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We make fleet vehicles - and everyone in and around them - safer. Our fleet safety platform brings together best-in-class products, ground-breaking technology, and a 100-year history of fleet know-how and innovation to solve the world’s biggest fleet safety problems.\nOur core value is safety. Without safety first, efficiency and productivity are not possible. This is true for our products, our culture, and our relationship with our community. Our vision is to reduce preventable deaths and injuries in and around fleet vehicles with a goal of ZERO accidents.\nWe are re-defining what safety means for fleets of every type - from school buses to waste collection trucks, firefighting to utility vehicles, police cruisers to delivery vans.\nWhether you work in our Charlotte plant to build life-saving stop arms for school buses, or design advanced camera vision products in our Vancouver office, forge valves and high-quality nozzles to fight fires, or dream up new ways to protect fleet operators in our Corporate HQ in Kansas City, you’ll contribute to our goal to keep everyone safe.\nWe are a fast-growing manufacturing, service, and technology company with over 1700 employees in over 15 locations across Canada and the US. We’re looking for motivated self-starters with innovative thinking to join our team and help us achieve our growth and performance goals.\nPOSITION SUMMARY\nThe Technical Project Manager is accountable for the technical delivery workstream supporting complex transit vehicle technology implementations. The role leads mechanical engineering coordination, vehicle configuration development, mounting and installation design, prototype and conditional-installation support, technical documentation, and controlled transfer of approved technical information to field teams.\nThis position combines technical judgment with disciplined workstream management. The Technical Project Manager partners closely with the Project Manager and Field Coordinator, but remains the primary owner for technical readiness, engineering deliverables, configuration accuracy, and technical issue resolution.\nDUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES\nTechnical workstream planning and control\nDevelop and maintain the technical workstream plan, milestones, dependencies, resource assignments, priorities, and delivery forecasts in alignment with the integrated project schedule.\nLead and coordinate mechanical engineering and technical writing activities, collaborating with engineering teams and technical writers to ensure accurate, high-quality outcomes.\nCoordinate product, supply-chain, production, quality, and field-support resources across vehicle types and project phases.\nMaintain technical action, risk, issue, decision, dependency, and change records; assign owners and due dates and drive items to verified technical closure.\nProvide accurate technical status, schedule impacts, risks, assumptions, and decisions to the Project Manager and customer-facing team.\nProvide technical dependencies, configuration requirements, material lead-time assumptions, and engineering estimates for schedule recovery, kit-demand planning, and production forecasting.\nEscalate resource, design, approval, configuration, and documentation constraints before they affect prototypes, production, or field installation.\nVehicle engineering and installation readiness\n Plan and lead the technical portions of vehicle surveys, engineering reviews, dry fits, prototypes, first-of-type builds, conditional installations, and technical acceptance activities.\nConfirm mounting solutions, hardware, cabling, connections, materials, drawings, Bills of Materials (BOMs), and installation methods meet contractual requirements, customer standards, and actual vehicle conditions.\nCoordinate technical decisions with Engineering, Product Management, Supply Chain, Production, Quality, Field Service, Installation, and the customer; document approved direction and downstream actions.\nEvaluate field discoveries and technical defects, establish containment and corrective action, and verify that approved resolutions are implemented across affected vehicles and documents.\nSupport OEM and retrofit configuration alignment by applying validated lessons from surveys, prototypes, and production installations.\nDocumentation, configuration, and change control\n Own technical review and release coordination for installation guides, engineering drawings, BOMs, technical bulletins, configuration records, and related deliverables.\nPerform quality reviews for technical accuracy, revision alignment, usability, completeness, and consistency before information is released to the customer or field teams.\nLead or support Engineering Change Order reviews, technical impact analysis, required approvals, and coordinated updates to drawings, BOMs, guides, work instructions, and affected configurations.\nOwn the technical intake and disposition of urgent parts requests and BOM-change requests; confirm technical suitability, obtain required engineering approvals, and release controlled revisions before field use.\nTranslate survey, dry-fit, prototype, and field feedback into repeatable approved installation instructions before scaled deployment.\nDevelop standard work, review checklists, approval workflows, naming conventions, and controlled repositories to reduce single-person dependency and preserve program knowledge.\nTechnical stakeholder leadership\nServe as Safe Fleet's technical project contact during engineering reviews, readiness meetings, field investigations, demonstrations, and customer approval activities.\nExplain technical decisions, alternatives, constraints, and risks clearly to customer, project, field, and leadership audiences.\n Facilitate rapid technical triage while maintaining engineering authority, change control, documentation, and safety requirements.\nParticipate in the defined after-hours coverage rotation as the technical escalation owner and document decisions for the Project Manager and next-shift handoff.\nProvide technical coaching and knowledge transfer to installers, field leads, support personnel, and designated backup resources.\nNew York Pay Transparency: $125,000 - $145,000 USD Annual\n*At Safe Fleet, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Our core values of integrity, innovation, teamwork, customer focus, and safety guide our efforts to provide a workplace where all employees can thrive and reach their full potential.\nRequirements\nBachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, systems, manufacturing, or engineering technology; equivalent relevant technical experience may be considered.\nFive or more years of experience leading technical delivery in vehicle systems, transportation, systems integration, manufacturing, engineering, or field implementation.\nWorking knowledge of electromechanical vehicle installations, technical drawings, BOMs, configuration management, installation documentation, and engineering change control.\nExperience coordinating engineers, technical writers, suppliers, production personnel, installers, field-service teams, and customer technical stakeholders.\nDemonstrated ability to plan technical work, manage dependencies and risks, document decisions, communicate schedule impacts, and drive technical actions to closure.\nStrong technical writing, review, troubleshooting, facilitation, and customer communication skills.\nProficiency with Microsoft Office and collaboration/document-control tools; 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