Engineering Project Manager Jobs in Minnesota
Engineering Project Manager jobs in Minnesota are concentrated in the Twin Cities metro, Rochester, and Duluth, where employers like 3M, Mayo Clinic, and Honeywell maintain large engineering operations that generate consistent demand at every level from associate PM to senior program lead. The most active specialties include manufacturing process engineering, medical device development, and infrastructure and construction management, reflecting Minnesota's deep industrial and healthcare sectors. Openings appear year-round, making it one of the more active Midwest markets for this role. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Job Title: Engineering Project Manager
Job Description:
The Engineering Project Manager is an advanced individual contributor in Research, Development, & Engineering (RDE). The role independently manages complex, multidisciplinary engineering projects within delegated authority, integrates technical and business execution, and works toward project scope, schedule, cost, and performance objectives. Assignments may include power conversion, power distribution, and related product development projects. The same skills, knowledge, experience, and qualifications apply across assignments.
The role reports to the Manager, RDE Project Engineering, and has no direct reports. The Engineering Project Manager leads through project and cross-functional coordination. The designated program leader retains accountability for overall program results, program review gates, and alignment among senior stakeholders. Engineering technical leads retain technical design approval. The position does not own portfolio prioritization, people management, or department-wide governance.
In this role you will:
- Independently lead assigned complex, multidisciplinary engineering projects within delegated authority and Trystar’s established project-management standards. Own project scope, integrated resource-backed schedules, milestones, spending, and coordination of technical and business workstreams. Plan day-to-day execution, maintain clear deliverable ownership, and hold matrix team members accountable while respecting the technical authority of engineering leads and subject-matter experts.
- Integrate mechanical, electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, sourcing, quality, compliance, and commercial activities as applicable. Align requirements and interfaces across workstreams and maintain traceability through design reviews, verification, validation, and engineering change control, including ECR, ECO, and management of change (MOC). Coordinate commercialization and launch readiness, handoff to business functions for normal operations, and lessons learned. Technical leads retain design approval authority.
- Develop and maintain integrated, resource-backed schedules, milestones, financial forecasts, and spending reports. Align scope and requirements with available resources, identify dependencies and critical paths, and make the effects of changes visible. Manage multiple projects or major workstreams, prioritize according to risk, customer commitments, and resource availability, and identify schedule conflicts early. Work with functional leaders to resolve execution barriers and evaluate options using technical, cost, schedule, quality, resource, and customer considerations.
- Use structured problem solving to identify root causes, assess alternatives, recommend corrective actions, and resolve project-level issues. Maintain risk, issue, and decision records, assign owners, and follow through on mitigation and resolution. Make decisions within approved scope, budget, schedule, and risk authority, and escalate significant business risks, major scope changes, and enterprise-level tradeoffs. Coordinate technology assessments with technical leads to evaluate feasibility, maturity, alternatives, and implementation risk, and translate findings into project assumptions, recommendations, and decision points.
- Prepare and report progress, scope, schedule, cost, performance, risks, issues, decisions, and recommendations to functional leaders and senior stakeholders at established cadences, at least monthly. Maintain consistent status, risk, issue, decision, and milestone records. Lead project-level stakeholder communication, keep information timely, accurate, appropriately vetted, and internally aligned, and escalate strategically sensitive, enterprise-level, or high-risk communications as appropriate.
- Apply and reinforce established governance, requirements management, integrated scheduling, risk and issue registers, decision logs, design reviews, health checks, reporting cadences, escalation paths, and lessons learned. Identify process gaps and contribute practical feedback and improvement recommendations for Project Engineering tools, processes, standards, and practices without owning department-wide governance or standards.
- Provide accurate project data for portfolio reviews, identify cross-project dependencies and resource constraints, and participate in scenario analysis. Recommend project-level options and escalate cross-project resource conflicts to Staff or Principal Project Engineers and functional leaders. Support those engineers on the highest-risk, strategically significant, or multi-program initiatives with clearly defined ownership of assigned workstreams, deliverables, decisions, and milestones. Portfolio prioritization and organization-wide resource allocation remain outside this role’s authority.
- Provide informal, project-focused coaching on tools and processes, risk and resource planning, scope and schedule management, issue resolution, stakeholder communication, and lessons learned. Support onboarding and training of new project team members as assigned, and foster teamwork aligned with Trystar’s values. This role does not own formal staff competency development or people management.
Qualifications:
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s or higher degree in engineering or a similar technical field, or a bachelor’s or higher degree in a business-related field. Current CAPM, CPPM, or equivalent project-management certification is required at the time of hire. HRBP and Talent Acquisition must confirm equivalency during screening; active progress toward a PMP is preferred and does not replace the current certification requirement.
- 7+ years leading projects in engineering, R&D, technology, product development, or a combination of these environments. Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex, multidisciplinary engineering projects and oversee integrated product-development execution. Business acumen, cross-functional business experience, experience with project scheduling and reporting tools, and a proven record of influencing without authority are required.
