Position Title: Technical Project Manage
Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Technical Project Manage opportunity.
Job Responsibilities:
- Team Leadership: Directly manage an onsite scout team (consisting of 1 Electrical Engineer and 3 CAD Designers) to ensure continuous output, scaling the CAD team headcount as the project scope dictates.
- Schedule Execution: Own and drive the weekly production metrics, maintaining a sustained team output of roughly 56 completed and quality-checked drawings per week (11-12 daily).
- ross-Functional Extraction: Coordinate closely with the shop floor build team and manufacturing supervisors to safely extract undocumented tribal knowledge regarding legacy and active production parts.
- Workflow & Quality Control: Standardize the tracking matrix, drafting templates, and cross-checking procedures to ensure all final drawings match physical part geometry and mating tolerances perfectly.
- Executive Reporting: Interface directly with the onsite Lead Engineer and provide daily internal progress syncs, while delivering formal weekly milestone reports to offsite executive and corporate leadership.
Job Qualifications:
- 5+ years of Project Management experience within a manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, or heavy industrial engineering environment.
- Proven track record managing high-velocity document control, reverse-engineering, or CAD drafting deployment initiatives under tight regulatory or corporate deadlines.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to collaborate seamlessly between hands-on shop floor assembly teams and high-level corporate executives.
- Strong proficiency with engineering tracking matrices (Excel/Smartsheet) and exposure to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) or CAD file architecture systems.
- Local to the Portland metro area and available for immediate, full-time onsite deployment.
Preferred Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, manufacturing, industrial technology, operations, project management, or a related field; equivalent experience will be considered.
- PMP, CAPM, or comparable project-management certification.
- Experience with electromechanical products, electrical schematics, component drawings, assemblies, or manufacturing work instructions.
- Familiarity with ASME Y14 drawing practices, GD&T, engineering-change processes, and configuration-management principles.
- Experience with SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Creo, Inventor, or similar CAD environments.
- Experience with PDM or PLM platforms and controlled document-release workflows.
- Exposure to dimensional inspection, metrology, physical-part verification, or reverse engineering workflows.
- Experience managing contract engineering or technical staffing teams.
- Experience with plant transitions, production transfers, legacy-product recovery, or other time-sensitive manufacturing initiatives.
- Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous-improvement training.
Job Details:
- Job Type: Contract
- Pay Rate: TBD
- Location: Salem, OR (Onsite).
- ITAR obligations are associated with this role, U.S. citizenship, U.S. legal permanent resident status, or protected person status under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a) (1), (3) is required.
About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.