Project Leader

We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

Summary: The Project Leader has technical responsibility of Work Package projects with an estimated engineering count of 10-20 FTEs. The responsibilities of the Project Leader are to manage the technical project activities according to agreed deliverables, quality as well as ensuring compliance with customer requirements. Additional responsibilities are to qualify the internal staffing of projects, develop and adhere to project timeline and report the operational situation during internal reviews.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty in accordance with defined standards. Other duties or tasks may be assigned as required. The essential duties and responsibilities are as follows:

• Review technical requirements set by customer
• Support client meetings and on/off-site visits
• Monitor delivery progress with the customer
• Support negotiation with the customer

• Manage project team and tasks on a day-to-day basis
• Report/communicate to external technical stakeholder
• Monitor delivery progress on projects
• Manage technical scope of projects
• Responsible for quality of deliverables
• Report on operational situation and potential risks internally
• Evaluate activities/roles that should be near-/offshore, if any
• Support definition of roles and responsibilities inproject organization
• Support validation of project organization and team members
• Monitor technical skills of team members
• Identify technical/project training needs on projects
• Support efforts to change/improve engagement model with clients
• Support AI implementation

• Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) from a technical college or university in Engineering
• Minimum 5 years of total experience, including a minimum of 1 year in a Project Leadership role
• General understanding of aerospace product development life cycles, including design, engineering, testing, verification, and production.
• Familiarity with cross-functional engineering environments involving mechanical, electrical, and systems engineering disciplines.
• Ability to understand and communicate technical concepts effectively with engineering teams, customers, and other stakeholders.

• Understanding requirements management, configuration control, engineering change management, and technical documentation.
• Familiarity with aerospace industry standards, quality requirements, and regulatory frameworks, such as AS9100, FAA, and EASA.
• Previous experience within aircraft systems, cabin systems, or aerospace equipment development.

• Ability to read, write, speak, analyze and interpret all forms of communication and business correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the…