Technical Program Manager, Industrial Controls, R&D

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end Industrial Controls workstream execution for strategic customer NPI programs, managing multiple concurrent projects from design through NPI readiness and launch support.
• Establish, organize, and rigorously maintain workstream budgets, scope baselines, integrated master schedules, and program plans using Microsoft Project and Jira.
• Own relationships with external controls vendors and systems integrators, including scope alignment, SOW governance, milestone tracking, deliverable verification, and executive escalations.
• Build and actively manage risk registers covering technical, vendor, manufacturing, schedule, and financial risks; drive owned mitigations to closure and escalate early when baselines are at risk.
• Coordinate across Product, Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, Internal Tools Software, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, and Field Operations to keep each workstream tightly synchronized.
• Lead technical reviews, design reviews, gate reviews, and executive status reviews, providing clear, data-driven reporting to program leadership, executive stakeholders, and customer-facing teams.
• Support prototype builds, engineering validation, system integration, manufacturing readiness, FAT/SAT activities, pilot builds, site commissioning, engineering change control, BOM releases, and configuration management.

Job requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience or equivalent work experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, including Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Systems, Software, or a related field.
• Proven experience delivering complex, multidisciplinary electro-mechanical, robotics, automation, or industrial systems through the full NPI lifecycle.
• Demonstrated success taking complex hardware and software systems from concept through design validation, prototype builds, FAT/SAT, pilot lines, and production scale-up.
• Experience owning workstream budgets, scope baselines, integrated master schedules, and active risk registers, with advanced proficiency in Microsoft Project, Jira, Confluence, Excel, PowerPoint, and Microsoft Office.
• Strong experience managing external vendors, suppliers, and systems integrators, including SOWs, milestones, performance tracking, deliverable verification, and escalations.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional engineering teams and resource managers without direct authority, supported by strong analytical, problem-solving, presentation, and written and verbal communication…