Program Manager

Shift: Day

Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00am-5:00pm (additional hours as needed)

Rate: Salary Based Upon Experience

General Position Summary:

The Program Manager is the responsible party in charge of all day-to-day, as well as ongoing tasks, goals, and production for a specified customer or project. The Program Manager will be responsible for leading an Integrated Program Team (IPT), to ensure that all program requirements are understood and achieved, on each customer and/or project assigned. Must be an effective leader and problem-solver.

Essential Functions/Major Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain plans, budgets, and timelines for completion of projects.
• Selects and organizes the integrated project team.
• Works with sales and customers to establish, manage and control project scopes and deliverables.
• Creates, maintains, and communicates Project timelines and schedules.
• Create, maintain and communicate project budgets, spending and financial status indicators
• Direct multi-disciplinary teams to and from product concept, through development and onto complete production level commercialization.
• Manages multiple projects concurrently
• Ensures accurate documents/specifications are generated for new product designs and manufacturing processes and documents are transferred to vendors and relevant internal groups.
• Ensures the output of product development is manufacturable and transferable into production.
• Develops project status reports and presentations for both internal and external project communications.
• Contributes to developing design platforms and innovative solutions to design problems for the future.
• Works with Sales / BD to find and secure additional work from existing customers and programs.
• Captures additional revenue from scope increases or customer driven changes.

Specific Job Skills, abilities, and knowledge:

• Knowledge of Aerospace composites manufacturing
• Experience with aerospace process specifications and qualifications
• Proficient using MS Project and all MS Office tools
• Experience with the use of ERP systems
• Able to work and manage a project effectively with minimal supervision or direction
• Must be US Citizen
• Travel to customers as necessary, yearly to quarterly
• Ability to communicate professionally with customers under challenging circumstances.

Education/Experience:

• 5 years of Aerospace program management experience.

• Bachelors or Master’s degree in related discipline (Preferred)