Project Manager

Aversan Inc. (www.aversan.com) is a trusted multi-service engineering and electronics manufacturing company. Aversan delivers leading-edge and reliable safety-critical electronics and software systems to the aerospace, defense, and space industries. We are seeking a Senior level Project Manager with solid embedded software technical skills. Your contributions in the role play a critical part in the success of our North America Professional Services team, having project ownership with a wide range of responsibilities which lead to ultimately delivering on all customer commitments.

Work Arrangement: Remote

The Focus Of This Role Has Two Main Areas

• Proposal Development, Estimation and Pre-sales support work with the sales staff, business directors, technical leads, and other project managers to qualify pre-sales opportunities, perform architecture trade-off analysis and project feasibility, document proposed product solutions, estimate costs, and schedules, prepare written proposals, and present proposals to customers on larger or technically challenging projects or multiple related projects.
• Project Execution from start to finish. Set-up project development teams and manage the teams to complete small to large projects in technically challenging areas. You will work directly with our customers on these projects and you, and your team will be responsible for delivering these design projects on time and within budget while meeting quality and contract requirements and ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction.
  
  

Responsibilities

• Primary customer interface and responsible for maintaining customer focus and managing the customer interaction during discovery and evaluation of requirements
• Manages execution on the opportunity and maintains inter-group relationships throughout pre-sales life cycle
• Responsible for delivery of proposal packages including Statements of Work (SOW), project plan, detailed schedule, resources planning, risk assessment and management, cost and profit analysis
• Conducts technical and business presentations to customers, using your strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ensuring deliverables are world-class standard
• Projects high levels of confidence and strong technical ability to our customers and has a track record of successful closure on opportunities
• Embedding a culture of continuously improving & optimizing processes
• Measuring, analyzing & taking action to continuously improve customer satisfaction including effective escalation management
• In due course, responsible for the management of Software Engineers and other Project Managers
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
• Strong engineering experience or management expertise with embedded systems (software and/or hardware)
• Strong desire for candidate to have hands-on experience doing Project Management with one or more software safety certification standards such as DO-178C, FACE, IEC61508, IEC62504, ISO26262, etc.