Project Lab Manager

Working across the globe, V2X builds smart solutions designed to integrate physical and digital infrastructure from base to battlefield. We bring 120 years of successful mission support to improve security, streamline logistics, and enhance readiness. Aligned around a shared purpose, our $3.9B company and 16,000 people work alongside our clients, here and abroad, to tackle their most complex challenges with integrity, respect, responsibility, and professionalism.

V2X is seeking a skilled lab manager to join our team. The project lab manager is a hands‑on coordinator that facilitates project operations and test events in a lab environment ensuring project schedule and needs are met all while upholding company core values.

The Project Lab Manager is responsible for day‑to‑day management and configuration control of multi‑program Hardware Engineering labs supporting DoD development and integration efforts. This role owns the physical and logical organization of labs and assets, including; tracking, movement, tagging, and configuration. Typical items controlled by the project lab manager may include GFE, test equipment, avionics boxes, hardware, prototyping equipment, and related infrastructure.

The Project Lab Manager interfaces with hardware engineers, systems engineers, technicians, program management, IT, security, and property administration to ensure that all program labs and assets are properly accounted for, safe to operate, and available to support program schedules. This position is program focused on lab and asset management within the Engineering organization.

• Lab Configuration Control
  • Own lab configuration control for areas and shared test setups within the engineering labs.
  • Define and maintain standard configurations, naming conventions, labeling schemes, and movement practices.
  • Maintain current equipment revisions, connection diagrams, and lab layout documentation.
  • Coordinate with hardware engineering, facilities, and IT on power, network, cooling, and space planning for new or reconfigured equipment.
  • Ensure changes to lab configurations are documented, communicated, and traceable.
• Lab Usage Processes and Enforcement
  • Implement and manage check‑in/check‑out processes for shared lab equipment.
  • Maintain equipment sign‑out logs, reservations, and utilization tracking as needed.
  • Enforce lab rules related to ESD, equipment handling, power/network changes, safety, and configuration control.
  • Provide guidance to lab users on proper handling and use of lab assets.
• Support to Program Execution
  • Prepare and verify lab configurations to support integration events, test campaigns, or customer demonstrations.
  • Coordinate availability of required equipment, power, network connectivity, and bench/rack space to support program schedules.
  • Identify asset or lab configuration shortfalls and communicate risks and mitigation options to program and engineering leads.
• Lab Asset Inventory and Control
  • Maintain a master asset inventory for the engineering labs across multiple DoD programs.
  • Track asset location, custody, calibration, and status (in use, spare, repair, storage, disposal).
  • Coordinate physical movement and relocation of assets between racks, benches, lab spaces, calibration, and storage areas.
  • Ensure accurate, timely updates to asset records when hardware is received, moved, reassigned, or retired.
  • Coordinate inbound and outbound shipments of engineering hardware with receiving, logistics, and property functions.
  • Verify incoming hardware against packing lists or purchase documentation and ensure correct tagging and entry into asset tracking systems.
  • Coordinate shipment of lab hardware to other internal sites, suppliers, or test ranges in accordance with company procedures and DoD‑related…