Engineering Project Manager
About The Position
The Engineering Project Manager is an advanced individual contributor in Research, Development, & Engineering (RDE) who independently manages complex, multidisciplinary engineering projects within delegated authority. The role integrates technical and business execution to meet project scope, schedule, cost, and performance objectives. Assignments may include power conversion, power distribution, and related product development projects. The position reports to the Manager, RDE Project Engineering and has no direct reports; it leads through project and cross-functional coordination. Program leaders retain accountability for overall program results and senior-stakeholder alignment, while engineering technical leads retain design approval authority. The role does not own portfolio prioritization, people management, or department-wide governance. The position manages project scope, schedules, milestones, spending, forecasts, risks, issues, decisions, and stakeholder communications. It coordinates multidisciplinary workstreams, maintains requirements and change traceability, supports design reviews and verification and validation, and coordinates commercialization and launch readiness. The role applies established project-management practices, contributes practical process-improvement recommendations, supports portfolio reviews and scenario analysis, and provides informal project-focused coaching to team members. The default location is Burnsville, Minnesota, under a hybrid working model requiring at least one full office day per week. Hybrid work from another established Trystar site is allowed; fully remote work is considered only for exceptional candidates. The working model may change with business needs. The role may require up to 20% domestic or international travel.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or higher degree in engineering or a similar technical field, or a bachelor’s or higher degree in a business-related field.
- Current CAPM, CPPM, or equivalent project-management certification required at the time of hire; HRBP and Talent Acquisition must confirm equivalency during screening.
- At least 7 years leading projects in engineering, R&D, technology, product development, or a combination of these environments.
- Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex, multidisciplinary engineering projects and oversee integrated product-development execution.
- Business acumen and cross-functional business experience.
- Experience with project scheduling and reporting tools.
- Proven ability to influence without authority.
- Effective communication, organization, interpersonal relationship, and structured problem-solving skills.
- Ability to apply critical thinking and disciplined time management, align stakeholders, and translate technical and business information into clear project decisions.
- Experience with Microsoft 365, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Teams, and SharePoint.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in engineering or business, or equivalent experience.
- Active progress toward a PMP; this is preferred and does not replace the required current certification.
- Record of driving technology or products through commercialization.
- Effective communication with stakeholders at all corporate levels.
- Ability to informally coach project personnel.
- Experience in Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid project environments.
- Experience managing external vendors, suppliers, or development partners.
- Familiarity with Trystar technologies and processes.
- Experience with Microsoft Planner and Microsoft Project.
- Experience with AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT.
- Experience with Mindomo or similar mindmapping tools.
Responsibilities
- Independently lead assigned complex, multidisciplinary engineering projects within delegated authority and established project-management standards.
- Own project scope, integrated resource-backed schedules, milestones, spending, and coordination of technical and business workstreams.
- Plan day-to-day execution, clarify deliverable ownership, and hold matrix team members accountable while respecting technical leads’ and subject-matter experts’ authority.
- Integrate applicable mechanical, electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, sourcing, quality, compliance, and commercial activities.
- Align requirements and interfaces across workstreams and maintain traceability through design reviews, verification, validation, engineering change control, ECR, ECO, and MOC.
- Coordinate commercialization and launch readiness, handoff to business functions for normal operations, and lessons learned.
- Develop and maintain integrated schedules, milestones, financial forecasts, and spending reports; identify dependencies, critical paths, and the effects of changes.
- Manage multiple projects or major workstreams, prioritize according to risk, customer commitments, and resource availability, and identify schedule conflicts early.
- Work with functional leaders to resolve execution barriers and evaluate options using technical, cost, schedule, quality, resource, and customer considerations.
- Use structured problem solving to identify root causes, assess alternatives, recommend corrective actions, and resolve project-level issues.
- Maintain risk, issue, and decision records, assign owners, and follow through on mitigation and resolution; make decisions within approved authority and escalate significant risks, major scope changes, and enterprise-level tradeoffs.
- Coordinate technology assessments with technical leads and translate findings on feasibility, maturity, alternatives, and implementation risk into project assumptions, recommendations, and decision points.
- Report progress, scope, schedule, cost, performance, risks, issues, decisions, and recommendations to functional leaders and senior stakeholders at established cadences, at least monthly.
- Maintain consistent status, risk, issue, decision, and milestone records and lead timely, accurate, vetted, and internally aligned project-level stakeholder communications.
- Apply and reinforce established governance, requirements management, integrated scheduling, registers, decision logs, design reviews, health checks, reporting cadences, escalation paths, and lessons learned.
- Identify process gaps and contribute practical feedback and improvement recommendations for Project Engineering tools, processes, standards, and practices.
- Provide project data for portfolio reviews, identify cross-project dependencies and resource constraints, and participate in scenario analysis; recommend project-level options and escalate cross-project resource conflicts.
- Support Staff or Principal Project Engineers on high-risk, strategically significant, or multi-program initiatives with clearly defined ownership of assigned workstreams, deliverables, decisions, and milestones.
- Provide informal, project-focused coaching on tools and processes, risk and resource planning, scope and schedule management, issue resolution, stakeholder communication, and lessons learned.
- Support onboarding and training of new project team members as assigned and foster teamwork aligned with Trystar’s values.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
