Senior Technical Project Manager

$101,000 - $150,000/Yr

Applied Research Associates - Warrendale, PA

Full-time - Mid Level

Warrendale, PA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Neya Systems is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to oversee the successful delivery of engineering solutions in the field of advanced robotics. This role involves managing project timelines, budgets, and resources while collaborating with various teams to ensure alignment with customer goals and objectives. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong leadership, organizational skills, and the ability to foster effective relationships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage and ensure successful, on-time, on-budget delivery of engineering solutions.
• Collaborate across software, systems, autonomy, hardware, operations, and testing teams to achieve program-level activities and milestones.
• Remove obstacles to drive clarity and progress, manage issue escalations, and support teams in balancing competing priorities.
• Manage direct labor, profit, and earned value across project timelines in alignment with corporate financial tracking requirements.
• Oversee the full lifecycle of robotics programs and lead execution of tasks within functional areas.
• Track, forecast, and report project financial status.
• Lead, manage, and accelerate cross-team projects spanning multiple functional teams and initiatives.
• Facilitate iteration planning, reviews, and meetings, and scope/requirement discussions with technical teams and customers.
• Guide team in estimating work and facilitate time estimation.
• Ensure successful iteration execution and communicate with management, team, and customers.
• Support the team in coordinating and tracking various projects and providing detailed reports.
• Accountable for supporting the team in timely project completion and delivery.
• Analyze and update existing and active work plans and schedules using project management software.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Robotics, or related field.
• At least 8 years of experience in project management, controlling budgets, and resource/task management.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in the robotics or autonomy domain areas.
• Knowledge of general autonomous system software and hardware, including perception and simulation methods.
• Experience with software development lifecycles, delivery, and integration cycles.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Office Suite, software configuration tools, and management systems.
• Strong teamwork, communication, and presentation skills.
• Experience with medium to large projects.
• Strong ability to engage and manage tasking of cross-functional teams of varying skills and experience.
• Superb written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to identify gaps, remove obstacles, prioritize, multitask, and work within deadlines.

Nice-to-haves

• PMP certification is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor junior team members.
• Some experience writing production-quality object-oriented code in C++, using a git-based workflow in a Linux environment is preferred.
• Previous experience in agile methodology is preferred.
• At least 2 years in a supervisory capacity.

Benefits

• Premium Healthcare Benefits: Medical, dental and vision benefits with Neya covering 100% of the plan premium for you and your dependents.
• Basic Life/AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance, 100% of plan premiums covered by Neya.
• Generous company holidays, all floatable throughout the fiscal year.
• Competitive paid time off (PTO) offering 20 days accrued per year.
• Employees are eligible for contributions through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and 401(k) retirement savings plan, including traditional and Roth 401(k).