Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

Project Leadership and Execution

• Lead day-to-day execution of internal aerospace projects, ensuring scope, schedule, cost, and quality objectives are met.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and shared resources (e.g., engineering, supply chain, quality, operations, finance) to deliver project milestones and internal commitments.
• Develop, maintain, and track project plans, including timelines, dependencies, risks, and action logs; ensure accurate status visibility for stakeholders.
• Drive risk and issue management, including identification, mitigation planning, tracking, and escalation when needed.

Technical and Business Integration​

• Apply working knowledge of relevant aerospace technical domains to support planning, risk assessment, and decision-making.
• Translate technical inputs and requirements into clear project tasks and deliverables, ensuring alignment with safety, quality, and regulatory expectations.
• Understand how project outcomes impact adjacent teams and programs, and coordinate to minimize conflicts and maximize value across the portfolio.

Decision Making and Problem Solving

• Use sound judgment to recommend options and trade-offs, balancing scope, schedule, cost, and risk within established project frameworks.
• Analyze project data and performance metrics to identify trends, anticipate issues, and propose corrective actions.
• Collaborate with functional experts to solve complex problems, leveraging internal networks and resources beyond the immediate project team.

Stakeholder Management and Communication

• Serve as the central coordination point for internal stakeholders, ensuring alignment on priorities, resources, and deliverables.
• Prepare and deliver concise project updates (dashboards, reports, presentations) for stakeholders and functional leaders.
• Facilitate effective meetings and working sessions, driving clear agendas, decisions, and documented follow-up actions.

Team Collaboration and Coaching

• Provide informal leadership to project team members, clarifying roles, expectations, and interfaces between functions.
• Mentor and support junior team members or newer project coordinators, sharing best practices in project management tools and methods.

Continuous Improvement and Standard Work

• Contribute to the improvement of project management processes, tools, and standard work, identifying opportunities to streamline execution and enhance transparency.
• Capture and document lessons learned and feed them back into internal processes, templates, and playbooks to improve future project performance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 7 years of experience in project or program management, operations, or engineering)
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in project or program management, operations, or engineering

Desired Characteristics

• Proven experience managing cross-functional projects end-to-end, including planning, scheduling, risk/issue management, and stakeholder coordination
• Familiarity with standard project management methodologies and tools (e.g., MS Project, Primavera, Jira, or equivalent)
• Working understanding of aerospace products, systems, or manufacturing/operations processes sufficient to participate in technical discussions, understand dependencies, and assess project risks
• Ability to understand key business drivers (cost, schedule, resource utilization, quality) and incorporate them into project planning and decision-making
• Experience with basic financial tracking (budgets, forecasts, actuals) is preferred
• Strong analytical skills and a structured problem-solving approach
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate trade-offs, propose options, and make recommendations within defined frameworks
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to create clear project reports, dashboards, and presentations
• Comfortable facilitating cross-functional meetings and aligning stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to provide informal leadership and influence without direct authority
• Experience coordinating efforts across engineering, supply chain, quality, and operations
• Experience mentoring junior team members is a plus
• Proficiency with standard office and collaboration tools (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)
• Experience with project management and reporting tools
• Experience with ERP/MRP or PLM systems is a plus
• Project Management certification such as PMP is preferred but not required
• Strong ownership mindset, attention to detail, and follow-through
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment
• Continuous improvement mindset focused on Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost

This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

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