Senior Engineering Project Manager - Milpitas, CA, United States
$155,250 - $258,750 USD yearly
Originally posted 20 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Senior Engineering Project Manager at Spectra-Physics, you will partner with development, marketing, and operations organizations, as well as business leaders, to drive the successful delivery of complex product development programs with end-to-end ownership for scope, schedule, cost, quality, and execution risk. This role involves leading cross-functional teams through ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring disciplined execution from concept through industrialization and transfer to manufacturing.
What you'll do
- Lead complex, cross-functional product development programs from early concept through industrialization and manufacturing transfer, with accountability for scope, schedule, cost, quality, and overall project health across geographically distributed teams.
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans that include milestones, dependencies, budgets, resource requirements, key deliverables, and phase-gate expectations.
- Provide leadership across engineering, product marketing, operations, supply chain, and manufacturing teams to align priorities, resolve roadblocks, and ensure timely delivery of business-critical objectives.
- Lead multi-site program coordination across U.S. and European development teams and offshore manufacturing teams to ensure alignment on priorities, schedules, deliverables, risks, and transfer-to-production readiness.
- Proactively identify, assess, and manage project risks and issues; drive mitigation and contingency planning; employ risk-reduction activities such as Design and Process FMEA, and DFx reviews.
- Serve as the primary communication lead for stakeholders and leadership, delivering clear, data-driven updates on progress, tradeoffs, decisions, risks, and changes.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in science, engineering, or another technical field.
- 10+ years of project or program management experience in the product development of complex technology systems.
- Demonstrated success leading multidisciplinary, technical teams and influencing cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
- Strong command of project planning, budgeting, resource management, risk management, issue escalation, and execution tracking across multiple workstreams and dependencies.
- Ability to rapidly understand technical concepts well enough to guide discussions, evaluate tradeoffs, support decision-making, and keep teams aligned to program objectives.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and experience using project planning, reporting, and portfolio management tools.
Nice to have
- Formal project management training or certification.
- Familiarity with Agile project management approaches, particularly in hardware or mixed hardware/software development environments.
- Familiarity with PPM tools and systems used for planning, portfolio visibility, resource management, and KPI reporting.
- Experience with structured product development processes, including phase-gate development methodologies and manufacturing transfer readiness.
- Familiarity with reliability, quality, and manufacturability practices such as D/PFMEA, DFx, root cause analysis, and structured problem-solving methodologies.
Skills: Engineering Project Manager, product development, risk management, manufacturing teams, phase-gate methodologies
This role has been open 57 days — slightly above the 49-day median for Technical Program Management roles.
Technical Program Management · Manufacturing Equipment
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Open roles in category
369
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Median days open
49 d
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Median salary
$149k
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| Metric | MKS Instruments | All employers we track in this specialty (369 roles · 41 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 369 |
| Median days open | 57 d | 49 d (+8 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $149k |
Skills observed across this category: Engineering Project Manager, product development, risk management, manufacturing teams, phase-gate methodologies
Who's hiring in this category
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How we counted: 369 open Technical Program Management (Manufacturing Equipment) roles from 41 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.