Director of Operations & Engineering Project Management

• Directly manage multiple simultaneous customer projects from purchase order through final acceptance.
  
  
• Develop and maintain project schedules, milestones, resource allocations, budgets, and deliverables.
  
  
• Lead project kickoff meetings, design reviews, customer progress meetings, and internal execution reviews.
  
  
• Coordinate electrical, mechanical, controls, software, purchasing, fabrication, and integration activities.
  
  
• Track engineering labor hours, material purchases, subcontractor costs, and remaining project budgets.
  
  
• Maintain accurate estimates at completion and identify potential project overruns early.
  
  
• Manage project scope, requirements, engineering changes, and customer change-order requests.
  
  
• Coordinate procurement, equipment builds, factory acceptance testing, shipment, installation, and site acceptance testing.
  
  
• Communicate project status, issues, risks, and recovery plans to customers and company leadership.
  
  
• Take direct responsibility for resolving technical, scheduling, resource, and supplier issues affecting project delivery.
  
  

• Provide day-to-day leadership to Darceo's electrical, mechanical, software, and automation engineering personnel.
  
  
• Assign engineering resources across active programs based on priorities, skill requirements, and customer commitments.
  
  
• Establish clear engineering deliverables, schedules, and accountability.
  
  
• Conduct regular engineering progress and design reviews.
  
  
• Support technical problem-solving and cross-disciplinary coordination.
  
  
• Develop employees through coaching, training, and performance feedback.
  
  
• Support recruiting, hiring, and long-term engineering resource planning.
  
  

• Manage project execution against approved budgets for labor, materials, subcontractors, and other direct costs.
  
  
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• Oversee project procurement planning, vendor coordination, and material delivery schedules.
  
  

• Develop and maintain standardized project management and engineering execution procedures.
  
  
• Establish consistent design review, engineering release, change control, and project closeout processes.
  
  
• Evaluate AI-enabled tools to improve engineering productivity, documentation, quoting, and project management.
  
  
• Work with company leadership on resource planning, facility expansion, and organizational growth.
  
  
• Help transition Darceo from a founder-led project management structure into a scalable engineering operations organization.
  
  

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology, or equivalent demonstrated technical experience.
  
  
• Minimum 10 years of experience in engineering, automation, custom equipment, automated test systems, or closely related industries.
  
  
• Minimum 5 years of direct technical project management or engineering leadership experience.
  
  
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams, including electrical, mechanical, controls, and software engineering.
  
  
• Strong understanding of project scheduling, budgeting, engineering labor estimation, material procurement, and cost-to-complete forecasting.
  
  
• Experience managing customer communication, technical reviews, project changes, and equipment acceptance.
  
  
• Willingness to take direct ownership of customer project delivery and operational performance.
  
  
• Previous engineering operations management experience in a small or midsize technical organization.