Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Auris Noble LLC is hiring a Program Manager to coordinate technical and business teams and deliver existing federally funded projects and company growth programs. The role maintains program plans and performance baselines, manages risks and change control, and coordinates facility expansion, process scale-up, commissioning, and production transition.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the integrated program plan, work breakdown structure, schedule, milestone calendar, responsibility matrix, budget alignment, risk register, and reporting cadence
- Coordinate plant, engineering, chemistry, construction, maintenance, operations, quality, ESH, finance, procurement, IT, and contracts activities across interdependent workstreams via effective and proactive collaboration with the associated leads in each area
- Facilitate kickoff, weekly team, monthly leadership, risk, change-control, and milestone-readiness reviews and drive closure of decisions and actions
- Track requirements, approvals, and documentation for capital purchases, construction, commissioning, qualification, pilot production, product sampling, production targets, and final closeout
- Identify schedule, cost, resource, technical, supply-chain, and compliance risks to develop and manage the critical path; assign owners and monitor mitigation plans
- Coordinate draft preparation and internal review of presentations, project plans, schedules, quarterly reports, annual reports, invoices, production and quality summaries, and final technical reports
- Maintain objective evidence supporting deliverables, milestone completion, costs, approvals, and technical acceptance criteria
- Implement disciplined change control for scope, schedule, budget, requirements, assumptions, and technical baselines
- Communicate status, forecast, decisions, and emerging issues clearly to executives, project teams, customers, and partners
- Support workforce planning, subcontractor coordination, customer visits, audits, and project closeout
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, business, project management, or related discipline
- 5+ years of program, project, operations, engineering, or manufacturing leadership experience
- Demonstrated success managing complex cross-functional projects involving capital equipment, construction, facilities management, process development, or production
- Strong schedule, risk, budget, meeting, documentation, and executive-communication skills
- Ability to understand technical work sufficiently to challenge assumptions, identify dependencies, and communicate progress accurately
- Able to communicate clearly and effectively in writing and in person
- Able to organize work, manage changing priorities, and collaborate across technical and business functions
- Demonstrates sound judgment, attention to detail, initiative, and commitment to safe, ethical work
- Proficient with Microsoft Office and able to learn company systems
- Able to protect confidential, proprietary, customer, and controlled project information
- Project Management Professional or comparable certification
- Experience in chemical processing, specialty metals, advanced materials, aerospace, defense, or government-funded manufacturing programs
- Experience with earned-value concepts, integrated master schedules, federal project deliverables, or milestone-based payments
- Experience with commissioning, qualification, production ramp-up, ISO 9001, or supply-chain reporting
Benefits
- 401(k) matching
- Bonus based on performance
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
- Paid holidays
- Quarterly bonuses
- Annual profit sharing
- A planned annual plant shutdown, subject to plan terms and company policy
- Eligible for a fully remote work schedule; periodic (quarterly or more) travel may be required for site visits, in-person meetings, and enhanced coordination
- A candidate capable of hybrid work (up to 1 -2 days/week in the Warren, OH location) would be a strong plus
- Flexible work from home options available
Company Overview