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