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Salary: USD 90,000 - 175,000 / annual
Mach Industries, founded in 2023, is a rapidly growing defense technology company developing next-generation autonomous defense platforms. The company operates with startup agility and ambition, with approximately 350 employees focused on delivering scalable, decentralized defense systems for the United States and its allies.
In this Process Engineer role, you will own schedule management and project coordination across multiple concurrent aerospace and defense programs. Your primary responsibility is building, maintaining, and communicating accurate Gantt charts in SmartSheet (or equivalent tools) to ensure critical lead times and delivery schedules are clearly understood by hardware, propellant, and test engineers. You will work across several projects simultaneously—typically rocket motor development, component test campaigns, prototype hardware, and related R&D efforts—keeping leadership and technical leads aligned on status, critical path, requirements flow, and risks.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop and maintain detailed Gantt charts and schedules in SmartSheet or equivalent for multiple small-to-medium complexity aerospace programs running in parallel
- Translate statements of work, technical plans, and team inputs into work breakdown structures, task logic, durations, resource loading, and milestones
- Update information regularly based on actual progress, change requests, and hardware availability; identify critical path and schedule risks
- Produce clear schedule reports, look-ahead views, and variance analysis for project leads, engineering managers, and program reviews
- Coordinate with engineers, technicians, procurement, and test operations to keep task dependencies, lead times, and constraints current
- Support baseline establishment, schedule health checks, and what-if analysis when scope or resources change
- Maintain schedule version control and documentation consistent with company and customer requirements
- Participate in project kickoffs, status meetings, and after-action reviews; flag schedule impacts early
- Available to work extended hours and weekends as needed
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, project management, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 3–7 years of project scheduling experience managing concurrent projects of small-to-medium complexity without losing fidelity on any one of them
- Demonstrated proficiency building and maintaining Gantt charts and logic-driven schedules; SmartSheet and Microsoft Project strongly preferred; Primavera P6 experience a plus
- Strong understanding of work breakdown structures, critical path method, float, resource leveling, and baseline management
- Clear written and verbal communication skills; able to explain schedule status and impacts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- U.S. citizenship required; ability to obtain and maintain DoD Secret Clearance
- Valid driver's license
- ITAR eligibility: must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, Refugee, or Asylee, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting rocket propulsion, energetics, or aerospace hardware programs (design–fabrication–test)
- Familiarity with AS9100 or similar quality systems and government contracting environments
- PMP, CAPM, or scheduling-specific certification
- Experience with Excel-based schedule analysis and simple dashboards; PowerBI experience a plus
- Hands-on comfort working with engineering and shop-floor teams in R&D, test, and manufacturing settings
