Project Engineer

Your Job

As a Project Engineer based in Costa Mesa, California, you will independently lead moderately complex new product introduction (NPI) and sustaining projects from initiation through production release.

You will connect customer requirements, cross-functional expertise, manufacturing readiness, and business priorities to deliver project scope through disciplined planning, risk management, and execution.

Our Team

You will work with engineering, manufacturing, quality, validation, regulatory, supply chain, operations, and commercial partners.

This role will coordinate project deliverables while ensuring functional subject-matter experts maintain responsibility for technical content and approvals.

What You Will Do



* Lead assigned NPI and sustaining projects or support Program Management based on project scope and business needs


* Own integrated project plans, including schedules, milestones, dependencies, actions, risks, stage-gate readiness, and project-status reporting


* Coordinate cross-functional contributors and facilitate readiness reviews while maintaining clear ownership of technical decisions and approvals


* Communicate project status, commitments, risks, decisions, barriers, and recovery plans to internal teams, customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders


* Connect customer requirements with manufacturing readiness and quality, validation, regulatory, supply, operational, and commercial considerations


* Maintain traceable, audit-ready project records, objective evidence, required deliverables, open items, and approved exceptions


* Promote safety, ergonomics, standard work, continuous improvement, lessons learned, and practices that improve project predictability

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* Bachelor's degree in engineering


* 5+ years of project engineering, program execution, or comparable engineering project leadership experience


* Experience leading new product introduction or sustaining projects from initiation through production release


* Experience managing project schedules, milestones, dependencies, actions, risks, and stage-gate deliverables

What Will Put You Ahead



* Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering


* Experience in medical-device or medical contract manufacturing


* Experience with three-dimensional modeling software, including SolidWorks


* Experience coordinating customer, supplier, and multi-site project activities


* Experience supporting non-recurring engineering, budget, scope, or commercial discussions

This role is not eligible for VISA Sponsorship.

For this role, we anticipate paying $105,000- $120,000 per year.

This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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