Preferred qualifications
- A master’s degree in engineering or business, or equivalent experience, and active progress toward a PMP are preferred. A record of driving technology or products through commercialization, effective communication with stakeholders at all corporate levels, and the ability to informally coach project personnel are also preferred.
- Experience in Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid project environments; management of external vendors, suppliers, or development partners; and familiarity with Trystar technologies and processes are preferred.
Skills:
- Required skills include effective communication, organization, interpersonal relationships, and structured problem solving. Apply critical thinking, disciplined time management, and influence without authority to align stakeholders and translate technical and business information into clear project decisions. Experience with the Microsoft 365 suite, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Teams, and SharePoint, is required.
- Preferred tool experience includes Microsoft Planner and Project; AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT; and Mindomo or similar mindmapping tools.
Success measures
Success is measured by credible integrated, resource-backed plans and spending forecasts; timely resolution or escalation of risks and issues; clear decisions, project artifacts, and stakeholder communications; and effective integration of design reviews, verification, validation, change control, and commercialization. Consistent use of established RDE practices, disciplined management of multiple priorities, and delivery of assigned workstreams are expected.
Work environment
- The default location is Burnsville, MN, with a hybrid working model requiring at least one full office day per week. Hybrid work from another established Trystar site is allowed. Fully remote work is considered only for exceptional candidates. Management may adjust the working model as business needs change.
- The role may require up to 20% domestic or international travel.
Job Title: Engineering Project Manager
Job Description:
The Engineering Project Manager is an advanced individual contributor in Research, Development, & Engineering (RDE). The role independently manages complex, multidisciplinary engineering projects within delegated authority, integrates technical and business execution, and works toward project scope, schedule, cost, and performance objectives. Assignments may include power conversion, power distribution, and related product development projects. The same skills, knowledge, experience, and qualifications apply across assignments.
The role reports to the Manager, RDE Project Engineering, and has no direct reports. The Engineering Project Manager leads through project and cross-functional coordination. The designated program leader retains accountability for overall program results, program review gates, and alignment among senior stakeholders. Engineering technical leads retain technical design approval. The position does not own portfolio prioritization, people management, or department-wide governance.
In this role you will:
- Independently lead assigned complex, multidisciplinary engineering projects within delegated authority and Trystar’s established project-management standards. Own project scope, integrated resource-backed schedules, milestones, spending, and coordination of technical and business workstreams. Plan day-to-day execution, maintain clear deliverable ownership, and hold matrix team members accountable while respecting the technical authority of engineering leads and subject-matter experts.
- Integrate mechanical, electrical, controls, software, manufacturing, sourcing, quality, compliance, and commercial activities as applicable. Align requirements and interfaces across workstreams and maintain traceability through design reviews, verification, validation, and engineering change control, including ECR, ECO, and management of change (MOC). Coordinate commercialization and launch readiness, handoff to business functions for normal operations, and lessons learned. Technical leads retain design approval authority.
- Develop and maintain integrated, resource-backed schedules, milestones, financial forecasts, and spending reports. Align scope and requirements with available resources, identify dependencies and critical paths, and make the effects of changes visible. Manage multiple projects or major workstreams, prioritize according to risk, customer commitments, and resource availability, and identify schedule conflicts early. Work with functional leaders to resolve execution barriers and evaluate options using technical, cost, schedule, quality, resource, and customer considerations.
- Use structured problem solving to identify root causes, assess alternatives, recommend corrective actions, and resolve project-level issues. Maintain risk, issue, and decision records, assign owners, and follow through on mitigation and resolution. Make decisions within approved scope, budget, schedule, and risk authority, and escalate significant business risks, major scope changes, and enterprise-level tradeoffs. Coordinate technology assessments with technical leads to evaluate feasibility, maturity, alternatives, and implementation risk, and translate findings into project assumptions, recommendations, and decision points.
- Prepare and report progress, scope, schedule, cost, performance, risks, issues, decisions, and recommendations to functional leaders and senior stakeholders at established cadences, at least monthly. Maintain consistent status, risk, issue, decision, and milestone records. Lead project-level stakeholder communication, keep information timely, accurate, appropriately vetted, and internally aligned, and escalate strategically sensitive, enterprise-level, or high-risk communications as appropriate.
- Apply and reinforce established governance, requirements management, integrated scheduling, risk and issue registers, decision logs, design reviews, health checks, reporting cadences, escalation paths, and lessons learned. Identify process gaps and contribute practical feedback and improvement recommendations for Project Engineering tools, processes, standards, and practices without owning department-wide governance or standards.
- Provide accurate project data for portfolio reviews, identify cross-project dependencies and resource constraints, and participate in scenario analysis. Recommend project-level options and escalate cross-project resource conflicts to Staff or Principal Project Engineers and functional leaders. Support those engineers on the highest-risk, strategically significant, or multi-program initiatives with clearly defined ownership of assigned workstreams, deliverables, decisions, and milestones. Portfolio prioritization and organization-wide resource allocation remain outside this role’s authority.
