Project Manager - Product Engineering

About the role

Why Scott Safety: At Scott Safety, the work we do serves those who rely on our equipment to help keep them safe when it matters most. Across our business, our people turn expertise, innovation, and strong execution into products and experiences customers can depend on. Whatever your function, your contribution helps us serve customers and advance that purpose.

The Impact You Will Make: As a Project Manager, Product Engineering, you'll help bring together the people, priorities, and execution needed to ensure Scott Safety's life safety products continue to evolve, improve, and remain available to those who rely on them. Your leadership will help transform ideas into action, guiding critical engineering initiatives that strengthen product performance, support business continuity, and enable future growth. This is an opportunity to work at the center of cross-functional decision-making, collaborate with talented teams across the organization, and make a visible impact on products that help protect people when it matters most.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional engineering programs from concept through implementation, ensuring initiatives deliver expected business outcomes, customer value, and operational results.
• Manage a portfolio of product sustainment and engineering change projects, including supplier transitions, component obsolescence mitigation, manufacturing process improvements, business continuity initiatives, quality improvements, and cost optimization efforts.
• Own project planning and execution, developing schedules, budgets, resource plans, governance processes, and implementation strategies to ensure successful delivery.
• Drive alignment and accountability across stakeholders, serving as the central point of coordination between Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Regulatory, and other functional teams.
• Identify and mitigate risks, issues, and dependencies, removing obstacles, facilitating decision-making, and ensuring timely resolution of challenges that could impact project objectives.
• Support product portfolio planning and continuous improvement, providing project estimates, resource assessments, performance insights, and executive reporting to improve visibility, decision-making, and delivery effectiveness.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering from an accredited university.
• 5+ years of project management experience leading technical, engineering, manufacturing, or product-focused initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex cross-functional projects from planning through implementation, balancing competing priorities, stakeholders, and business objectives.
• Strong communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence decisions and drive alignment across diverse teams.
• Experience managing project schedules, resources, risks, and deliverables within a structured product development or manufacturing environment.

Preferred:

• Experience leading engineering change, product sustainment, business continuity, or product lifecycle management initiatives.
• Knowledge of engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, or regulatory processes associated with electro‑mechanical products.
• Experience managing projects involving supplier transitions, component obsolescence, product validation, process improvements, or corrective actions.
• Familiarity with project management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems, including ENOVIA.
• Experience working in highly regulated industries such as industrial safety, medical devices, aerospace, automotive, or defense.
• PMP® certification or equivalent project management training.

Working Conditions

• Work Environment: This role is required to work on-site at the Monroe, NC facility and is not a remote role.
• Physical Requirements: Ability to work at a computer for extended periods, communicate effectively with cross‑functional teams, and occasionally travel or move throughout office, engineering, manufacturing, or customer‑site environments. Must be able to perform essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Travel: May include up to 10% domestic/international travel.
• Other: Must be authorized to work in the country of employment without current or future employer sponsorship.

Benefits

• Relocation Assistance
• Medical & Dental Insurance
• 401(k) with Company Match
• Company Paid Holidays + Personal Holidays
• Vacation Days
• Bereavement & Caregiver Leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employee Discount Program
• Tax Advantaged Account (HSA)
• Paid Parental Leave
• Company Paid Basic Life/AD&D Insurance
• And more!