Staff Project Engineer, Digital

The role

The Digital Principal Project Engineer drives execution across enterprise digital programs including PLM, ERP, MES, QMS, supply chain, data, and AI platforms. This role coordinates deliverables, manages dependencies, and tracks decisions across Digital teams, engineering, and business stakeholders.

What you will do

• Drive end-to-end execution of enterprise digital programs from requirements through go-live and adoption.
• Build and maintain integrated program plans, roadmaps, milestones, and critical paths.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities among Digital, IT, security, engineering, manufacturing, and other stakeholders.
• Manage implementation partners and software vendors against statements of work and milestones.
• Track system integration dependencies, data flows, open actions, and decision logs.
• Plan and coordinate environment promotion, data migration, cutover, and hypercare.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing, validation, and release readiness.
• Engage information security and export control to respect ITAR and CUI boundaries.
• Identify technical, schedule, integration, and adoption risks and drive mitigation.
• Lead recurring program reviews, steering meetings, and go-live readiness reviews.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information systems, industrial engineering, or a related technical field; equivalent professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in technical program management, enterprise systems program management, systems integration, technical project engineering, or a closely related role.
• Experience leading deployments of enterprise systems such as PLM, ERP, MES, or QMS from requirements through go-live.
• Experience managing integrated schedules, dependencies, risks, action registers, and program reviews across concurrent technical workstreams.
• Experience managing implementation partners and software vendors against statements of work and milestones.
• Strong working knowledge of system integration, data migration, cutover planning, user acceptance testing, and release management.
• Working knowledge of how engineering and manufacturing data flows across the product lifecycle.
• Ability to communicate credibly with engineers, business users, partners, and executive leadership.
• Experience in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities, aggressive milestones, and concurrent deployments.
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, or similar tools for work tracking, scheduling, and program reporting.

Nice to have

• Experience in aerospace, defense, or other regulated manufacturing environments
• PMP or PgMP certification

Benefits

• Equity participation
• Growth opportunities
• Health benefits
• Vision
• Dental
• 401(k)

Before you apply

• All final candidates must successfully complete a background check and drug screening as a condition of employment.

About the company

Neon Aero, Inc is an aerospace company that combines start-up agility with aerospace expertise to design, build, and scale aircraft using automation, AI-driven tools, and a digital backbone.