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Compensation: 105000 USD – 125000 USD / Year
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Overview :
Our client will be hiring a Project Manager, Mechanical & Electrical (NPD / NPI) to drive project execution across mechanical and electrical systems product development initiatives. This role drives detailed project planning, coordination, and delivery for complex, cross-functional development efforts, ensuring that timelines are realistic, dependencies are understood, and teams remain aligned to product roadmaps and company commitments as we deliver next-generation energy storage products.
You will act as a key execution driver, integrating internal teams of engineers, architects, product leaders, and third-party partners into a cohesive project structure, proactively managing dependencies, identifying risks, tracking costs, and maintaining timelines to ensure projects are executed effectively and with emphasis on quality results. This role operates with moderate autonomy and emphasizes hands-on coordination, schedule integration, and risk management, operating as a bridge between functional execution and program objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end scope capture and facilitate execution of mechanical and electrical system product development projects
- Detail and maintain integrated project plans, including milestones, dependencies, and risks
- Proactively engage with mechanical and electrical engineering teams to ensure progress against milestones, leveraging sprint methodologies to keep teams focused and organized
- Partner with technical SMEs to define, scope, and manage subcontractor engagements, including development of SoW and deliverable expectations
- Serve as the primary coordination point for third-party development vendors, ensuring alignment to project timelines and deliverables
- Identify, escalate, and resolve cross-team risks, blockers, and execution gaps with support from leadership
- Track project progress to support accurate portfolio KPIs
- Run project reviews, standups, and status communications with a focus on accuracy and consistency
- Support translation of product and technical strategy into executable plans
- Implement and reinforce project management tools, processes, and governance standards
Qualifications:
- Execution mindset and the ability to organize and motivate teams to implement with excellence
- 3 years of experience in project management, program management, engineering within a physical product development environment
- Experience delivering complex, multi-team project outputs in integrated system NPD/NPI or product evolution applications relevant industries include automotive, aerospace, energy, or similar technical products
- Strong working knowledge of product development NPI lifecycles and PMI processes
- Ability to engage deeply with technical teams without direct authority and understand complex integrated system design strategies/development interplay to identify associated effort, risks, & challenges
Preferred
- Experience in energy storage, power systems, EV, utilities, or similar industries
- Background in hardware-focused NPI and integrated systems product development
- Experience with mechanical / electrical subcontractors, consultants, and equipment suppliers
- Familiarity with product safety and regulatory compliance requirements
- Familiarity with information management tools such as Smartsheet, MS Project, Jira, Confluence, Oracle Cloud, Fusion PLM
- Proficiency with Excel and / or Power BI
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience’
- PMP, Scrum, or similar certification (preferred)