employee Assistance Plan and other supplemental benefits.
• Access to the global Leadership University, with unlimited use of over 10,000 e-learning courses on employability, certifications and career paths.
• Chances to join accelerated development programs and to move within the country or internationally.