Engineering Project Manager

Benefits: Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance, 401k, sick leave, employee assistance program, PTO, paid holidays, and legal insurance.

Role & Responsibilities

We are seeking a Software Engineering Project Manager for an aerospace and defense technology company, which would be a great opportunity for someone with experience in software project planning, resource allocation, and distributed team coordination looking to further their career in engineering program management.

• Own planning, tracking, and delivery across all active software projects, building and maintaining project plans in Smartsheet.

• Track day-to-day engineering work in GitLab (issues, boards, milestones) and report status into JIRA for corporate visibility.

• Manage engineer resource allocation, preventing overcommitment and fragmentation across competing priorities.

• Control work intake, shield engineers from context-switching, and queue new requests when capacity is exceeded.

• Partner with engineering leads to continually reassess prioritization and focus on the highest-value work.

• Coordinate distributed teams across multiple continents and time zones using clear asynchronous communication.

• Surface risks, blockers, and resourcing conflicts early; facilitate standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives; report to leadership.

Essential Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Systems.

• 5+ years of project or program management experience, a significant portion managing software development projects.

• Experience allocating resources, prioritizing concurrent projects, and renegotiating scope or timelines with leadership.

• Proficiency with Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, or similar planning tools; JIRA and GitLab fluency or ability to learn quickly.

• Ability to translate technical work (features, bugs, dependencies) into clear status and risk updates for non-technical stakeholders.

Bonus Qualifications

• Prior software engineering background; PMP, CSM, SAFe, or similar certification.

• Experience managing global teams across time zones, Agile/Scrum, and bridging GitLab and JIRA tracking.

• Aerospace, defense, robotics, or other hardware-adjacent software experience.

Why Averro?

Averro is a veteran-owned staffing and solutions firm connecting top talent with cutting-edge companies. With 20+ years of experience and industry-specialized recruiters in your corner, we're here to propel your career forward.

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