What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Program Manager - Exempt position at Medical Engineering Consultants (MEC)?
Job 2687 - Engineering Program Manager - Contract located near Boston, Massachusetts
Medical Engineering Consultants (MEC) support medical device and pharmaceutical companies to be more efficient and productive by providing resources, knowledge, and expertise to augment and supplement to their work. Our vision is to closely align our clients’ needs with the best resources available in the marketplace. We take proactive, preventative, and corrective action and create a roadmap for ongoing future improvement by identifying, integrating, and executing sustainable solutions that validate processes, ensure fully compliant quality systems, and close gaps between current and FDA expected stages.
MEC offers companies short or long-term support , from high-end leaders, managers and consultants to skill-set Engineering staff and SME’s (Subject Matter Experts).
MEC's mission is to inspire positive cultural change from within, and always exceed our clients’ expectations.
Onsite
Role Overview
The Program Manager, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), provides end-to-end leadership for the planning, governance, and execution of MES initiatives supporting manufacturing operations at a regulated production site. This role leads cross-functional teams to deploy, localize, and sustain a standardized global MES platform while ensuring alignment with business priorities, operational readiness, and enterprise standards.
The Program Manager is accountable for integrated program delivery across scope, schedule, budget, resources, risk, quality, and compliance. Also including site readiness, training, change management, go-live, and hypercare.
The role ensures minimal disruption to ongoing production and enables a controlled transition from implementation to steady-state operations.
Key Responsibilities
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Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Medical Engineering Consultants (MEC) support medical device and pharmaceutical companies to be more efficient and productive by providing resources, knowledge, and expertise to augment and supplement to their work. Our vision is to closely align our clients’ needs with the best resources available in the marketplace. We take proactive, preventative, and corrective action and create a roadmap for ongoing future improvement by identifying, integrating, and executing sustainable solutions that validate processes, ensure fully compliant quality systems, and close gaps between current and FDA expected stages.
MEC offers companies short or long-term support , from high-end leaders, managers and consultants to skill-set Engineering staff and SME’s (Subject Matter Experts).
MEC's mission is to inspire positive cultural change from within, and always exceed our clients’ expectations.
Onsite
Role Overview
The Program Manager, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), provides end-to-end leadership for the planning, governance, and execution of MES initiatives supporting manufacturing operations at a regulated production site. This role leads cross-functional teams to deploy, localize, and sustain a standardized global MES platform while ensuring alignment with business priorities, operational readiness, and enterprise standards.
The Program Manager is accountable for integrated program delivery across scope, schedule, budget, resources, risk, quality, and compliance. Also including site readiness, training, change management, go-live, and hypercare.
The role ensures minimal disruption to ongoing production and enables a controlled transition from implementation to steady-state operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide overall program leadership and governance for MES initiatives, including defining objectives, success metrics, operating cadence, and escalation paths.
- Plan, execute, and monitor MES programs from initiation through delivery, owning integrated schedules, dependencies, risks, and outcomes across cross-functional and departmental teams.
- Lead deployment and sustainment of a standardized MES solution, including required site-specific localizations, while maintaining alignment with global templates and enterprise architecture.
- Serve as the primary liaison between site leadership, functional partners, project teams, and vendors to ensure alignment, transparency, and timely decision-making.
- Manage financial and resource aspects of the program, including budgets, forecasts, vendor performance, statement of work execution, and effective allocation of internal resources.
- Oversee integration between MES and site and enterprise systems, including ERP, learning management systems, equipment connectivity, and other applications defined in approved project charters.
- Lead risk, issue, and change management activities to ensure adoption readiness and adherence to PMO quality standards and compliance requirements.
- Provide clear, concise project status reporting and executive-level insights on progress, risks, dependencies, and financial performance.
- Ensure production continuity through disciplined cutover planning, go-live execution, and post-implementation hypercare support.
- Drive continuous improvement by strengthening delivery processes, tools, and execution consistency, capturing lessons learned to inform future initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience leading and managing complex programs or projects within a technical or operational environment.
- Advanced knowledge of program and project management practices, with the ability to assess downstream impacts across functions and the broader organization.
- Experience working with manufacturing systems, digital transformation initiatives, or regulated operational environments strongly preferred.
- Proven ability to navigate ambiguity, resolve complex issues, and balance productivity, quality, compliance, and business objectives.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience in program or project management.
- Sponsorship is not available for this position
AAP/EEO DFWP
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.