Senior Engineering Project Manager

Description

The role covers forming and running development teams for avionics products, overseeing projects through every life cycle phase, and leading the build of a product or changes to an existing one.

You will need strong leadership, project management skills, and hands-on expertise in new product introduction (NPI) engineering.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver NPI projects within the agreed scope and budget, managing schedule and integration.
• Assemble project teams for systems, software, test equipment and hardware development.
• Build integrated schedules that cover cost and staffing needs.
• Oversee outside suppliers of technology components and subsystems, including writing their Statements of Work.
• Shape the engineering content for gate reviews (Tollgates) and join fact-finding meetings with customers.
• Keep customer CTQs in focus and steer projects to hit tollgate milestones.
• Revise engineering project plans and manage changes to scope, schedule and cost.
• Track project performance, key metrics and variances, and report on them.
• Build and carry out risk management plans.
• Report technical, cost, resource and schedule status to customers and company management.
• Support or lead management meetings and brief senior and executive leaders.
• Flag significant issues or developments quickly, with a focus on safety and reliability.
• Explain business goals, programs and processes clearly, and use your experience to solve problems.
• Lead proposal responses, covering technical direction, write-ups and cost estimates.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering or technical field from an accredited college or university.
• At least 10 years of experience in engineering.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S.
• U.S. citizenship status is required.
• Desired: Experience in avionics design and development.
• Desired: Familiarity with avionics displays, data transfer systems or platform computing products.
• Desired: Prior NPI project or program management experience.
• Desired: Experience taking a multi-disciplinary NPI project through its full life cycle.
• Desired: PMP certification.
• Desired: Technical lead experience in systems, hardware, software or test design.
• Desired: Proven leadership by influence in a multi-domain organization.
• Desired: A record of building effective teams and managing projects.
• Desired: Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Desired: Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.

Conditions

The role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information, so you must prove U.S. Person status as a lawful permanent resident, U.S. citizen, asylee or refugee (a protected individual under 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

The company only hires people legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening.

Any offer is conditional on passing a drug screen, where applicable.

Employees may also face random and reasonable-suspicion drug and alcohol testing.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance is provided.