Technical Program Manager, Factory Design

ALTEN Technology USA; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering leader helping clients bring groundbreaking innovations to life across industries, including aerospace, medical, robotics, and automotive.

The Technical Program Manager – Industrial Engineering (Factory Design) will lead factory design programs from concept through handoff, coordinating with IE, Manufacturing, Facilities, and Construction teams to ensure on-time delivery and project governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Construction Management, or related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of technical project or program management experience in manufacturing, industrial engineering, factory design, construction, or related environments.
• Strong understanding of factory layouts, equipment integration, material flow, infrastructure planning, and manufacturing operations.
• Experience managing cross-functional projects involving engineering, construction, facilities, and operational stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience with MaintainX, Quickbase, or similar change management and workflow tracking systems.

Responsibilities

• Leading factory design programs from concept development through engineering reviews, construction readiness, implementation, and operational handoff.
• Developing and maintaining integrated project schedules, milestones, resource plans, and deliverables to ensure alignment with business and operational objectives.
• Coordinating with Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Facilities, Construction, Operations, and EHS teams to define project scope, requirements, priorities, and execution plans.
• Managing the full change request lifecycle through systems such as MaintainX, Quickbase, or similar platforms, including initiation, approvals, execution tracking, and closure.
• Driving factory layout governance activities, including equipment placement reviews, space allocation planning, design approvals, and revision management.
• Identifying and proactively managing design changes, execution risks, infrastructure constraints, and schedule dependencies.
• Facilitating cross-functional decision-making and ensuring stakeholder alignment to maintain project timelines and commitments.
• Maintaining project dashboards, milestone trackers, action logs, decision registers, and status reports to provide program visibility.
• Coordinating engineering deliverables with construction schedules, equipment installations, commissioning activities, and operational readiness plans.
• Supporting continuous improvement of project management, design review, approval, and documentation processes.

Skills

PM experience

Communication

Leadership

Organizational

Problem solving

Education

Engineering degree

Tools

AutoCAD

Navisworks

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Bluebeam

Job description

ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering leader helping clients bring groundbreaking innovations to life across industries, including aerospace, medical, robotics, and automotive.

The Technical Program Manager – Industrial Engineering (Factory Design) will lead factory design programs from concept through handoff, coordinating with IE, Manufacturing, Facilities, and Construction teams to ensure on-time delivery and project governance.