Engineering Project Management & Systems Engineering Manager

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Position:                     Engineering Project Management & Systems Engineering Manager  (previously Engineering Resource Planner)

Division:                     Innovative Solutions

Department:              Innovative Solutions

Status:                        Full-Time

Overview: The Engineering Project Management & Systems Engineering Manager owns the engineering-wide planning and project-controls process in Tier IV Pro, coordinates pre-award engineering estimate and feasibility inputs for Sales, and administers the post-purchase-order standards applicability review and technical handoff. The role manages the Engineering Data Analyst and Technical Product Solutions Engineer. It does not direct engineering personnel, establish work priorities, approve designs or system architectures, enforce standards during design, or own engineering package quality and release.

Organizational Structure:  Engineering is organized into Teams and Disciplines within the Innovative Solutions Division. The Mechanical Engineering Manager serves as the technical authority for the Mechanical Engineering Team, supporting all Innovative Solutions Teams and ensuring cross-discipline technical integrity.

• Teams:
• Team 1 – Standards and Modularity: Builds and maintains engineering standards, modules, templates, and rules enabling repeatability and scale.
• Team 2 – Design: Executes project-level engineering using established standards and less complex custom configurations.
• Team 3 – Advanced: Develops novel systems and resolves first-of-kind engineering challenges.
• Team 4 – Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering: Ensures manufacturability, safety, engineering intent, efficiency, and continuous improvement throughout Production.

• Disciplines:
• Mechanical Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• IT Engineering
• Human Factor Engineering
• Software Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Maintain cross-disciplinary engineering capacity planning and project controls in Tier IV Pro:
• Maintain a consolidated engineering-wide capacity and demand forecast in Tier IV Pro Project Management Software using resource availability, commitments, and execution priorities provided by Project Managers, Discipline Managers, and Engineering Program Directors (e.g., Director of Advanced Engineering and Director of Containerization). Identify capacity gaps and recommend alternatives for approval by the appropriate resource owners. 
• Consolidate planned and actual engineering hours, staffing demand, forecast-to-complete, and task-status information submitted by responsible leaders. Work with Engineering Data Analyst to report trends, data quality concerns, and resource conflicts for leadership decisions.
• Discipline Managers and Engineering Program Directors are responsible for delivering accurate, complete, and on-time engineering packages to Production.  This role is responsible for assisting with recovery planning.  
• Coordinate pre-award engineering estimates and feasibility inputs:
  • Administer the engineering review process for Sales proposals, RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs. Ensure estimates, assumptions, exclusions, identified risks, and feasibility responses are obtained from the responsible technical and execution authorities and accurately recorded before proposal submission. 
  • Manage the Technical Product Solutions Engineer and Engineering Data Analyst in assembling and tracking discipline inputs from ME, EE, ITE, ESE, MFE, and other applicable groups. Discipline Managers and engineering execution leaders validate design feasibility, execution estimates, and commitments; this role coordinates completion and documentation of those reviews.
  • Work with the Director of Standards and Sales Engineering to provide feedback on proposals that align with the standardization
  • Directly engage with the Sales Engineer and ensure collaboration and feedback are incorporated in the proposal review process.  
  • Responsible for updating and maintaining the Engineering Hours Estimator to ensure accuracy based on actual reported engineering time.  
• Administer post-PO standards identification and project handoff:
• At purchase-order receipt, work with the Director of Standards to organize an initial review of project scope against the existing standards library. Collect input from responsible engineering leaders to identify candidate reusable standards or modules, open questions, and potential exceptions. 
  
• Deliver a documented standards-screening summary, outstanding decisions, and action owners to the Project Manager recommending changes that limit customization.  

