Senior Program Manager - Business Execution

Aquatech International•Usa, PA

About The Position

Aquatech’s business is entering a period of rapid global growth. The Senior Program Manager supports execution of the global strategy by establishing the structure, coordination, reporting, and accountability needed to turn business priorities into completed actions and measurable results. The role works across engineering, technology, project execution, commercial, supply chain, finance, HR, regional teams, and other Aquatech organizations, primarily as an individual contributor in a matrix organization. It achieves results through coordination and influence rather than direct authority. The position applies program- and project-management discipline to internal organizational, strategic, standardization, product-development, and business-improvement initiatives. It is not a customer project-management or PMO role: project managers and functional organizations retain accountability for customer projects and technical deliverables. The Program Manager coordinates cross-functional initiatives, maintains implementation schedules, establishes reporting and KPIs, manages organizational interfaces and stakeholder agreements, tracks commitments, and drives follow-through. The role establishes working agreements with internal and partner organizations covering scope, responsibilities, resources, interfaces, deliverables, schedules, governance, and reporting. Initial priorities include implementing the Global Execution Model; establishing a consistent operating and reporting cadence; and defining organizational interfaces, governance, and accountability. The position reports to the Vice Presidents, with one VP designated as the primary day-to-day sponsor and performance-review owner. Functional, regional, engineering, project, and account organizations retain accountability for their respective scope and deliverables. A bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Civil, or a related discipline) and a minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience are required. Aquatech offers a comprehensive benefits package, including paid time off, company-paid holidays, and a 401K plan; benefits are based on eligibility.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Electrical, Civil, or a related discipline).
Minimum of 10 years of relevant industry experience.
Significant experience in program management, business operations, engineering, organizational transformation, or similar cross-functional execution roles.
Demonstrated ability to convert strategy and broad organizational objectives into structured implementation plans, schedules, milestones, owners, KPIs, and measurable results.
Strong program- and project-management discipline applied to internal organizational and business initiatives.
Experience developing dashboards, KPIs, reporting systems, governance processes, and management routines.
Strong business and financial understanding, including the ability to organize and communicate business-performance information.
Demonstrated experience working in complex matrix organizations and coordinating work across functions, regions, and partner organizations.
Ability to establish clear stakeholder agreements regarding scope, responsibilities, interfaces, resources, schedules, deliverables, and accountability.
Strong organizational and analytical skills, with disciplined action tracking and follow-through.
Ability to influence teams and reinforce accountability without direct reporting authority.
Clear, concise communication skills and ability to organize complex issues into actionable information.
High degree of integrity, discretion, urgency, and sound judgment.
Able to perform the essential duties satisfactorily; reasonable accommodation may be made for individuals with disabilities.
Physical demands include occasionally exerting up to 50 pounds of force and frequently or constantly exerting negligible force to move objects; may need to climb ladders, must not be afraid of heights, and must wear personal protective equipment while on site; requires sitting at a desk for extended periods and a high degree of concentration in a busy area.

Nice To Haves

Experience in water treatment, industrial technology, engineering, construction, or capital-equipment businesses.
Familiarity with ultrapure water, industrial wastewater treatment, water reuse, zero-liquid discharge, or semiconductor infrastructure.
Experience implementing global operating models, coordinating geographically distributed organizations, developing internal standards and processes, or executing cross-functional organizational change.

Responsibilities

Establish and maintain the business operating cadence, including dashboards, KPIs, action tracking, decision logs, business reviews, and reporting processes.
Provide visibility into priorities, commitments, accountable owners, milestones, risks, resource requirements, and completion status.
Convert priorities into executable internal programs with defined scope, owners, schedules, milestones, dependencies, resources, KPIs, and completion criteria.
Coordinate implementation across functions and organizations while functional and technical teams retain ownership of their technical scope and deliverables.
Coordinate internal initiatives such as organizational integration, global execution-model implementation, engineering and execution standardization, product development and productization, process improvements, business systems, supplier strategies, and organizational or cultural change.
Translate global strategy into organizational actions, including coordinating roles and responsibilities, decision rights, resource requirements, operating processes, governance, standardization, organizational interfaces, and implementation activities.
Develop and maintain working agreements with partner Aquatech organizations covering scope boundaries, responsibilities, shared resources, interfaces, deliverables, schedules, communication requirements, governance, reporting, and escalation paths.
Drive implementation and organizational adoption of the Global Execution Model, including maintaining an integrated implementation schedule, tracking commitments and dependencies, identifying resource constraints and barriers, facilitating resolution and escalation, and driving actions to completion.
Implement consistent reviews, reporting requirements, dashboards, KPIs, action tracking, decision tracking, and follow-through to measure progress and identify overdue actions, resource constraints, dependencies, and issues requiring resolution.
Document and implement matrix-organization interfaces, scope boundaries, stakeholder agreements, roles and responsibilities, decision rights, shared-resource expectations, communication requirements, governance, reporting, and escalation paths.
Track agreed actions and deliverables to completion and reinforce accountability across participating organizations.
Organize and communicate business-performance information using business and financial understanding.