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Project Leader

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12.4% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. ALTEN Technology USA postings stay open a median of 32 days.

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  4. 20.0%14 days
  5. 35.5%30 days
  6. 58.6%60 days
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ALTEN Technology USA median: 32 days open

The posting

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.

Summary: The Project Leader has technical responsibility of Work Package projects with an estimated engineering count of 10-20 FTEs. The responsibilities of the Project Leader are to manage the technical project activities according to agreed deliverables, quality as well as ensuring compliance with customer requirements. Additional responsibilities are to qualify the internal staffing of projects, develop and adhere to project timeline and report the operational situation during internal reviews.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty in accordance with defined standards. Other duties or tasks may be assigned as required. The essential duties and responsibilities are as follows:

Customer/Bid & Offer

  • Review technical requirements set by customer
  • Participate in quotation activities
  • Support client meetings and on/off-site visits
  • Monitor delivery progress with the customer
  • Support negotiation with the customer

Project Management

  • Manage project team and tasks on a day-to-day basis
  • Report/communicate to external technical stakeholder
  • Monitor delivery progress on projects
  • Manage technical scope of projects
  • Responsible for quality of deliverables
  • Report on operational situation and potential risks internally
  • Evaluate activities/roles that should be near-/offshore, if any
  • Support definition of roles and responsibilities in project organization​
  • Support validation of project organization and team members
  • Monitor technical skills of team members
  • Identify technical/project training needs on projects
  • Support efforts to change/improve engagement model with clients
  • Support AI implementation

Minimum Qualifications and Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should meet each requirement. The requirements listed below are representative of the required knowledge, skills, and/or ability.

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from a technical college or university in Engineering
  • Minimum 5 years of total experience, including a minimum of 1 year in a Project Leadership role
  • General understanding of aerospace product development lifecycles, including design, engineering, testing, verification, and production.
  • Familiarity with cross-functional engineering environments involving mechanical, electrical, and systems engineering disciplines.
  • Ability to understand and communicate technical concepts effectively with engineering teams, customers, and other stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should be able to perform their essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of preferred knowledge, skills, and/or ability.

Education and Experience

  • Understanding requirements management, configuration control, engineering change management, and technical documentation.
  • Familiarity with aerospace industry standards, quality requirements, and regulatory frameworks, such as AS9100, FAA, and EASA.
  • Previous experience within aircraft systems, cabin systems, or aerospace equipment development.

Language Ability

  • Ability to read, write, speak, analyze and interpret all forms of communication and business correspondence.
  • Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the engineers.

Reasoning Ability

  • Ability to systematically analyze complex problems, draw relevant conclusions and implement appropriate solutions.
  • Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Computer Skills

  • To perform this job successfully, an individual should have extensive knowledge of the following software programs: Microsoft Office suite of programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, and Outlook).

Work Location and Eligibility Requirements

  • The Project Leader must reside within a reasonable commuting distance of Carson, California, as the position requires regular on-site presence at the client’s facility.
  • The Project Leader must be U.S. citizen or U.S. lawful permanent resident (Green Card holder) due to potential involvement in export-controlled projects and activities.

Physical Demands and Working Environment: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Physical Demands

  • While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit or stand.
  • The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
  • The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Salary Range: $140,000 + Bonus

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

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.

Please beware of job seeker scams and see this important notice on our careers page for more information about our recruiting process.

Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.

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