Program Manager, Engineering

Ametek, Inc.•Waterbury, CT

About The Position

Haydon Kerk Pittman (HKP), an AMETEK business, provides precision motion-control solutions for advanced technology markets. HKP is seeking an Engineering Program Manager to support global execution of new product introduction (NPI) and custom engineering programs across its brands, product families, and engineering locations. This individual-contributor role provides portfolio-level visibility, resource-planning support, stage-gate governance, and cross-functional coordination for engineering development activities. The role owns the operating cadence, tools, reporting, metrics, and escalation processes used to improve on-time delivery, engineering quality, launch readiness, and responsiveness to customer and operational priorities. Project engineers retain detailed technical execution and project-level ownership; this role strengthens portfolio visibility, prioritization, governance, and escalation. Success calls for influence-based leadership, strong organization, technical curiosity, and effectiveness across multiple concurrent programs in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Operations, Project Management, or a related field.
At least 5 years of experience in program management, project management, engineering project leadership, product development, operations, or a related technical business role.
Experience supporting cross-functional programs in a manufacturing, industrial technology, electromechanical, automation, medical device, aerospace, or similarly technical environment.
Ability to influence cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization without direct authority.
Strong understanding and demonstrated use of program management fundamentals, including scope, schedule, milestones, risks, issues, decisions, actions, and stakeholder communication.
Strong communication, facilitation, organizational, analytical, and leadership reporting skills.
Ability to work with urgency and discipline in a fast-paced environment, particularly when customer or operations escalations require rapid internal alignment.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools such as Word, Excel, Teams, and SharePoint, and project management tools such as Planner Premium, MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, or similar.
Ability to work effectively with global teams across multiple locations and time zones.
Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required (10%).
Ability and willingness to use AI tools productively, identify appropriate use cases, and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs.

Nice To Haves

Engineering degree, MBA, PMP certification, Agile training, or formal program/project management training.
Experience with motion control, linear actuators, stepper motors, DC motors, lead screw assemblies, precision components, or electromechanical systems.
Experience supporting new product introduction, engineer-to-order, platform development, prototype development, validation, or production launch programs.
Familiarity with stage-gate, phase-gate, APQP, design control, ECO/ECR workflows, risk management, validation, or production readiness processes.
Experience improving project management systems, dashboards, workflows, templates, or operating cadence across a technical organization.

Responsibilities

Maintain top-level visibility into active NPI and custom engineering programs across HKP’s global engineering organization.
Support resource planning by identifying project load, capacity constraints, timing conflicts, skill needs, and priority tradeoffs.
Coordinate quarterly and near-term planning to align engineering work with business, customer, and operational priorities.
Establish a program review cadence to track milestones, risks, decisions, resources, and escalations.
Establish execution metrics for schedule adherence, gate completion, resource constraints, risk closure, escalation aging, and launch readiness.
Report engineering commitments, bottlenecks, delayed decisions, and support needs to leadership.
Facilitate stage-gate execution for strategic NPI platform programs and complex custom engineering programs.
Own program charters covering scope, objectives, assumptions, milestones, stakeholders, risks, and success criteria.
Prepare and facilitate gate reviews, documenting entry and exit criteria, risks, decisions, and follow-up actions.
Maintain program-level risk, issue, action, and decision logs.
Track cross-functional readiness for major milestones, including technical, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, documentation, and launch readiness.
Escalate risks, resource conflicts, scope changes, and decision gaps that may affect timing, quality, cost, or customer commitments.
Coordinate resources across Engineering, Product Management, Applications Engineering, Sales, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Manufacturing Engineering, and Customer Service.
Support internal coordination when customer or operations escalations require reprioritization, resource alignment, or leadership visibility.
Partner with Product Management to align NPI and platform programs with roadmap priorities, business cases, and portfolio needs.
Partner with Applications Engineering and Sales to understand customer timing and escalation priorities while those functions retain primary customer-facing ownership.
Standardize how milestones, risks, decisions, action items, gate status, resource needs, and escalation items are captured and communicated.
Use AI tools to improve productivity, decision-making, work quality, and cost efficiency; identify suitable use cases and critically evaluate AI-generated outputs.
Drive continuous improvement in HKP’s engineering execution system to improve quality, speed, responsiveness, and cross-functional alignment.