Technical Project Manager

VEIR • Woburn, MA

8h

About The Position

The Technical Project Manager drives day-to-day execution of VEIR product development programs against the Product Development Process. The role builds and maintains integrated schedules with engineering, product management, supply chain, manufacturing, and operations; tracks deliverables to completion; identifies interdependencies and blockers; and keeps Exit Gate deliverables on track. It takes planning and tracking work off functional leads and helps make execution predictable.

This is an execution-focused role, not merely a reporting function. The Technical Project Manager challenges dates, estimates, and readiness claims; convenes cross-functional teams to investigate test failures, supplier slips, or design issues; and drives root-cause analysis and credible recovery plans with named owners and dates. The role also develops contingency options, manages risks and issues, supports resource and cost forecasting, and provides clear status reporting with assessments and recommended actions.

The position supports Commercial Project Managers by providing engineering deliverable status, hardware readiness updates, and installation, commissioning, and O&M documentation for customer projects. Success includes accurate schedules that teams use, predictable gate reviews, early risk mitigation, timely recovery plans, and reduced planning and tracking administration for functional leads.

Requirements

• 4–8 years of technical project or program management experience in hardware product development.
• Experience building an integrated schedule from scratch across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Familiarity with phase-gate product development and the deliverables typically required at each gate.
• Technical fluency across engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing sufficient to challenge estimates and readiness claims.
• Engineering degree or equivalent hands-on technical background.
• Demonstrated experience driving a cross-functional team to root cause and a recovery plan after a test failure, supplier miss, or schedule slip.
• Proficiency with project management and tracking tools such as Monday.com, MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Asana, or similar.
• Strong communication skills, including concise written updates, effective meetings, and comfort driving accountability across teams.
• Organized, persistent, and detail-oriented, with judgment about which details matter.
• Outcome-oriented problem-solving approach and energy for hard problems.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with power electronics, low- and medium-voltage systems, cabling, cryogenics, or other complex electromechanical hardware.
• Prototype-to-production or NPI experience at a hardware startup.
• Exposure to supply chain or manufacturing planning.

Responsibilities

• Challenge assumptions behind program dates, estimates, and readiness claims, and verify that plans are credible.
• Convene cross-functional teams when test failures, supplier slips, or design issues arise; drive root-cause analysis and recovery plans with named owners and dates.
• Develop and pressure-test contingency options alongside the primary program plan.
• Build integrated schedules with engineering, product management, supply chain, manufacturing, and operations, including dependencies and critical paths.
• Track cross-functional deliverables through completion, including engineering releases, part qualification, procurement, build readiness, test execution, and documentation.
• Maintain Exit Gate deliverable tracking for assigned programs and drive open items to closure ahead of gate reviews.
• Run program meetings that produce decisions, owners, and dates, and follow up through closure.
• Identify cross-functional interdependencies and emerging risks, and work with responsible teams on practical mitigation options.
• Maintain program risk and issue logs; escalate to the Principal Technical Program Manager with context and a recommended path.
• Support resource and cost forecasting for engineering, product management, supply chain, manufacturing, and operations deliverables.
• Produce clear, consistent status reports that distinguish on-track from at-risk work and identify needed decisions.
• Drive accountability for commitments across functions through professional and persistent follow-up.
• Support Commercial Project Managers with engineering deliverable status, hardware readiness, and installation, commissioning, and O&M documentation for customer projects.

Benefits

• Healthcare coverage with 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums.
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Program.
• 12 company holidays and unmetered PTO.
• 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for all new parents.
• Stock options.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Regular team-building events, off-sites, and lunch-and-learns.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed