Technical Project Manager, Transit Systems Safety is where everything begins. It shapes our culture, our products, and the way we show up for our communities. Join us as we build smarter technologies that redefine fleet safety. When you help make fleets smarter, you make people safer. The Technical Project Manager is accountable for the technical delivery workstream supporting complex transit vehicle technology implementations. The role leads mechanical engineering coordination, vehicle configuration development, mounting and installation design, prototype and conditional-installation support, technical documentation, and controlled transfer of approved technical information to field teams. This position combines technical judgment with disciplined workstream management. The Technical Project Manager partners closely with the Project Manager and Field Coordinator, but remains the primary owner for technical readiness, engineering deliverables, configuration accuracy, and technical issue resolution.
Duties and responsibilities include:
Develop and maintain the technical workstream plan, milestones, dependencies, resource assignments, priorities, and delivery forecasts in alignment with the integrated project schedule.
Lead and coordinate mechanical engineering and technical writing activities, collaborating with engineering teams and technical writers to ensure accurate, high-quality outcomes.
Coordinate product, supply-chain, production, quality, and field-support resources across vehicle types and project phases.
Maintain technical action, risk, issue, decision, dependency, and change records; assign owners and due dates and drive items to verified technical closure.
Provide accurate technical status, schedule impacts, risks, assumptions, and decisions to the Project Manager and customer-facing team.
Provide technical dependencies, configuration requirements, material lead-time assumptions, and engineering estimates for schedule recovery, kit-demand planning, and production forecasting.
Escalate resource, design, approval, configuration, and documentation constraints before they affect prototypes, production, or field installation.
New York Pay Transparency:
$125,000 - $145,000 USD AnnualAt Safe Fleet, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Our core values of integrity, innovation, teamwork, customer focus, and safety guide our efforts to provide a workplace where all employees can thrive and reach their full potential.
Requirements include:
Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, systems, manufacturing, or engineering technology; equivalent relevant technical experience may be considered.
Five or more years of experience leading technical delivery in vehicle systems, transportation, systems integration, manufacturing, engineering, or field implementation.
Working knowledge of electromechanical vehicle installations, technical drawings, BOMs, configuration management, installation documentation, and engineering change control.
Experience coordinating engineers, technical writers, suppliers, production personnel, installers, field-service teams, and customer technical stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to plan technical work, manage dependencies and risks, document decisions, communicate schedule impacts, and drive technical actions to closure.
Strong technical writing, review, troubleshooting, facilitation, and customer communication skills.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office and collaboration/document-control tools; ability to learn or use Jira, Confluence, SharePoint/OneDrive, Salesforce, and Arena.
Valid driver's license, ability to satisfy applicable site-access requirements, and ability to travel and work flexible shifts at customer and field locations.
Preferred qualifications include:
Experience with public transportation agencies, vehicle retrofits, onboard video, communications systems, or multi-vehicle equipment rollouts.
Project-management certification or demonstrated formal project-management training.
Experience with requirements traceability, prototype validation, customer acceptance, quality gates, and production-readiness reviews.
Professional Engineer license or advanced engineering credential.
