The scale and complexity of engineering change management demands coordinated activities across both daily urgent activities and long-term strategic initiatives. As an adept of "working yourself out of a job," this TPM will lead the critical process and tool improvements required to protect production stability while enabling rapid innovation cycles.
Program Ownership & Governance
Hold single-threaded ownership of the Engineering Change Control programs, managing both software and hardware change streams across Leo manufacturing and test operations
Manage the Engineering Change Implementation Board and Software Production Implementation mechanisms, ensuring structured intake, risk classification, and approval of all changes
Maintain the single source of truth for the change schedule, developed collaboratively with stakeholders across production, test, quality, and operations
Serve as the primary escalation point for production-impacting changes, coordinating rapid response to quality gaps and engineering-driven stoppages
Lead continuous improvement initiatives targeting automation of change intake, validation, and deployment workflows
Conduct post-release reviews to capture lessons learned and feed improvements back into the process
Impact Assessment & Change Introduction
Lead cross-functional impact assessments for changes being cut-in, reworked, or phased into production — evaluating effects on first-pass yield (FPY), cycle time, test throughput, and downstream operations
Drive cut-in planning for hardware block changes, managing effectivity dates, WIP disposition, and rework scope across the production floor
Partner with engineering (design, test, manufacturing, quality) to negotiate change requirements and represent the voice of production in design reviews
Define and track key performance indicators: software-related production disruptions, change cycle time, first-pass yield for software deployments, and change velocity
A day in the life
This role is highly collaborative, requiring active partnerships with cross-functional leaders across test engineering, manufacturing, software/firmware development, quality, and operations. You will advocate on behalf of production, pushing back on changes that lack sufficient validation rigor while enabling the speed of innovation Leo requires to scale. You should be comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity and energized by solving problems that haven't been solved at scale before.
About the team
This is a fast-paced, intellectually challenging position, and you'll work with leaders in multiple technology areas. You'll have relentlessly high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and you'll be constantly looking for ways to improve your product's performance, quality and cost. We want individuals who are ready for this challenge and want to reach beyond what is possible today.
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6+ years of technical product management, program management or engineering experience
3+ years of engineering experience
Experience managing technical programs across cross-functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
Experience in written and verbal communication with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to executives and non-technical leaders
Bachelor's degree in Engineering
8+ years of project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management experience
Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification
Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
Master's degree or above in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, or Master's degree in business administration, finance, economics, computer science, data science, engineering, or other related field
Experience in hardware design
Experience working in the aerospace or aviation industry
Experience in Configuration Management, preferably within aerospace or another highly regulated manufacturing environment.
Knowledge of enterprise resource planning (ERP), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and manufacturing execution system (MES) software.
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USA, WA, BELLEVUE - 137,300.00 - 185,700.00 USD annually
