Project/Team Manager/Engineering

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Onsite)

Fulltime

Job description:

This position is for a Project / Team Manager role to join a growing aerospace team with Company.

This role will report to the Delivery Head of Engineering and will manage a portfolio of engineering projects ranging from mechanical design, structures, project engineering, metrology, and repair development. This role will involve building and leading a team of engineers as they work to meet customer goals. Customer management and employee development skills will be key to success.

This is considered a hybrid working position, meaning this role will enable working remotely from home several days per week, as well as working from our Oklahoma City, OK office several days per week.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage several aerospace engineering projects, ensuring metrics such as On Time Delivery (OTD), Customer Satisfaction, and deliverable Quality are met
• Grow and lead a team of 5-30 team members, focusing on employee development, employee satisfaction, and performance management.
• Coordinate with the account management team and delivery head to strategically invest and grow the business
• Build customer relationships and communicate status updates in regular customer meetings
• Manage team member allocation assignments to various aerospace projects, matching resource capability with project requirements
• Lead and/or support proposal generation for customer Requests for Quotation (RFQs)
• Work interdepartmentally to support sales growth initiatives and activities
• Establish standardized work instructions to enable scalability of the site and streamline management processes
• Be empowered to recommend and lead improvements across the organization

Secondary Responsibilities

• Lead and/or participate in interviewing and hiring activities
• Support employee engagement activities and events
• Assist in onboarding of new hires
• Lead and/or support Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations to drive continuous improvement across the site
• Work with the Director to monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for site evaluation and success
• Complete mechanical design and/or project engineering tasks as needed on various engineering projects

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a mechanical or aerospace engineering
• 5 years of experience on mechanical design / structural analysis / project engineering projects
• 5 years of experience leading projects through all phases of the project lifecycle
• 2 years of experience in people leadership, with direct reports

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in the aerospace industry
• Exposure to engineering services and engineering outsourcing business practices
• Exposure to program management
• An ability to build positive intercompany relationships
• Outstanding communication and reporting skills

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: Up to $85,000.00 per year

Application Question(s):

• Are you US Citizen?_______(Yes / No).

Experience:

• Project Manager/ Team Manager: 2 years (Required)
• Project Management / Program Management: 2 years (Required)
• Resource Management: 1 year (Preferred)
• Business development: 1 year (Preferred)
• mechanical design: 5 years (Required)
• structural analysis: 5 years (Required)
• Aerospace Industry: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: On the road