Principal Project Manager - Opengear
Digi International•Athens, AL
•$111,000 - $174,000•Hybrid
About The Position
This is an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to be a part of a growing company with in-demand products and support the PMO’s governance of projects operating at the execution level tracking deliverables, managing contract manufacturing schedules, surfacing supply chain risks, and driving resolution of blockers before they impact project critical paths.
Requirements
- 5+ years of proven experience within the Project Management / Contract Manufacturer
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant or associated discipline
- Leadership, decision-making and conflict resolution
- Working in a team and ability to work with different personality types
- Resourcefulness and problem solving in service of project execution
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrable skills in working with various tools such as Microsoft Office, SharePoint, MS Project or similar Gantt charting software, Atlassian suite of products including Confluence and Jira
Nice To Haves
- Experience working within or alongside a PMO in a structured governance environment.
- Familiarity with stage-gate project management frameworks.
- Exposure to ERP or MRP systems (e.g. NetSuite, SAP, or equivalent).
- Understanding of electronics, BOM structures, component lead time management, and contract manufacturer quoting processes.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary day-to-day interface between internal engineering / project teams and contract manufacturers.
- Support the management of contract manufacturer / external supplier production schedules, ensuring alignment with project milestones and engineering release timelines.
- Monitor contract manufacturer / external supplier capacity, lead times, and build readiness; escalate constraints early to programme and supply chain leadership.
- Track purchase orders, material availability, and build completions against committed delivery dates.
- Coordinate NPI handoff activities between engineering and contract manufacturer partners, ensuring documentation, BOM readiness, and process sign-off are completed on schedule.
- Maintain supplier relationship health through structured cadences and issue resolution tracking.
- Develop and maintain detailed project schedules for assigned hardware projects, including contract manufacturer and supply chain workstreams.
- Track action items, decisions, risks, and issues across project workstreams.
- Facilitate or support project working sessions, preparing agendas, capturing minutes, and distributing action items.
- Coordinate cross-functional dependencies between engineering, operations, procurement, and quality teams.
- Support stage-gate preparation by ensuring contract manufacturer and supply readiness evidence is compiled and reviewed ahead of governance milestones.
- Produce clear, accurate project status reports and schedule updates for distribution to program leadership.
- Contribute contract manufacturer and supply chain data to PMO project health dashboards and portfolio reporting.
- Maintain project documentation in line with PMO standards, including schedule baselines, status reports, and decision logs.
- Identify and escalate cross-project supply chain conflicts or shared contract manufacturer capacity constraints.
- Support continuous improvement of contract manufacturer coordination processes and PMO templates relevant to hardware projects.
Benefits
- short-term incentive program
- new hire stock award
- paid parental leave
- open (uncapped) PTO
- hybrid work environment
- competitive medical, health & wellbeing and compensation offerings
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
