Senior Engineering Project Manager

We believe power is a promise - a shared commitment to be there for others when it matters most. For more than 65 years, we've turned big ideas into solutions that help protect homes, strengthen businesses and build a more resilient, efficient, sustainable energy future. Ready to Power a Smarter World with us? The Senior Engineering Program Manager leads cross-functional delivery of product development initiatives, including new product introductions, cost reduction, technology integration, and lifecycle product support. This role is accountable for translating product strategy, requirements, and business objectives into clear, executable delivery plans. The Senior Program Manager owns end-to-end delivery of programs of moderate complexity, manages cross-functional dependencies and risks, and ensures program teams remain aligned on scope, timing, trade-offs, and execution priorities. The Senior Program Manager brings structure to ambiguity, connects decisions to business outcomes, and maintains visibility across programs within their product line or line of business. This role is expected to identify resource conflicts, sequencing risks, and dependency overlaps, surface risks early, facilitate difficult trade-off decisions, and keep teams focused on the work required to deliver intended outcomes. This position works closely with product management, engineering, service, manufacturing operations, supply chain, marketing, quality, finance, IT, and other cross-functional partners. Success in this role is measured by predictable execution, clear program ownership, strong stakeholder alignment, proactive risk management, and on-time delivery of business and customer outcomes. Essential Duties & Responsibilities: Own end-to-end delivery of assigned programs of moderate complexity through planning, execution, launch readiness, and closeout. Develop, maintain, and communicate integrated program plans that reflect scope, timing, capacity, dependencies, risks, milestones, and key decision points. Own the end-to-end program schedule, ensuring critical path, dependencies, sequencing constraints, and execution risks are visible and actively managed. Maintain visibility across related programs within the product line or line of business and identify resource conflicts, sequencing risks, and dependency overlaps. Maintain alignment between program plans and business objectives, identifying scope creep and dependency-driven scope risk early. Facilitate trade-off discussions when scope, schedule, cost, capacity, customer needs, or downstream commitments conflict. Translate product requirements and business objectives into clear delivery scope, milestones, and product realization plans in partnership with Product and Engineering. Lead programs through Generac NPI processes, including milestone, design, and gate reviews using accurate, decision-ready information. Drive execution with appropriate urgency by identifying blockers, clarifying ownership, escalating risks, and ensuring teams understand the decisions and actions required to maintain progress. Understand technical decisions at a systems level and surface schedule, cost, compliance, integration, or dependency implications proactively. Facilitate cross-functional alignment with documented outcomes, clear ownership, and proactive management of inter-team dependencies and conflicts. Prepare program status updates that are concise, decision-ready, and appropriate for senior stakeholders. Proactively manage stakeholder expectations as schedule, scope, dependencies, or execution conditions change. Analyze delivery performance and program data to identify patterns, root causes, risks, and opportunities to improve outcomes. Develop and maintain structured change logs and gain stakeholder agreement on material changes to scope or plan. Apply lessons learned, propose improvements to program management and GDP practices, and help drive adoption across the PgM team and supported business areas. Provi…

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