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You will connect customer requirements, cross-functional expertise, manufacturing readiness, and business priorities to deliver project scope through disciplined planning, risk management, and execution.\nOur Team\nYou will work with engineering, manufacturing, quality, validation, regulatory, supply chain, operations, and commercial partners. This role will coordinate project deliverables while ensuring functional subject-matter experts maintain responsibility for technical content and approvals.\nWhat You Will Do\nLead assigned NPI and sustaining projects or support Program Management based on project scope and business needs\nOwn integrated project plans, including schedules, milestones, dependencies, actions, risks, stage-gate readiness, and project-status reporting\nCoordinate cross-functional contributors and facilitate readiness reviews while maintaining clear ownership of technical decisions and approvals\nCommunicate project status, commitments, risks, decisions, barriers, and recovery plans to internal teams, customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders\nConnect customer requirements with manufacturing readiness and quality, validation, regulatory, supply, operational, and commercial considerations\nMaintain traceable, audit-ready project records, objective evidence, required deliverables, open items, and approved exceptions\nPromote safety, ergonomics, standard work, continuous improvement, lessons learned, and practices that improve project predictability\nWho You Are (Basic Qualifications)\nBachelor’s degree in engineering\n5+ years of project engineering, program execution, or comparable engineering project leadership experience\nExperience leading new product introduction or sustaining projects from initiation through production release\nExperience managing project schedules, milestones, dependencies, actions, risks, and stage-gate deliverables\nWhat Will Put You Ahead\nBachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering\nExperience in medical-device or medical contract manufacturing\nExperience with three-dimensional modeling software, including SolidWorks\nExperience coordinating customer, supplier, and multi-site project activities\nExperience supporting non-recurring engineering, budget, scope, or commercial discussions\n\nThis role is not eligible for VISA Sponsorship. \n\nFor this role, we anticipate paying $105,000- $120,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.\nAt Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.\n\nHiring Philosophy\nAll Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.\n\nWho We Are\nAt Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.\n\nOur Benefits\nOur goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.\nAdditionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. 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