Project Engineer, Digital

Aerospace is at a turning point — costs are rising, supply chains are strained, and old ways of building can't keep up. At Neon Aero, we're breaking that mold. We move fast, think big, and combine start-up agility with aerospace expertise to design, build, and scale aircraft in ways the industry has never seen. Our team leverages automation, AI-driven tools, and a fully connected digital backbone to accelerate innovation and reduce barriers to production.

Here, you won't just take a job — you'll help reinvent how the world flies. If you're ready to solve complex problems, push technology further, and work alongside some of the brightest minds in aerospace, this is your chance to make a real impact.

The Digital Principal Project Engineer is responsible for driving execution across Neon's enterprise digital programs, including the deployment and integration of the PLM, ERP, MES, QMS, supply chain, data, and AI platforms that make up Neon's digital backbone. This role serves as the connective point across Digital teams, engineering and business stakeholders, implementation partners, and software vendors to coordinate deliverables, manage dependencies, track decisions, resolve blockers, and elevate technical risks.

Operating in a manner similar to a technical program manager for enterprise systems, this individual keeps Digital programs aligned as capabilities move from requirements and design through configuration, integration, validation, cutover, and adoption. The role preserves accountability, schedule integrity, and the compliance rigor required of a regulated aerospace supplier handling export-controlled data.

• Drive end-to-end execution of Neon's enterprise digital programs, including PLM, ERP, MES, QMS, supply chain, data platform, and AI tooling deployments, from requirements through go-live and adoption.
• Build, maintain, and communicate integrated program plans, roadmaps, milestones, and critical paths across concurrent Digital work streams and their dependencies on engineering, operations, supply chain, and finance.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities among Digital, IT, information security, export control, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, finance, and operations stakeholders.
• Manage implementation partners and software vendors against statements of work, deliverables, and milestones; track partner performance and elevate gaps.
• Track system integration dependencies, interface points, data flows, open actions, and decision logs across Neon's enterprise application landscape.
• Plan and coordinate environment promotion, data migration, cutover, and hypercare for system deployments, including the retirement of legacy systems and tools.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing, validation, and release readiness with business owners, ensuring deployments meet Neon's quality system and documentation requirements.
• Engage information security and export control early in planning so that deployments respect Neon's ITAR and controlled unclassified information (CUI) boundaries.
• Identify technical, schedule, integration, and adoption risks early; drive mitigation planning, escalation, and follow-through to closure.
• Lead recurring program reviews, steering meetings, partner syncs, and go-live readiness reviews with clear agendas, action ownership, and status reporting.
• Partner with Digital technical leads and platform owners to translate Digital strategy into executable work streams, timelines, and measurable checkpoints.
• Coordinate training, communication, and change management so that engineering and business users adopt new systems and processes.
• Track program budgets, partner spend, and license commitments against plan.
• Prepare concise, accurate program status updates…