Project Director

About the role

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more. As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Responsibilities

• Technical Project Execution
  • Lead large high-tech, regulated, product development programs made of multiple projects with complex scopes, large project teams, or high levels of risk, while identifying new business opportunities.
  • Responsible for the overall success of a program including guiding projects within the program to be on-time, on-budget, and meeting or exceeding applicable quality standards.
  • If/when managing individual projects, responsible for project planning, staffing, budget, schedule, vendor management, and contractual deliverables.
  • Understand, communicate, and convince others about major programmatic tradeoffs and decisions. Maintain high-level program awareness to identify risks or necessary direction changes early in a program. Ensure milestones are met across the assigned program.
  • Identify, mitigate, manage, and coordinate risk across the assigned program.
  • Apply critical thinking and problem solving at a business level.
  • Generate and update all necessary reports and presentations to communicate program status, obtain necessary support, and maintain accountability.
  • Coordinate customer-specific processes for continuity across projects (e.g., IT onboarding, customer-specific training).
  • Maintain positive working relationships with continuity across projects and programs.
• Sales & Marketing Support
  • Participate in conferences and other business development events to encourage lasting relationships with customers and industry partners. May focus on specific industries or products.
  • Support business expansion efforts. Maintain positive, long-term working relationships with current customers.
  • Lead strategic phasing on large complex projects, practicing top-down estimating tactics.
  • Support all proposals within the program. Mentor project managers in gathering requirements, estimating scope, writing proposals, and strategically articulating product/project risks and assumptions.
  • Participate in marketing strategy discussions and implementation. Generate complex marketing materials under the direction of marketing personnel.
• Administrative/Process Improvement & Training
  • Adhere to ALTEN Technology Quality Management System processes by reviewing, comprehending, and maintaining training requirements of the position. May support internal and external audits. Identify and support process improvements with the assistance of the QA department.
  • Adhere to Scalable Product Development Processes (SPDP) by reviewing, comprehending, and maintaining training requirements of the position. May support internal and external audits. Identify and support process improvements with the assistance of the department director.
  • Identify and support process improvements within the Programs Group.
  • Complete training directed by managers: webinars, lunch & learns, and other internal/external learning opportunities.
  • Identify personal growth opportunities and request training of interest. Strategically identify training opportunities for others and support implementation. Lead training activities for new industries and markets. Train other personnel via lunch & learn presentations and/or mentoring.
• Leadership & Communication
  • Responsible for consistent reporting at a program level in coordination with the ALTEN account manager. Can lead or support elevation of project issues not being addressed by stakeholders.
  • Foster positive environments where candid discussions can occur to understand and meet customer expectations efficiently.
  • Respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints.
  • Initiate and facilitate meaningful discussions around complex issues. Lead internal change within the organization.
  • Identify and propose strategies around technical problems affecting their team, communicate standards, and gain buy-in on solutions.
  • Speak effectively in front of a group. Gain the support of the team/organization and redirect their thinking to accomplish a given goal or directive.
  • Interpret, add to, and execute against cross-functional plans. Work with key stakeholders to make critical decisions.
  • Motivate and empower teammates to achieve a higher level of performance.
  • Write papers and articles using original or innovative techniques or style. Make effective and persuasive arguments and presentations on controversial or complex topics to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
  • Communicate with manager, peers, and team members for clarification and to gain alignment.
  • Actively demonstrate strong skills in social awareness and relationship management to resolve issues/conflict. Use Emotional Intelligence (EI) knowledge to grow and lead teams and peers effectively.
  • Be familiar with ALTEN lessons learned applicable to the program for support of project managers.
  • Provide Project Manager oversight and guidance on the assigned program.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from a technical college or university in engineering or another technical/scientific discipline.
• 20 years of combined engineering and project management experience (minimum 5 years of engineering/product development experience, minimum 10 years of project lead/management experience in a technical field).
• Must possess hands-on experience with project management and project management leadership.
• Experience managing/executing software development projects.
• Project Management experience in a regulated product development environment.
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle and fundamentals.

Pay

Salary Range: $150,000 - $175,000 + Bonus

Location

Westminster, CO

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience.