About The Role

The Senior Technical Program Manager supports the Principal Engineer and program leadership in coordinating technical scope, schedule, and risk across a multi-package industrial automation program. The role bridges engineering and program management, ensuring technical milestones are tracked, technical risks are visible, and cross-vendor technical dependencies are managed.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Principal Engineer in tracking technical scope, deliverables, and dependencies across automation packages
• Maintain the technical schedule and RAID log (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies) for engineering deliverables
• Coordinate technical inputs from multiple vendors and internal engineering leads into a single program view
• Prepare technical status reports and dashboards for program and client reviews
• Support planning and tracking of design reviews, FAT, SAT, and other engineering milestones
• Support change management for technical scope changes, coordinating impact assessment with engineering
• Act as a coordination point between engineering, procurement, and delivery functions
• Support development and maintenance of technical documentation and program governance records
• Coordinate between client stakeholders (engineering, IT, Infrastructure, digital transformation lead) and vendor technical teams
• Track timely delivery of materials to the shopfloor, from supplier through to the client
• Follow up on program milestones to ensure delivery on time
• Support early identification and nomination of technical risks, working with the technical team to define mitigation plans
• Hold technical meetings with the client engineering team to align on and adopt recommended changes
• Document and communicate all program assumptions, dependencies, and exclusions throughout delivery
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Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or a related technical field
• 10+ years of experience in technical program or project management within industrial automation, manufacturing, or systems integration environments
• Implementation of full dark factory or multiple lines automation including painting, assembly, machining, packaging, etc.
• Strong understanding of the engineering delivery lifecycle (design, procurement, manufacturing, installation, commissioning)
• Experience coordinating multi-vendor technical deliverables
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Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred background: robotics, control systems, mechanics
• Experience in defense, aerospace, or other regulated manufacturing environments
• Familiarity with MES / digital manufacturing platforms
• Experience supporting FAT/SAT coordination on large capital projects.
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