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The role leads the organization's most complex, highest-risk, and most strategically significant R&D programs and multi-program initiatives in accordance with Trystar's Innovation Project Management Standard. Working with full autonomy and a strategic understanding of corporate priorities, the Engineering Program Manager integrates the work of multiple project teams, makes program-level technical and business decisions within delegated authority, frames enterprise-level tradeoffs for leadership decision, and leads primarily through influence.\nThe role reports to the Manager, RDE Project Engineering, and has no direct reports. It provides project and matrix leadership to the engineers and engineering project managers working on its programs, mentors engineering project managers, and serves as a trusted advisor to enterprise and executive leadership and to key customers on its programs.\nThis role follows a hybrid working model based in Burnsville, MN, requiring at least one full day a week in the office. Hybrid work from another established Trystar site may be considered. Management retains the right to adjust this model as business needs change. The role may require up to 20% domestic and international travel.\nIn this role you will:\nProgram leadership and execution\nLead complex, high-risk, and strategically significant R&D programs and multi-program initiatives in accordance with Trystar's Innovation Project Management Standard, accountable for program scope, integrated resource-backed schedules, critical milestones, spending, interdependencies, and delivery of intended business outcomes.\nOwn program intake, program charters, and program-level requirements, translating corporate priorities into clear objectives, scope, success criteria, assumptions, constraints, and benefits.\nLead and integrate the work of the engineering project managers leading component projects, primarily through influence and with formal authority where delegated, aligning mechanical, electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, sourcing, quality, compliance, and commercial workstreams through commercialization and handoff to business functions.\nWork autonomously while collaborating effectively; make program-level technical and business decisions within delegated authority and frame enterprise-level tradeoffs and recommendations for leadership decisions.\nPrepare stagegate reviews with complete, evidence-based decision packages.\nAssess program and enterprise-level risks, anticipate emerging issues across programs, escalate early, and lead mitigation and recovery planning for critical or at-risk initiatives.\nProgram oversight and reporting\nReport program progress, performance, critical-milestone attainment, spending, risks, issues, decisions, and business outcomes to enterprise and executive leadership at established cadences, and at least monthly.\nEstablish program-level reporting that provides credible, consistent visibility into status, risks, decisions, milestones, and benefits across related projects.\nRepresent Trystar to key customers on strategic programs, ensuring communications are accurate, appropriately vetted, and internally aligned.\nGovernance, tools, and processes\nRecommend Project Engineering strategy, goals, and long-term direction of RDE program and project governance to the Manager, RDE Project Engineering, consistent with best practices in the program and project management community.\nCo-own, with the Manager, RDE Project Engineering, the program management framework, including program governance, benefits management, interdependency management, stage-gate decisions, and escalation thresholds, and lead its adoption across RDE.\nCo-own Project Engineering tools, templates, and standards, ensuring they scale effectively to program and portfolio needs.\nPortfolio and resource support\nLead program and portfolio-level scenario analysis related to schedule, cost, capacity, and strategic constraints.\nRecommend portfolio sequencing, investment tradeoffs, and resource allocations to the Manager, RDE Project Engineering and RDE leadership; portfolio and resource decisions remain with leadership.\nIdentify long-term capacity and capability gaps and recommend staffing, sourcing, or partnering strategies to address them.\nCross-functional leadership\nLead with influence across functions and leadership levels to align strategy, remove systemic execution barriers, and improve enterprise execution effectiveness.\nContribute technical and business ideation to solve business problems, balancing technical, cost, schedule, quality, resource, customer, and strategic considerations.\nChampion continuous improvement by institutionalizing lessons learned across programs and strengthening RDE's execution capability.\nMentoring and development\nInformally mentor engineering project managers in program and project leadership, executive communication, strategic thinking, risk assessment, and decision making.\nPartner with the Manager, RDE Project Engineering on the Project Engineering team's capability development, including competency expectations, training priorities, and knowledge-sharing practices.\nProvide program performance input to the Manager, RDE Project Engineering regarding the engineering project managers working on assigned programs, and act as an escalation point and advisor for engineering project managers facing complex technical, business, or stakeholder challenges.\nSuccess measures\nOn-time attainment of critical milestones across assigned programs, reported at least monthly as percentage on time, early, and late.\nProgram spending control and forecast accuracy.\nDelivery of the intended business outcomes and customer value of each program.\nEarly identification, mitigation, and recovery of program risks and issues, with timely escalation.\nGate decisions supported by complete, evidence-based packages.\nExecutive, customer, and stakeholder confidence in program commitments and reporting.\nGrowth and readiness of the engineering project managers whose work the role integrates or mentors.\nQuality and adoption of program management practices across RDE.\nQualifications:\nRequired qualifications\nBachelor's or higher degree in engineering or a similar technical field, or Bachelor's or higher degree in a business-related field.\nProgram Management Professional (PgMP) certification, or actively working toward it with certification attained within one year of hire; a current Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is required until the PgMP is earned.\n7+ years leading projects in an engineering, R&D, technology, or product development environment, or a combination of these.\nProven record of leading programs or multi-project initiatives through commercialization.\nProven record of managing or leading engineers and project leaders.\nDemonstrated ability to develop and recommend strategy and goals and align execution to corporate priorities.\nBusiness acumen and demonstrated ability to make technical and business decisions to solve business problems.\nProven record of business process 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