Technical Project Manager

Job Summary

Technical Program Manager - Industrial Engineering (Factory Design) responsible for driving factory design programmes from concept through engineering, construction, equipment installation, and operational readiness. The role manages integrated schedules, factory layout coordination, engineering change requests, cross-functional dependencies, risks, stakeholder commitments, and programme reporting.

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Factory Design Execution: Oversee factory design projects from concept development through engineering reviews, construction readiness, and final implementation.
• Project Planning and Tracking: Establish integrated project schedules, milestones, resource requirements, and deliverable commitments, ensuring forecasted completion dates align with operational deadlines.
• Cross-Functional Scope Alignment: Coordinate with Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Facilities, Construction, EHS, and Operations to establish clear project scopes, technical requirements, responsibilities, and execution priorities.
• Change Request Management: Own the end-to-end change request ticketing process in MaintainX or Quickbase, including request initiation, scope documentation, stakeholder assignments, approval tracking, execution follow-up, and closure.
• Layout Planning and Governance: Coordinate factory master layout updates, equipment placement reviews, space allocation decisions, and design approvals to maintain alignment with manufacturing requirements.
• Proactive Factory Design Coordination: Identify and initiate factory design change requests, represent Industrial Engineering priorities, and drive cross-functional decisions to support successful project delivery.
• Risk and Commitment Management: Identify design conflicts, infrastructure constraints, and execution dependencies; proactively follow up with stakeholders to maintain schedule commitments, resolve delays, and protect operational milestones.
• Program Visibility and Reporting: Maintain project dashboards, milestone trackers, decision logs, and progressreports to communicate schedule trends, stakeholder commitments, outstanding issues, and execution status.
• Design Process and Construction Integration: Standardize design review, approval, and documentation workflows while coordinating engineering deliverables with construction schedules, equipment installations, and operational readiness.

Deliverables

• Integrated factory design schedules, milestones, and program dashboards.
• MaintainX/Quickbase change request records, including scope, ownership, approvals, and closure.
• Stakeholder commitment trackers, action logs, and schedule variance reports.
• Factory layout review, approval, and revision-control records.
• Risk registers, decision logs, and weekly program status reports.
• Construction handoff packages and operational readiness documentation.

Skill Requirements

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of technical project or program management experience in manufacturing, factory design, industrial engineering, or construction.
• Understanding of factory layouts, equipment integration, material flow, and infrastructure requirements.
• Experience with MaintainX, Quickbase, or similar change management and ticketing systems.
• Proficiency in project scheduling, stakeholder management, risk assessment, and progress reporting.
• Working knowledge of AutoCAD, Navisworks, ACC, and Bluebeam.
• Strong technical coordination, problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.
• PMP certification preferred.

Other Requirements