Senior Engineering Program Manager
United States of America
Contract
2 hours ago
$65 - $75 USD
No H1B
Key skills
Manufacturing Execution System (MES) implementationBPCS ERPProgram ManagementProject PlanningElectronic Device History Record (eDHR)Enterprise IT system implementationBudgetingVendor ManagementQuality Management System (eQMS)SAPPlaniswareRisk ManagementChange ManagementERPLeadershipProject Management
About this role
Redbock, an NES Fircroft company, is seeking a Senior Engineering Program Manager for a 12-month contract focused on MES implementation. The role involves leading cross-functional teams in deploying the MES initiatives, ensuring alignment with business priorities, and managing project scope, schedule, budget, and risks.
Responsibilities:
- Provide overall program leadership and governance for MES initiatives, defining objectives, success metrics, operating cadence, and escalation paths
- Plan, execute, and monitor MES projects from initiation through delivery, owning integrated schedules, dependencies, risks, and outcomes across cross‑functional and departmental teams
- Serve as the primary liaison between project teams, site leadership, functional partners, and vendors to ensure alignment, transparency, and timely decision‑making
- Manage financial and resource aspects of the program, including budgets, forecasts, SOW execution, vendor performance, and efficient allocation of internal resources
- Assess complex, ambiguous project issues and develop effective resolutions to meet productivity, quality, compliance, and customer satisfaction objectives
- Lead risk, issue, and change management activities, ensuring adoption readiness and adherence to PMO, quality, and enterprise standards
- Provide clear, concise project status reporting and executive‑level insights on progress, risks, and financials
- Drive continuous improvement by strengthening delivery processes, tools, and consistency of execution, capturing lessons learned to improve future initiatives
Requirements:
- Experience with Manufacturing Execution System (MES) implementation projects, ideally with exposure to utilizing BPCS ERP
- Experience with Program-level Management, including budgeting and project planning
- Experience transferring from paper-based records to eDHR
- Experience assessing and planning for potential project risks
- Bachelor's degree required
- 5+ years in Program and Project Management
- Experience managing an IT software implementation for MES, ERP, eQMS, or similar Enterprise IT system
- Practical experience leading and managing the execution of projects and operational initiatives within a technical or professional discipline
- Advanced knowledge and skills in project or program management with an understanding of downstream impacts across the organization
- Experience managing a Manufacturing Execution System implementation project
- Experience with using or ideally implementing Critical Manufacturing MES
- BPCS ERP experience
- Experience with paper-on-glass approach to document digitization
- SAP experience
- Planisware experience