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Job Summary

Our Program Manager leads and oversees complex projects from inception to completion. This particular role will support aerospace-related projects. Also responsible for program execution, ensuring compliance with technical, budgetary, and schedule requirements while collaborating with cross-functional teams, customers, and stakeholders.

Primary Functions

• Program Leadership: Manage the full lifecycle of aerospace programs, including planning, execution, monitoring, and delivery.
• Project Execution: Ensure project milestones, deliverables, and objectives are met within scope, budget, and timeline.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Serve as the primary point of contact between internal teams, customers, suppliers, and regulatory bodies.
• Risk Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate program risks while ensuring compliance with aerospace industry standards and regulations.
• Manage several projects to achieve winning proposals, program milestones and strategic division goals for profit and growth.
• Budget & Resource Management: Develop and manage program budgets, allocate resources efficiently, and ensure cost-effective execution.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Work closely with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and quality assurance teams to drive program success.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure adherence to FAA, DoD, NASA, or other relevant regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Continuous Improvement: Implement best practices and process improvements to enhance program efficiency and effectiveness.
• Reporting & Communication: Provide regular status reports, presentations, and updates to senior leadership and customers.
• Responsible for all aspects of assigned projects over the entire life (initiate, plan, execute, control, close).
• Responsible for program P&L including but not limited to: Budgets, Actual Costs, Estimates to Complete (ETC), Invoicing, and Receivables.
• Supports senior management with the customer and responsible for customer satisfaction.
• Must deliver and communicate the committed business case and provide senior management within the organization with the necessary information for managing the business via formal Internal Program Reviews (IPR).
• Responsible for Program planning, formulating, and maintaining the program plan, project schedule, and program budget.
• Understand the role and function of each team member, and through expert communication and leadership skills, establish a common understanding among team members on scope, schedule, and financial objectives.
• Manage project schedule and scope to ensure continued alignment with contract requirements and budgets. Work within the established program reporting. structure, providing concise, accurate program status, financial and forecast reports.
• Monitor and assess program performance against plan (schedule and financial). Identify when corrective action is required and initiate necessary program changes, including re-allocation of resources when necessary to meet program schedule and financial objectives.
• Review product design for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, customer contract requirements and related specifications and legal requirements.
• Manage programs and subcontracts via proper flow-down of requirements, working with senior management.
• Document all design/schedule/cost changes and communicate these changes to the customer and receive written customer approval on all changes prior to implementation.
• Control expenditures within the limitations of the project budget and regularly report on project budget to actual performance via the ETC process.
• Coordinate final acceptance documentation and ensure proper procedure is used in accordance with customer and contract specifics.
• Actively participate in growth of the business by supporting customer development team approaches to new business opportunities with new and/or current customers.
• Initiate formalization of PM processes and procedures that promote both organizational efficiency and agility.
• Support related tasks such as strategic planning, revenue forecasting, expense management, and market research.
• Perform additional responsibilities as requested to achieve business objectives.

Competencies

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to interface with all organizational levels
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret customer specification documents, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations.
• Ability to write comprehensible specifications, reports, and business correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and employees.
• Working computer knowledge (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project).
  Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Basic acumen of accounting and budgeting principles necessary to read and interpret project budget statements, financial reports, and meet financial objectives for assigned areas and programs.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Education, Experience & Skills Prerequisite

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Business, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred).
• 5+ years of experience in program or project management within the aerospace industry.
• Strong knowledge of aerospace design, manufacturing, and certification processes.
• Proficiency in project management tools such as MS Project, Primavera, or similar.
• Exceptional leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills for engaging with internal and external stakeholders.

Preferred Skills and Knowledge

• Project Management Professional or equivalent project management certification
• Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM) and cost/schedule control
• Familiarity with AS9100, ITAR, and other aerospace compliance standards
• Experience managing Department of Defense, commercial aviation, or space programs

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