- Provide informal, project-focused coaching on tools and processes, risk and resource planning, scope and schedule management, issue resolution, stakeholder communication, and lessons learned. Support onboarding and training of new project team members as assigned, and foster teamwork aligned with Trystar’s values. This role does not own formal staff competency development or people management.
Qualifications:
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s or higher degree in engineering or a similar technical field, or a bachelor’s or higher degree in a business-related field. Current CAPM, CPPM, or equivalent project-management certification is required at the time of hire. HRBP and Talent Acquisition must confirm equivalency during screening; active progress toward a PMP is preferred and does not replace the current certification requirement.
- 7+ years leading projects in engineering, R&D, technology, product development, or a combination of these environments. Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex, multidisciplinary engineering projects and oversee integrated product-development execution. Business acumen, cross-functional business experience, experience with project scheduling and reporting tools, and a proven record of influencing without authority are required.
Preferred qualifications
- A master’s degree in engineering or business, or equivalent experience, and active progress toward a PMP are preferred. A record of driving technology or products through commercialization, effective communication with stakeholders at all corporate levels, and the ability to informally coach project personnel are also preferred.
- Experience in Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid project environments; management of external vendors, suppliers, or development partners; and familiarity with Trystar technologies and processes are preferred.
Skills:
- Required skills include effective communication, organization, interpersonal relationships, and structured problem solving. Apply critical thinking, disciplined time management, and influence without authority to align stakeholders and translate technical and business information into clear project decisions. Experience with the Microsoft 365 suite, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Teams, and SharePoint, is required.
- Preferred tool experience includes Microsoft Planner and Project; AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Claude, or ChatGPT; and Mindomo or similar mindmapping tools.
Success measures
Success is measured by credible integrated, resource-backed plans and spending forecasts; timely resolution or escalation of risks and issues; clear decisions, project artifacts, and stakeholder communications; and effective integration of design reviews, verification, validation, change control, and commercialization. Consistent use of established RDE practices, disciplined management of multiple priorities, and delivery of assigned workstreams are expected.
Work environment
- The default location is Burnsville, MN, with a hybrid working model requiring at least one full office day per week. Hybrid work from another established Trystar site is allowed. Fully remote work is considered only for exceptional candidates. Management may adjust the working model as business needs change.
- The role may require up to 20% domestic or international travel.
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- Bachelor's degree in engineering or a closely related technical discipline required
- PMP certification or active pursuit of PMP credentials strongly preferred
- Five or more years of project management experience in an engineering environment
- Proficiency with project management software such as MS Project, Primavera, or similar tools
- Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional teams and third-party vendor relationships
- Experience with regulated industries such as medical devices or aerospace manufacturing
Engineering Project Manager Jobs in Minnesota: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a engineering project manager in Minnesota?
The typical path into an engineering project manager role in Minnesota starts with a bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline, followed by several years of hands-on engineering or technical project work. Minnesota does not require a state-issued license specific to this management title, but many employers expect the Project Management Professional credential from PMI. Candidates with a Professional Engineer registration from the Minnesota Board of AELSLAGID gain a strong advantage in civil, structural, or infrastructure hiring contexts.
How much do engineering project managers make in Minnesota?
Engineering project managers in Minnesota earn a median of about $172,130 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $128,430 for the lowest 10% to over $223,540 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire engineering project managers in Minnesota?
Minnesota engineering project manager roles are posted by MSA Professional Services, nVent, and Stantec and others right now, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Minnesota's concentration of Fortune 500 headquarters and medical device manufacturers means a particularly broad range of industries competes for this role.
Which Minnesota cities have the most engineering project manager jobs?
Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and Anoka account for the largest share of engineering project manager openings in Minnesota. The Twin Cities anchor the market through their density of corporate headquarters, manufacturing campuses, and infrastructure projects, while Rochester's concentration of healthcare and medical technology employers, anchored by Mayo Clinic, drives consistent demand outside the metro.
Are there remote engineering project manager jobs in Minnesota?
Yes, but they are less common than in purely desk-based fields because engineering project managers frequently need to be on-site to oversee contractors, inspect progress, and coordinate with plant or lab teams. About 79% of engineering project manager openings tied to Minnesota are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with remote arrangements most common for software, IT infrastructure, and early-phase planning roles.
How can I get hired as a engineering project manager in Minnesota with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is a lateral move from a technical engineering role into a junior project coordinator or associate project manager position. Large Minnesota employers like 3M, Medtronic, and Donaldson Company regularly bring engineers with two or three years of technical experience into rotational or project coordination roles that build PM credentials on the job. Earning a Certified Associate in Project Management credential before applying gives candidates without a formal PM title a concrete differentiator in these competitive pools.
Where can I find and apply to engineering project manager jobs in Minnesota?
You can find and apply to engineering project manager jobs in Minnesota on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings across the state. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience level and preferred location, then apply directly to the ones that fit.
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