Technical Program Manager - Wilmington, MA (Onsite)

Russell Tobin; Wilmington (MA); On-site; USD 103,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Russell Tobin is seeking a Technical Program Manager to bring structure and visibility to a fast-moving manufacturing engineering environment. This role is hands-on, requiring presence on the floor and in engineering rooms to unblock blockers and drive continuous improvement.

You will migrate tracking from spreadsheets to Jira, develop dashboards, and formalize operational systems while partnering with Manufacturing leadership to align short and long-term commitments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in engineering, tech comm, business or related field.
• 3+ years in technical PM or program coordination in hardware/manufacturing environment.
• Proficiency in Jira configuration, workflows, dashboards and JQL.
• Experience migrating unstructured/spreadsheet tracking into structured PM tools.
• Strong technical writing for SOPs, process docs and program status reports.

Responsibilities

• Migrate Excel tracking to Jira with project structures, workflows, and dashboards.
• Integrate program data across Jira, Quickbase, Excel and dashboards for single source of truth.
• Create real-time dashboards for status, readiness, risk, and milestones for managers and leadership.
• Draft and maintain technical docs (SOPs, build procedures, logs) under leadership direction.
• Work on the floor with engineers to identify blockers and resolve them in person.
• Facilitate reviews, capture decisions and action items, drive follow-through.
• Track cross-functional actions, raising issues and risks with visibility across teams.
• Identify opportunities to automate recurring reporting and data aggregation.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Jira

Quickbase

Excel

Dashboards

Databases

Job description

Title: Technical Program Manager

Duration 3 Months

Location Wilmington, MA (Onsite)

Pay Rate Range: $75-80/hr (DOE)

Holidays: NO

OT: Potentially some but generally no

Hours: Typical business hours

Job Description

Client is seeking a Technical Program Manager to bring structure, visibility, and clarity to a fast-moving manufacturing engineering organization. Tactically, you’ll keep us on-track for our short term and long term commitments as a team. This is a floor-present, hands-on role – you unblock problems by showing up at desks and on the production floor, not by sending Slack messages to check in. Strategically, you’ll partner with Manufacturing leadership to formalize operational systems that keep the team aligned – migrating spreadsheet-based tracking into well-organized, scalable tooling (Jira, dashboards, databases), drafting technical documentation, and driving the program cadence that ensures nothing falls through the cracks.

The ideal candidate brings 3+ years of experience in a technical PM or program coordination role within a hardware or manufacturing environment. You should be the person who walks into a room full of engineers running on spreadsheets and hallway conversations, and six weeks later there's a Jira board everyone trusts, dashboards leadership can read, and documentation that doesn't live solely in someone's head. Strong technical writing skills are essential for internal clarity and program communications based on direction from engineering leadership.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Migrate existing Excel-based tracking systems into Jira – design project structures, workflows, issue types, and dashboards that match how the engineering team actually works. Make the tools serve the team, not the other way around.
• Connect program data across tools – Jira, Quickbase or similar databases, Excel, dashboards – to create a single-source-of-truth system for program tracking, material readiness, build status, and risk management.
• Create and maintain dashboards that give real-time visibility into program status, build readiness, material risk, open actions, and key milestones – designed for engineering managers and senior leadership to consume without a walkthrough.
• Draft and maintain technical documentation under engineering leadership direction – SOPs, build procedures, process documents, lessons-learned reports, decision logs, and program status updates. You produce the polished output alongside the vision of engineering leadership.
• Be physically present – walk the floor, sit with engineers, attend builds. Identify blockers firsthand and help resolve them in person. Status updates should come from what you've seen, fixed and heard, not from pinging people on Slack.
• Ensure meetings produce outcomes – facilitate key reviews, capture decisions and action items, and drive follow-through. Keep the team's commitments visible and on track.
• Track and drive cross-functional action items to closure – when items are stuck, go find out why in person. Provide visibility into what's open and what's at risk across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, and quality.
• Identify opportunities to automate or streamline recurring reporting, status collection, and data aggregation. If you're copy-pasting the same data into three places, fix it.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Technical Communication, Business, or equivalent discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in a technical program management or project coordination role in a hardware, manufacturing, or engineering environment.
• Proficiency in Jira – including project configuration, workflow design, custom fields, dashboards, and JQL. Not just a user; someone who can set up and administer projects.
• Experience migrating unstructured or spreadsheet-based tracking into structured project management tools.
• Strong technical writing and drafting skills – ability to take direction from engineering leadership and produce clear, concise documentation for both technical and executive audiences. Comfortable drafting SOPs, process docs, decision logs, and program status reports.
• Proficiency in Excel / Google Sheets for data analysis, pivot tables, and reporting.
• Basic proficiency with databases (Quickbase or similar) – comfortable navigating, querying, and building simple reports and views.
• Comfortable in a manufacturing environment – willing to be on the floor daily, sit with engineers, and engage directly with operators and technicians to understand what's working and what's blocked.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a hardware NPI or manufacturing environment – familiarity with build schedules, BOM tracking, material readiness, and engineering change processes
• Familiarity with dashboard/visualization tools (QuickSight, Tableau, Power BI)
• Experience supporting cross-functional programs with engineering, supply chain, quality, and manufacturing stakeholders

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