Senior Program Manager - Business Execution

Aquatech International LLC•USA, PA

About The Position

Aquatech is entering a period of rapid global growth. The Senior Program Manager supports execution of the company’s global strategy by establishing the structure, coordination, reporting, and accountability needed to turn business priorities into completed actions and measurable results. This role acts as an internal execution and organizational integrator, coordinating initiatives across engineering, technology, project execution, commercial, supply chain, finance, HR, regional teams, and other Aquatech organizations. The role establishes implementation schedules, reporting and KPIs, organizational interfaces, stakeholder agreements, and mechanisms to track commitments and follow through. It works within Aquatech’s matrix organization, creating working agreements with internal and partner organizations covering scope, responsibilities, resources, interfaces, deliverables, schedules, governance, and reporting. Success depends on influence and coordination rather than direct authority. This is an internal program-execution role, not a customer project-management or PMO position. Project managers and functional organizations retain accountability for customer projects and technical deliverables. The Senior Program Manager applies program- and project-management discipline primarily to internal organizational, strategic, standardization, product-development, and business-improvement initiatives. Initial priorities include implementing the Global Execution Model; establishing a consistent operating and reporting cadence; and defining organizational interfaces, governance, and accountability. The position is expected to operate primarily as an individual contributor across a matrix organization. Functional, regional, engineering, project, and account organizations retain ownership of their respective scopes and deliverables.

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, with 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 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 the ability to organize complex issues into actionable information.
High degree of integrity, discretion, urgency, and sound judgment.

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 operating cadence, dashboards, KPIs, action tracking, decision logs, business reviews, and reporting processes that provide visibility into priorities, commitments, owners, milestones, risks, resource requirements, and completion status.
Convert business 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 involving 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 the 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 Aquatech and partner organizations that define 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 by maintaining the integrated implementation schedule, coordinating activities, tracking commitments and dependencies, identifying constraints and barriers, facilitating resolution and escalation, and driving actions to completion.
Implement a consistent business operating rhythm with defined reviews, reporting requirements, dashboards, KPIs, action and decision tracking, and follow-through.
Establish mechanisms to measure progress against business priorities and internal initiatives and identify overdue actions, resource constraints, dependencies, and issues requiring resolution.
Document and implement organizational interfaces, scope boundaries, stakeholder agreements, roles, 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.
Provide internal program-management structure, coordination, schedules, reporting, KPIs, stakeholder alignment, governance, and accountability mechanisms to support global strategy and internal organizational initiatives.