SENIOR ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGER

Syntech is seeking an experienced, highly organized, and results-driven Engineering Project Manager to lead the planning, coordination, and execution of engineering initiatives across software, hardware, infrastructure, and product development teams.

The Engineering Project Manager serves as a key facilitator between Engineering, Product Management, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, Operations, and Executive Leadership to ensure projects are delivered on time, aligned with business priorities, and executed with a high degree of visibility and accountability.

This role combines traditional project management responsibilities with engineering coordination, roadmap management, stakeholder communication, and process improvement. The ideal candidate is a strong communicator, skilled organizer, and proactive problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment and can effectively balance multiple priorities across a diverse portfolio of engineering efforts.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Project Leadership

• Lead engineering projects through all phases of the project lifecycle from planning through deployment and post-release review.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, budgets, resource forecasts, and delivery timelines.
• Coordinate activities across software, embedded systems, quality assurance, infrastructure, and operations teams.
• Facilitate project kickoff meetings and establish clear goals, deliverables, and success criteria.
• Monitor progress and drive projects to successful completion.

Roadmap & Portfolio Management

• Maintain visibility into active projects, strategic initiatives, and engineering roadmaps.
• Coordinate dependencies across teams and departments.
• Support quarterly planning and prioritization activities.
• Assist leadership in evaluating project feasibility, resource requirements, schedules, and risks.
• Track project performance against established objectives and key milestones.

Communication & Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the primary point of contact for project status, risks, and delivery updates.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration between Engineering, Product, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, Operations, and Executive Leadership.
• Prepare project dashboards, status reports, and executive-level presentations.
• Ensure stakeholder expectations are aligned with project priorities, scope, and delivery commitments.

Risk & Issue Management

• Identify, document, and proactively manage project risks, issues, blockers, and dependencies.
• Coordinate mitigation plans and resolution efforts with project teams.
• Escalate significant concerns to management with recommended actions and recovery plans.
• Drive accountability for project commitments and action items.

Process Improvement & Governance

• Establish and promote consistent project management practices across engineering teams.
• Facilitate effective project meetings with structured agendas, clear ownership, and actionable outcomes.
• Maintain project documentation, dashboards, status reports, decision logs, and other project artifacts.
• Recommend improvements to planning processes, communication workflows, and engineering operations.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of experience managing technology, engineering, software, or product development projects.
• Requires a consistent and dependable work history, ideally reflecting 3-5 years of tenure with each previous employer.
• Strong understanding of software development and engineering delivery processes.
• Exceptional organizational, planning, and time management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and competing priorities.
• Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and communication skills.
• Experience creating project schedules, dashboards, status reports, and executive summaries.
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, or similar platforms.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, or other project management certification.
• Experience working with cross-functional engineering organizations.
• Experience supporting hardware, embedded systems, payment systems, fuel management, fleet management, or industrial technology products.
• Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrid project management methodologies.
• Experience facilitating planning, roadmap development, and portfolio management activities.

CLOSING DATE:  9/25/26

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