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Factory Design Engineer

Laiba Technologies LLC

Pittsburgh, PA, USADepends on ExperiencePosted November 2, 2026via Dice

Job role - Technical Program Manager – Industrial Engineering (Factory Design)

Location - Pittsburgh, PA / Boston, MA [ONSITE]

Job Description:

  • Factory Design Execution: Oversee factory design projects from concept development through engineering
  • reviews, construction readiness, and final implementation.
  • Project Planning and Tracking: Establish integrated project schedules, milestones, resource requirements, and
  • deliverable commitments, ensuring forecasted completion dates align with operational deadlines.
  • Cross-Functional Scope Alignment: Coordinate with Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering,
  • Facilities, Construction, EHS, and Operations to establish clear project scopes, technical requirements,
  • responsibilities, and execution priorities.
  • Change Request Management: Own the end-to-end change request ticketing process in MaintainX or
  • Quickbase, including request initiation, scope documentation, stakeholder assignments, approval tracking,
  • execution follow-up, and closure.
  • Layout Planning and Governance: Coordinate factory master layout updates, equipment placement reviews,
  • space allocation decisions, and design approvals to maintain alignment with manufacturing requirements.
  • Proactive Factory Design Coordination: Identify and initiate factory design change requests, represent Industrial
  • Engineering priorities, and drive cross-functional decisions to support successful project delivery.
  • Risk and Commitment Management: Identify design conflicts, infrastructure constraints, and execution
  • dependencies; proactively follow up with stakeholders to maintain schedule commitments, resolve delays, and
  • protect operational milestones.
  • Program Visibility and Reporting: Maintain project dashboards, milestone trackers, decision logs, and progress
  • reports to communicate schedule trends, stakeholder commitments, outstanding issues, and execution status.
  • Design Process and Construction Integration: Standardize design review, approval, and documentation
  • workflows while coordinating engineering deliverables with construction schedules, equipment installations,
  • and operational readiness.

Deliverables-

  • Integrated factory design schedules, milestones, and program dashboards.
  • MaintainX/Quickbase change request records, including scope, ownership, approvals, and closure.
  • Stakeholder commitment trackers, action logs, and schedule variance reports.
  • Factory layout review, approval, and revision-control records.
  • Risk registers, decision logs, and weekly program status reports.
  • Construction handoff packages and operational readiness documentation.

Required Skills-

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
  • 5+ years of technical project or program management experience in manufacturing, factory design, industrial
  • engineering, or construction.
  • Understanding of factory layouts, equipment integration, material flow, and infrastructure requirements.
  • Experience with MaintainX, Quickbase, or similar change management and ticketing systems.
  • Proficiency in project scheduling, stakeholder management, risk assessment, and progress reporting.
  • Working knowledge of AutoCAD, Navisworks, ACC, and Bluebeam.
  • Strong technical coordination, problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.
  • PMP certification preferred.
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