Additional Essential Responsibilities:

• Pre-award systems engineering coordination & handoff administration:
• Through the Technical Product Solutions Engineer, coordinate collection of customer requirements, interface questions, compliance inputs, and feasibility requests during proposal development. Discipline managers and technical owners perform and approve architecture, systems integration, design trade studies, requirements verification, and technical decisions.
• Schedule and document pre-award technical reviews and project handoff discussions, including participation, decisions, unresolved questions, and action owners. 
• Maintain a register of unresolved proposal and handoff technical questions and route them to accountable engineering owners. 
• Track custom proposal or contract requirements for further feedback if they change at PO.
• Improve proposal review records, engineering estimate templates, Tier IV Pro resource-planning data quality, and Sales-to-project handoff procedures. 
• Team leadership & direct reports:
• Directly manage the Engineering Data Analyst and Technical Product Solutions Engineer, setting priorities, assigning work, coaching performance, and holding each role accountable for timely and accurate deliverables.
• Guide the Engineering Data Analyst in producing data needed by VP Ops.
• Ensure direct reports understand resource utilization, staffing forecasts, planned-versus-actual labor, estimating accuracy, schedule performance, and decision-support reporting.
• Guide the Technical Product Solutions Engineer in proposal technical governance, multidisciplinary feasibility reviews, engineering estimates, requirements clarification, contract review, and Sales-to-project technical handoff.
• Work with Engineering Program Directors and Discipline Managers to obtain capacity, estimate, and status inputs; escalate unresolved cross-project constraints through agreed leadership channels. 
• Engineering project controls, reporting, & coordination:
• Administer reporting standards and consolidate Tier IV Pro task status, actual hours, remaining-hour forecasts, and resource demand supplied by accountable project and discipline leaders. Refer missing or inconsistent execution data to Discipline Managers and Program
  Director for resolution.
• Provide cross-project engineering capacity and forecast reports based on project schedules and delivery commitments owned by Project Managers and as set forth in Tier IV Pro.
• Coordinate resource-capacity reviews and proposal-to-project handoff meetings; document approved decisions and communicate unresolved staffing, estimating, or handoff issues to the responsible owners.
• Lead improvements to cross-project capacity reporting, proposal estimating governance, and handoff documentation.  Discipline Managers and Program Directors are responsible for execution improvements, standards adoption enforcement, design quality initiatives, or engineering integration activities.

Education and Experience:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in project management or a PMP with relevant
  
• Experience administering multi-project engineering resource planning and project controls across disciplines, with clear respect for the decision authority of Project Managers, Discipline Managers, and Program Directors.
• Working knowledge of systems engineering terminology, requirements capture, interfaces, feasibility review, and technical risk documentation sufficient to coordinate pre-award reviews and handoffs, without responsibility for detailed design, systems architecture approval, or technical integration execution.
• Experience using project management and resource planning software to manage engineering workloads, actual hours, forecast completion, and progress reporting.
• Excellent communication skills and demonstrated ability to manage technical professionals, communicate with Sales and Project Management, resolve cross-functional priorities, and translate engineering assessments into actionable project decisions.

Preferred:

• Experience in complex manufacturing, including proposal-to-project handoff and engineering standards reuse.
• Experience coordinating technical proposal reviews, requirements handoffs, engineering estimating, resource forecasting, and reporting; familiarity with systems engineering methods and MBSE terminology is beneficial.

Physical Demands:

• Ability to stand and sit for extended periods.
• Manual dexterity to operate office equipment.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.

Working Environment:

• Professional office environment with regular interaction with guests, clients, team members, and vendors.
• Typical indoor manufacturing environment. Noise level is usually moderate. Safety glasses and closed-toe shoes are required when on the production floor.
• Everyday workwear must be business casual/smart casual and appropriate for the office environment.
• Subject to temperatures fluctuations if/when job duties require time on the production floor.
• Expected to maintain a professional image and demeanor on company property and while representing the company off-site.

Nomad GCS is an equal opportunity employer,(EOE,) and voluntarily follows affirmative action guidelines.  As an equal opportunity employer, Nomad GCS does not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable state and local laws.