Engineering Program Management Lead - 827

Quantinuum•US Malta, NY

7d•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking an Engineering Program Management Lead to work on a supplier site in Malta, NY as a full time Quantinuum employee. All applicants for placement in safety-sensitive positions will be required to submit to a pre-employment drug test. This role involves leading the development and management of detailed schedules, budgets, resource needs, and work plans for technical deliverables on complex, multi-faceted hardware R&D programs. The position requires organizing and coordinating with multiple technical and operational teams, leading regular status meetings, project reviews, and end-of-task retrospectives. Ensuring timely and effective communication of strategy, scope changes, risks, and progress between technical teams, partners, product and program management, and leadership through reports, dashboards, and presentations is crucial. Additionally, the role involves identifying opportunities to accelerate schedules or develop needed technologies. The role requires the ability to travel up to 25%.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree minimum
Minimum 8+ years’ experience in technical program management
Due to Contractual requirements, must be a U.S. Person defined as, U.S. citizen permanent resident or green card holder, workers granted asylum or refugee status
Due to national security requirements imposed by the U.S. Government, candidates for this position must not be a People's Republic of China national or Russian national unless the candidate is also a U.S. citizen.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in a STEM field
A background in quantum computing, optics and photonics, or experimental physics
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
Experience in product development
Experience seeing technology-based projects through the full life cycle including managing schedule, risk, and budget
Prior experience on first-of-its-kind, early technology-based products or projects
Resourcefulness and the ability to predict challenges to proactively head-off obstacles
Excellent time management and organizational skills and experience establishing guidelines in these areas for others
Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality
Ability to adapt tactics and strategies to meet diverse, early phase, and strongly technical projects
Thorough understanding of risk and opportunity analysis and management processes related to program planning

Responsibilities

Lead development of and manage detailed schedules, budgets, resource needs, and work plans for technical deliverables on complex, multi-faceted hardware R&D programs
Organize and coordinate with multiple technical and operational teams
Lead regular status meetings, project reviews, and end-of-task retrospectives
Ensure timely and effective communication of strategy, scope changes, risks, and progress between technical teams, partners, product and program management, and leadership through reports, dashboards, and presentations
Identify opportunities to accelerate schedule or develop needed technologies