Project Manager

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories•Boise, ID

About The Position

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) is seeking a Project Manager to join its R&D Meter Systems team in Boise, Idaho. The team develops products for SEL’s metering solutions. The Project Manager coordinates development activities with stakeholders, maintains healthy and actionable backlogs, and communicates transparently across concurrent initiatives. The role calls for familiarity with Scrum, Agile workflows, and software and firmware development practices. The goal is to clarify priorities, proactively manage dependencies, and help engineering teams deliver high-quality products that meet customer and business needs. The position is expected to be filled at the Project Manager II level, though applicants may be considered for another level depending on their background, with compensation aligned accordingly. SEL designs, manufactures, and supports products and systems that protect, monitor, control, and automate electric power systems. The company’s mission is to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical.

Requirements

Associate’s degree or equivalent experience.
Typically 2+ years of related experience in a professional setting.
Excellent coordination, organization, and prioritizing skills.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Ability to learn technical concepts.
Strong writing, documentation, and speaking skills.
Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities.
Ability to work cooperatively in a team environment.
Satisfactory background check results.
Negative drug test result(s).

Nice To Haves

Experience with Jira and Confluence.
Scrum Master, Agile, or SAFe certification.
Experience supporting software and/or firmware development teams.

Responsibilities

Own and maintain Jira backlogs for firmware and software teams, ensuring epics, features, stories, tasks, and bugs are accurately defined, prioritized, linked, and ready for development.
Partner with engineering managers, technical leads, and product stakeholders to understand project objectives and identify the firmware and software work required to achieve delivery goals.
Break projects into actionable work items and coordinate with technical leads to ensure work is appropriately scoped, estimated, and assigned to upcoming sprints.
Facilitate backlog grooming, sprint planning, and release planning so teams maintain a healthy pipeline of prioritized, ready work.
Monitor progress across multiple concurrent initiatives, tracking milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and technical commitments.
Identify schedule risks, blocked work, and execution gaps; escalate issues and drive resolution with appropriate stakeholders.
Develop and maintain Jira dashboards, reports, metrics, and planning artifacts that provide visibility into project status, sprint progress, backlog health, release readiness, and team capacity.
Improve backlog management, sprint planning, estimation, and cross-functional coordination processes to increase predictability and execution efficiency.
Prepare and communicate project status updates, dependency summaries, risk assessments, and delivery forecasts to engineering leadership and project stakeholders.
Follow SEL Values, Principles of Operations, and World-Class Manufacturing principles; understand, create, and simplify.
Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

Employer-funded stock ownership plan (ESOP) and personal 401(k) options.
Medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
10 paid holidays.
Annual vacation accrual starting at 12 days.
9 paid sick days.
Paid family and medical leave covering 90% of pay.
STEM courses, apprenticeships, tuition assistance, and engineering development programs.
Wellness, fertility, adoption, and flexible spending benefits.

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