Classification: Full-Time Employee (W-2) – Open to Part-Time arrangements that transition to Full-Time within 6 months Location: Position Overview Catania Product Development is seeking a Technical Project Manager with recent systems engineering experience to take direct responsibility for the successful execution of multiple complex technical projects and programs. This role requires an engineering-degreed leader who can see the broader system, connect work across disciplines, anticipate technical and programmatic risks, and drive issues to resolution before they impact project outcomes.
In addition to project leadership, this person will perform meaningful systems engineering work directly, including requirements development, interface definition, technical planning, integration strategy, and verification planning. The right candidate is highly proactive, technically credible, results-driven, and accountable for keeping teams, stakeholders, and project execution aligned.
Catania Product Development is an innovative product design and engineering services company operating in a fast-paced, high-tech, and creative environment. We offer a family-friendly atmosphere, flexible work structure, and the opportunity to take real ownership of challenging projects from concept through build, integration, and test. Our work is especially rewarding for those who value accountability, enjoy solving hard problems, and find fulfillment in seeing products come to life from start to finish. Many of our efforts support start-ups and small-to-medium businesses, giving team members the chance to help turn ideas into real, working products across a diverse range of applications.
Core Responsibilities Project & Program Ownership * Own execution and outcomes across multiple concurrent technical projects and programs * Maintain alignment across scope, schedule, technical progress, resources, risks, dependencies, customer expectations and open actions * Ensure engineers, stakeholders, subcontractors, contractors, vendors, and other contributors understand and execute what is necessary for project success * Drive decisions, action items, risks, and technical issues to closure while maintaining momentum across competing priorities * Maintain clear visibility into project health, priorities, dependencies, and risks * Rapidly context-switch between projects while retaining critical technical and programmatic detail
Systems Engineering * Develop, refine, and manage system and subsystem requirements, including translating customer needs and use cases into clear, testable requirements * Define and manage interfaces across mechanical, electrical, software, firmware, manufacturing, integration, and test functions * Establish practical systems engineering discipline and documentation that can scale as Catania grows
Integration, Verification & Technical Planning * Identify technical, schedule, resource, supplier, and execution risks early and establish practical mitigation or recovery plans * Anticipate likely outcomes and second-order impacts before they become immediate problems * Continuously look for opportunities to reduce risk, eliminate unnecessary work, and improve project efficiency
Customer & Stakeholder Management * Maintain strong awareness of customer and team confidence, concerns, priorities, and overall engagement * Recognize verbal and non-verbal cues during customer and team interactions and recognize when concerns, hesitation, disagreement, or loss of confidence that may not be stated directly * Consider both explicit statements and unstated signals when anticipating likely project, customer, or relationship outcomes * Build trust through responsiveness, transparency, follow-through, and awareness of how project execution is being perceived by customers and the team
Participate meaningfully in detailed technical discussions across multiple engineering disciplines * Take clear, technically accurate notes and convert discussions into decisions, owners, actions, risks, assumptions, and due dates * Maintain organized records of requirements, interfaces, decisions, risks, open issues, and project status
Required Qualifications Applicant must be a US citizen. Engineering & Systems Foundation * Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or relevant engineering discipline * 10+ years of combined professional engineering and technical project/program leadership experience * Recent, substantive systems engineering experience within the past 5 years * Demonstrated experience developing and managing requirements, interfaces, verification approaches, and cross-functional technical execution * Experience with system architecture, requirements decomposition, technical tradeoffs, integration planning, and verification/validation * Ability to understand complex hardware or integrated systems well enough to connect decisions across engineering disciplines
Project Leadership & Execution * Demonstrated experience owning complex technical projects or programs and taking responsibility for overall outcomes * Strong risk-management instincts and demonstrated ability to anticipate downstream impacts * Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and context-switch rapidly without losing critical technical or program detail * Experience coordinating engineers, stakeholders, subcontractors, contractors, vendors, and other external contributors * Strong interpersonal and situational awareness, with the ability to read customer and team dynamics and recognize concerns that may not be explicitly stated * Demonstrated ability to anticipate likely outcomes by combining technical facts, project conditions, stakeholder behavior, and customer feedback * Excellent written, verbal, and technical note-taking skills * Strong customer and stakeholder awareness, including the ability to recognize concerns that may not be explicitly stated * Ability to work in person from Catania's Melbourne, Florida office at least 4 days per week
Preferred Qualifications · Bachelor's or advanced degree in Systems Engineering * PMP certification * Experience with commercial product development * Experience with formal requirements management tools or structured requirements databases * Strong Microsoft Project / IMS scheduling experience * Experience with both waterfall and agile-based development environments * Experience establishing or improving systems engineering processes in a growing engineering organization
Work Environment & Expectations This role is for someone who naturally stays ahead of both the project and the system. Success depends on understanding how technical decisions interact across disciplines, identifying problems before they mature, engaging the right people quickly, and maintaining accountability for both engineering execution and overall project outcomes.
The Technical Project Manager is not expected to personally make every discipline-level design decision. Additional Information · Compensation structure, scope, and engagement terms will be defined in the offer or contract agreement, as applicable
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