Engineering Project Manager (Sensors)

Location: Hybrid/onsite in the United States, with locations in NJ, VA, CO, FL, and IN; travel up to 50% to customer, integration, supplier, laboratory, and test locations.

Base salary: $95,000–$130,000 annually.

Company

Lyntris is a defense technology company developing integrated hardware and software solutions that connect sensing to action across space, air, land, sea, and cyber missions for U.S. and allied defense organizations.

What you will do

• Lead day-to-day execution of assigned engineering projects and work packages within the Sensors portfolio.
• Develop and maintain Microsoft Project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, resources, deliverables, and performance reports.
• Coordinate systems, RF, electrical, hardware, software, firmware, mechanical, integration and test, manufacturing, and quality activities.
• Support radar and sensor design reviews, testing, integration events, customer demonstrations, production transition, and field delivery.
• Track risks, issues, costs, resources, supplier deliverables, material availability, engineering changes, and configuration management activities.
• Serve as a project contact for internal teams, customers, suppliers, government stakeholders, and project leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an accredited engineering discipline; electrical, systems, mechanical, computer, or aerospace engineering is strongly aligned. An engineering degree is mandatory.
• At least three years of relevant professional experience in engineering project execution or project/program management, including progressively responsible coordination of multidisciplinary technical work.
• Current PMP certification in good standing or equivalent AWF Functional Area Certification.
• Expert-level Microsoft Project proficiency, including integrated schedule development, predecessor/successor logic, critical-path analysis, baseline and variance management, resource loading, and status reporting.
• Experience creating and maintaining work breakdown structures, schedules, action trackers, risk registers, resource forecasts, milestone plans, and project performance reports.
• Understanding of engineered-product lifecycles covering requirements, design, integration, verification, testing, production readiness, and delivery.
• Ability to coordinate technical contributors across organizational boundaries, communicate risks early, and deliver within approved scope and delegated authority.
• Working knowledge of project cost and resource management, planned-versus-actual tracking, estimate-to-complete inputs, schedule and budget variance reporting, and change control.
• Strong judgment, attention to detail, prioritization, follow-through, written and verbal communication, and executive-presentation skills; advanced Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and collaborative document-management skills.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance; an active U.S. national security clearance is required for the position.
• Availability to travel up to 50% and work periodically at customer, integration, supplier, laboratory, and test locations.

Nice to have

• Experience with U.S. Department of Defense major weapon systems or complex defense acquisition, modernization, and sustainment programs.
• Project management experience with radar, RF sensors, electronic warfare, fire-control, counter-UAS, naval combat systems, or related defense electronics.
• Experience with the Department of the Navy, Naval Surface Warfare Centers, military program offices, or government engineering activities.
• Familiarity with SRR, PDR, CDR, TRR, production readiness, and acceptance events.
• Experience coordinating long-lead hardware, suppliers, subcontractors, configuration management, engineering changes, manufacturing, and integration schedules.
• Knowledge of integrated master scheduling, earned value, Control Account Management, schedule and cost performance measures, Jira, Confluence, Power BI, Microsoft Power Platform, rapid prototyping, field integration, test-range activity, mission-system deployment, or product sustainment.
• Active-duty military experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time hybrid/onsite work supporting engineering laboratories, manufacturing, integration, government facilities, and test sites.
• Work may occur outside standard business hours for customer events, supplier activities, integration, testing, travel, or critical milestones.
• Paid time off and company holidays.
• Medical, dental, vision, HSA, FSA, life insurance, disability insurance, 401(k) matching, and an employee assistance program.
• Equal opportunity employment with consideration based on merit, qualifications, and business needs.