Program Manager, Powertrains

Ilmor is a world-class engineering and manufacturing company focused on high-performance solutions in the racing and marine industries. We combine performance, precision, innovation, and impact to solve complex technical challenges and deliver products that perform at the highest levels. Our team is driven by excellence, accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

This role serves as the primary technical and customer interface for assigned high-performance engine development programs. This role translates customer objectives into clearly defined technical requirements, scopes engineering work, coordinates execution across Ilmor teams, and supports successful delivery from concept through validation and implementation.

The successful candidate will combine engine development knowledge, disciplined program management, and strong customer communication to deliver solutions that meet performance, reliability, quality, timing, and cost objectives.

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for assigned customers and engine development programs.
• Lead discovery discussions to understand customer goals, intended application, performance targets, constraints, timing, and success criteria.
• Translate customer needs into clear technical requirements, assumptions, scope boundaries, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop program proposals and statements of work in partnership with Engineering, Finance, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Testing, and leadership.
• Prepare preliminary schedules, resource requirements, development plans, cost estimates, and technical risk assessments.
• Lead customer technical reviews, program updates, and change discussions with clear documentation of decisions and action items.
• Manage customer expectations by communicating scope, timing, dependencies, risks, tradeoffs, and proposed solutions promptly and professionally.

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for assigned customers and engine development programs.
• Lead discovery discussions to understand customer goals, intended application, performance targets, constraints, timing, and success criteria.
• Translate customer needs into clear technical requirements, assumptions, scope boundaries, deliverables, and acceptance criteria.
• Develop program proposals and statements of work in partnership with Engineering, Finance, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Testing, and leadership.
• Prepare preliminary schedules, resource requirements, development plans, cost estimates, and technical risk assessments.
• Lead customer technical reviews, program updates, and change discussions with clear documentation of decisions and action items.
• Manage customer expectations by communicating scope, timing, dependencies, risks, tradeoffs, and proposed solutions promptly and professionally.

• Coordinate engine development activities from concept and requirements definition through design, prototype build, testing, validation, and implementation.
• Partner with design, simulation, calibration, testing, quality, manufacturing, purchasing, and engine assembly resources to execute program deliverables.
• Design components or other requirements in CAD (Solidworks) to support team design efforts
• Support definition of performance, durability, reliability, serviceability, emissions or regulatory, and quality requirements applicable to each program.
• Participate in design reviews, build reviews, test planning, root cause analysis, and technical problem-solving activities.
• Review dynamometer, simulation, inspection, and validation data; summarize results and recommend next steps in collaboration with subject-matter experts. Coordinate prototype hardware, component availability, supplier support, test assets, and engineering releases needed to maintain program timing.
• Ensure engineering changes, test results, decisions, customer approvals, and lessons learned are documented and traceable.

• Develop program budgets and track financial performance throughout the project delivery.
• Create and maintain integrated program schedules, risk registers, and milestone plans.
• Monitor scope, timing, cost, quality, and technical performance; identify variances early and lead recovery planning.
• Apply disciplined change control when customer requirements, technical direction, cost, or timing change.
• Coordinate recurring internal and customer program reviews and ensure owners complete…