Technical Program Manager – Industrial Engineering (Factory Design)

Key Responsibilities

•     Factory Design Execution: Oversee factory design projects from concept development through engineering reviews, construction readiness, and final implementation.

•     Project Planning and Tracking: Establish integrated project schedules, milestones, resource requirements, and deliverable commitments, ensuring forecasted completion dates align with operational deadlines.

•     Cross-Functional Scope Alignment: Coordinate with Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Facilities, Construction, EHS, and Operations to establish clear project scopes, technical requirements, responsibilities, and execution priorities.

•     Change Request Management: Own the end-to-end change request ticketing process in MaintainX or Quickbase, including request initiation, scope documentation, stakeholder assignments, approval tracking, execution follow-up, and closure.

•     Layout Planning and Governance: Coordinate factory master layout updates, equipment placement reviews, space allocation decisions, and design approvals to maintain alignment with manufacturing requirements.

•     Proactive Factory Design Coordination: Identify and initiate factory design change requests, represent Industrial Engineering priorities, and drive cross-functional decisions to support successful project delivery.

•     Risk and Commitment Management: Identify design conflicts, infrastructure constraints, and execution dependencies; proactively follow up with stakeholders to maintain schedule commitments, resolve delays, and protect operational milestones.

•     Program Visibility and Reporting: Maintain project dashboards, milestone trackers, decision logs, and progress reports to communicate schedule trends, stakeholder commitments, outstanding issues, and execution status.

•     Design Process and Construction Integration: Standardize design review, approval, and documentation workflows while coordinating engineering deliverables with construction schedules, equipment installations, and operational readiness.

Deliverables

•     Integrated factory design schedules, milestones, and program dashboards.

•     MaintainX/Quickbase change request records, including scope, ownership, approvals, and closure.

•     Stakeholder commitment trackers, action logs, and schedule variance reports.

•     Factory layout review, approval, and revision-control records.

•     Risk registers, decision logs, and weekly program status reports.

•     Construction handoff packages and operational readiness documentation.

Required Skills

•     Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical discipline.

•     5+ years of technical project or program management experience in manufacturing, factory design, industrial engineering, or construction.

•     Understanding of factory layouts, equipment integration, material flow, and infrastructure requirements.

•     Experience with MaintainX, Quickbase, or similar change management and ticketing systems.

•     Proficiency in project scheduling, stakeholder management, risk assessment, and progress reporting.

•     Working knowledge of AutoCAD, Navisworks, ACC, and Bluebeam.

•     Strong technical coordination, problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.

•     PMP certification preferred.