Job Title: Project EngineerJob DescriptionWe are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented Project Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for driving project schedules and deliverables, ensuring engineering activities stay on track, and escalating any risks or delays as necessary. You will collaborate closely with key stakeholders to manage technical priorities, customer requirements, and overall program execution.Responsibilities
- Own and drive project schedules, deliverables, and action items, ensuring engineering activities stay on track and escalating risks, delays, or roadblocks when needed.
- Partner closely with the Program Manager and Project Chief Engineer to coordinate technical priorities, customer requirements, project risks, spending updates, and overall program execution.
- Lead and facilitate weekly team meetings, bringing Engineering, PMO, Operations, Manufacturing, Quality, and other stakeholders together to identify priorities, assign actions, and drive tasks to completion.
- Serve as a highly organized Technical Project Manager within Engineering, regularly checking in with stakeholders, tracking milestones and work packages, maintaining project documentation, and ensuring commitments are completed on time.
- Collect and communicate project status, risks, technical data, decisions, and recommendations through dashboards, reports, meetings, and customer/program updates.
Essential Skills
- Bachelors degree in Engineering, Science, or another relevant technical field, with typically 5+ years of experience in project/program engineering.
- Extremely detail-oriented, organized, and schedule-driven, with the ability to relentlessly follow up on actions, recognize when activities are slipping, and escalate issues appropriately.
- Experience from regulated environments such as aerospace, defense, automotive, or medical.
- Strong understanding of project management fundamentals, including schedules, milestones, risk tracking, project lifecycle activities, KPIs, and ideally cost/schedule tracking or earned-value concepts.
- Proficiency with MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- CAPM, PMP, or progress toward a project management certification is a plus but not required.
- Experience in regulated industries such as aerospace and defense is ideal, or automotive or medical device.
Work EnvironmentThe role is primarily based in an office environment, with occasional visits to manufacturing and testing areas. You will be actively involved in physically meeting with key stakeholders of the program. Job Type & LocationThis is a Contract position based out of Twinsburg, OH. Pay and BenefitsThe pay range for this position is $38.00 - $43.00/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:
Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave) Job Type & LocationThis is a Contract position based out of Twinsburg, OH. Application DeadlineThis position is anticipated to close on Nov 11, 2026. Workplace TypeThis is a fully onsite position in Twinsburg,OH.About Actalent
Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.
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