Strategic Engineering Project Manager

MSA, The Safety Company; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

MSA, The Safety Company is seeking a Senior Engineering Project Specialist/Engineering Project Manager I/II in Cranberry Township, PA. This full-time role leads cross-functional, geographically distributed teams to deliver critical NPD initiatives.

You will manage scope, schedule, and budgets, while engaging senior stakeholders and guiding change management across projects. The position requires extensive PM experience, CAP-M or PMP progress, and strong communication skills to enable

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of project management experience in cross-functional and/or geographically diverse New Product Development projects from discovery through deployment with proven track record of successful delivery and subsequent value realization.
• Minimum of 10 years experience working within R&D as an individual contributor, and/or project manager.
• Experience working within multi-discipline engineering teams including mechanical, electrical and software.
• CAP-M or significant progress towards PMP® (Project Management Professional).
• Experience managing projects through formal StageGate New Product Development process, including design reviews, technical readiness reviews, and release gating.
• Working knowledge of mechanical design processes: tolerance development, prototyping, tooling / production methodologies, etc.
• Familiarity with electronics development: PCB build cycles, firmware integration, debugging workflows, and similar
• Understanding of software development methodologies
• Ability to understand and communicate system architecture, interface dependencies, and integration risks.
• Highly developed emotional intelligence with a leadership mindset to navigate project team challenges, establish trust, enhance collaboration, build relationships, drive engagement, ensure alignment, and influence without direct authority.
• Advanced project management acumen needed to adapt to complex project environments, solve ambiguous problems, and drive strategic decision-making.
• Advanced knowledge of, and experience implementing, project management methodologies and strategies to effectively and efficiently manage stakeholders, quality, schedule, scope, budget, resources, and risks.
• Advanced capability in technical risk quantification, scenario modeling, and mitigation planning.
• Ability to lead teams in developing and tracking product technical risk registers.
• Skilled at proactively and strategically communicating to inform and collaborate with project teams and stakeholders on project progress, milestones, and potential hurdles.
• Executive presence and experience working directly with senior leaders, including ability to prepare and confidently, succinctly, and tactfully present.
• Understanding of change management expertise necessary to facilitate the adoption, functional ownership, and sustainment of deployed projects.
• Strong customer focus, with ability to support driving tasks to completion to ensure on-time delivery while meeting or exceeding expectations.
• Strong time management and organization ability to prioritize tasks, manage individual backlog, and complete tasks on time.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including formal presentation skills and ability to tailor messaging to audience.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional projects of significant strategic impact, deploying project management expertise to ensure delivery of project deliverables that meet or exceed customer expectations.
• Effectively execute processes across initiation, planning, managing, monitoring/controlling, and closing projects, including schedule, scope, budget, quality, resources, and risks.
• Measure and analyze project performance using appropriate tools and techniques to monitor progress, identify variance, and perform corrective actions.
• Develop functional area knowledge to evaluate risk, drive decision making, and challenge the team respectfully.
• Deliver clear, concise, and accurate complex project reports and develop impactful presentations for internal and external audiences.
• Drive continuous improvement by embracing and employing MBS, seeking opportunities for optimization, standardization, and cost savings.
• Share new ideas, lessons learned, and best practices with the team to improve future project execution.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Change management

Executive presence

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Discipline

Tools

SharePoint

Tempus

Miro

Teams

Confluence

Jira

SAP

MS Project

Job description

MSA, The Safety Company is seeking a Senior Engineering Project Specialist/Engineering Project Manager I/II in Cranberry Township, PA. This full-time role leads cross-functional, geographically distributed teams to deliver critical NPD initiatives.

You will manage scope, schedule, and budgets, while engaging senior stakeholders and guiding change management across projects. The position requires extensive PM experience, CAP-M or PMP progress, and strong communication skills to enable