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Engineering Project Manager (EPM)
About the Role
The Engineering Project Manager (EPM) is responsible for planning, coordinating, and closing engineering projects with a clear focus on scope, schedule, communication, and team coordination. Operating at the intersection of engineering, program management, and customer delivery, the EPM acts as a communication bridge between stakeholders, the engineering team, and cross-functional partners while ensuring deliverables are completed on time, within budget, and to the quality standards our customers expect.
This role is ideal for an early-career project leader with a strong engineering foundation who is ready to take ownership of project execution, develop a disciplined approach to planning and risk management, and grow under the mentorship of senior engineers and project managers.
What You’ll Do
- Define project scope, goals, deliverables, and success criteria in partnership with stakeholders.
- Develop and contribute to detailed project plans covering timelines, budgets, and resource allocation.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams and monitor day-to-day project activities.
- Track progress against milestones; identify, escalate, and resolve schedule and coordination risks proactively.
- Maintain project documentation, including schedules, Azure DevOps records, status reports, change requests, and meeting minutes.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for internal and external stakeholders.
- Facilitate clear, consistent communication within the team and across departments.
- Ensure engineering work meets technical specifications, industry standards, and customer requirements.
- Collaborate with QA/QC teams on testing and validation plans.
- Lead milestone reviews such as design reviews and bench testing.
- Support project closeout, customer handover, post-project reviews, and document archiving.
What You’ll Bring
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field.
Experience
- 2–4 years of overall engineering experience in a relevant industry.
- 1–2 years coordinating or managing engineering projects (e.g., Site Engineer, Project Engineer, or Assistant Project Manager).
- Experience working in multidisciplinary engineering teams and cross-functional environments.
Skills & Capabilities
- Solid grasp of core engineering fundamentals and project execution principles.
- Ability to read and interpret engineering documentation, drawings, specifications, schematics, and design documents, and connect technical content to scope and schedule.
- Hands-on experience contributing to project plans and tracking milestones.
- Comfortable managing day-to-day project activities and coordinating across teams.
- Skilled at identifying schedule and coordination risks and escalating them appropriately.
- Confident leading project meetings and reporting status to internal stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills; able to bridge stakeholders and the engineering team.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Receptive to coaching and feedback from senior engineers and Senior EPMs.
What We Offer
- Meaningful, mission-driven work within our Critical Technologies department.
- A collaborative, multidisciplinary environment where you’ll work alongside senior engineers and program managers.
- Structured mentorship and clear pathways for growth into Senior EPM and program leadership roles.
- Exposure to complex, real-world engineering projects, from planning through customer handover.