FARO CREAFORM is seeking a
Senior Project Manager to lead
strategic New Product Development (NPD) programs from idea to market launch within a multidisciplinary engineering environment (hardware, firmware, and software). This role owns
end-to-end program execution for complex, multi-year initiatives (typically 18-48 months, involving 10-40 engineers) primarily across Exton, PA and Lake Mary, FL, while collaborating remotely with additional global sites.This senior individual contributor role requires strong program leadership, schedule mastery, and high-impact executive communication, while also serving as a key partner to the PMO Director to enhance governance and best practices. The salary range for the position is $120k- $150k.
How you will make a difference @ FARO:- Lead cross functional NPD programs from concept, business case, and requirements through development, alpha and beta phases, production readiness, launch readiness, and post launch stabilization.
- Drive integrated planning across Engineering (HW/FW/SW), Product Management, Operations, Supply Chain, Service, and Marketing.
- Establish clear program goals, scope boundaries, and decision logs; ensure alignment from working teams through executive steering forums.
- Build and maintain an end to end master schedule with critical path visibility, dependencies, resource constraints, and appropriate risk buffers for 18-48 month programs.
- Own schedule governance: progress measurement, KPI maintenance, variance analysis, recovery planning, and proactive escalation.
- Implement disciplined change control (scope, timeline, cost) and ensure decision makers understand trade offs and impacts.
- Ensure rigorous stage gate execution for hardware programs, including deliverable completeness, entry/exit criteria, and objective evidence.
- Drive "no surprises" gate reviews through early risk identification, issue resolution, and cross functional alignment.
- Lead structured risk management: maintain risk registers, mitigation plans, owners, triggers, and routine reviews.
- Manage cross team dependencies and integration milestones; ensure timely removal of impediments.
- Support fact based decision making and escalate issues with clear options and recommendations.
- Prepare and deliver crisp, executive ready program communications for VP/GM level stakeholders, including status, risks, decisions needed, and forecasted outcomes.
- Facilitate steering committee meetings and leadership reviews; ensure actions, ownership, and follow through.
- Serve as a senior peer/mentor within the PM community-modeling high standards in planning discipline, cadence, and gate rigor.
- Contribute to PMO governance improvements (templates, playbooks, training, leading indicators) with a pragmatic, adoption focused approach.
- Partner with the PMO Director to elevate consistency across programs without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.
This position requires: - Extensive experience leading complex NPD programs in integrated hardware, firmware, and software environments (multi year, multi team).
- Demonstrated mastery of schedule management including critical path, dependencies, resource constraints, forecasting, and recovery planning.
- Experience operating within stage gate development frameworks and ability to integrate agility into broader program milestones.
- Strong cross functional leadership: influence without authority, conflict resolution, and accountability driving.
- Executive level communication skills, with the ability to translate complexity into decisions, options, and recommendations for senior leadership (VP/GM).
- Proficiency with Jira and Confluence; familiarity with enterprise PM tools such as MS Project, Smartsheet, Planview, or equivalents.
Preferred Qualifications: - PMP or equivalent project/program management certification.
- Experience with measurement systems, industrial products, electromechanical systems, or complex product ecosystems.
- Background in multi site development environments (engineering split across locations/time zones).
- Demonstrated contribution to PMO maturity through governance design, templates, standard cadences, and mentoring/training.
What FARO Creaform can offer you: We have excellent benefits for you and your family. We not only care for our employees but also to their immediate family members. We believe in a balanced work-life and have developed programs and benefits plans to support that ethic, such as:
- A competitive paid time off bank and paid holidays
- Medical, dental, life and AD&D insurance plans
- Pre-tax flex spending accounts for medical and dependent care
- 401K with employer match
- Tuition reimbursement and training opportunities
- Other employee events
We are a drug-free workplace with pre-employment drug screening.
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CompensationEmployee Type: Salaried
Salary Minimum: $120,000
Salary Maximum: $150,000
Incentive: No
Disclaimer: Where a specific pay range is noted, it is a good faith estimate at the time of this posting. The actual salary offered will be based on experience, skills, qualifications, market / business considerations, and geographic location.
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