Senior Systems Project Leader - Cross-Functional & Customer

Brightpath Associates LLC; West Boylston (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Brightpath Associates LLC is seeking a senior technical lead to head multi-disciplinary project teams in Massachusetts. You will serve as the main customer interface, author key technical deliverables, and ensure requirements are defined, traceable, and aligned with program goals.

You will drive risk management, feasibility assessments, and design- for- manufacturability initiatives while ensuring compliance with SOWs, design reviews, and ISO processes.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product development experience with demonstrated success leading complex projects from concept through commercialization.
• Strong systems engineering background required.
• Strong skills in project management by influence rather than authority is crucial to this role.
• Experience providing technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams (mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, software, systems).
• Understanding of product development processes, design controls, requirements management, risk management, verification, and change control.

Responsibilities

• Lead project teams in alignment with company values and mission.
• Serve as the primary technical interface to the customer and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.
• Author and oversee FRDs, specifications, and design documentation.
• Ensure customer, regulatory, and system requirements are defined, maintained, and traceable.
• Identify and manage technical risks; develop mitigation plans and escalate issues as needed.
• Evaluate feasibility and ensure compliance with design review processes and standards.
• Drive DFX initiatives balancing performance, cost, quality, manufacturability, and production efficiency.
• Review and approve technical solutions; escalate concerns to leadership as needed.
• Contribute to project planning with WBS, schedules, resources, and effort estimates.
• Ensure execution aligns with SOWs and approved project plans.
• Identify scope changes, assess impact on schedule and effort, and coordinate with PM for negotiations.
• Provide technical leadership to multidisciplinary teams and ensure deliverables.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and program management.
• Maintain compliance with Tech-approved processes and documentation; time reporting.
• Maintain PHF per ISO processes with plans, specs, notes, BOMs, data, and results.
• Coordinate with Program Managers to allocate resources and support closeout reviews.

Skills

Systems engineering

Project leadership

Stakeholder management

Requirements management

Risk management

Design controls

SOW management

ERP / PDM familiarity

MS Office

Agile familiarity

Education

BS in Engineering

Tools

Kinetic (Epicor)

SolidWorks PDM

Job description

Brightpath Associates LLC is seeking a senior technical lead to head multi-disciplinary project teams in Massachusetts. You will serve as the main customer interface, author key technical deliverables, and ensure requirements are defined, traceable, and aligned with program goals.

You will drive risk management, feasibility assessments, and design- for- manufacturability initiatives while ensuring compliance with SOWs, design reviews, and ISO processes.