Work Transfer Project Manager (Aerospace & Defence)

Title: Work Transfer Project Manager

Location: Windsor Locks, Connecticut

Employment Type: Full-time (permanent)

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead supply chain and supplier development projects from initiation through completion.
• Manage project schedules, budgets, revenue forecasts, and customer deliverables.
• Track supplier commitments, identify risks, and implement escalation and recovery plans.
• Facilitate meetings with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
• Conduct supplier assessments and drive performance improvements using Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.
• Develop and maintain Supplier Improvement Plans (SIPs) and KPI dashboards.
• Support supplier quality initiatives, documentation updates, and training activities.
• Lead end-to-end supplier work transfers and global transitions, from initial business case and transition planning through production readiness, cutover, stabilization, and closure.
• Develop integrated transition plans covering scope, milestones, resource requirements, dependencies, risk controls, governance, and success criteria.
• Coordinate sending-site and receiving-site activities across global teams, suppliers, engineering, quality, operations, planning, procurement, legal, and customer stakeholders.
• Manage transition readiness, including capacity, tooling, equipment, documentation, training, qualifications, first article requirements, inventory strategy, and production validation.
• Establish clear ownership, decision paths, reporting cadence, and escalation mechanisms across locations, functions, and time zones.
• Track transition actions to closure and maintain disciplined follow-up and follow-through on commitments, risks, approvals, and recovery actions.
• Drive knowledge transfer and lessons learned to support sustainable handoff, operational stability, and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate approvals across engineering, quality, legal, planning, and procurement teams.
• Prepare RFQs, supplier evaluation packages, due diligence reviews, and sourcing documentation.
• Manage supplier communications throughout the RFQ, evaluation, and award process.
• Support drawing reviews, manufacturing readiness activities, and technical reviews.
   

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, Operations, or related field.
• 5 years of project management experience in aerospace, manufacturing, supply chain, or supplier development environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading work transfers, supplier transitions, site-to-site transfers, or global transition programs in a regulated manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of supplier management, production operations, quality systems, and procurement processes.
• Experience managing budgets, forecasts, schedules, and stakeholder communications.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and organizational skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.
   

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP Certification.
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt.
• Experience with aerospace quality standards (AS9100).
• Familiarity with SAP, Oracle, or other ERP systems.
   

Key Attributes:

• Accountability: Accepts responsibility for outcomes, communicates status transparently, and ensures commitments are met.
• Ownership: Takes initiative, anticipates issues, and drives work to completion without waiting for others to resolve gaps.
• Superior Follow-Up and Follow-Through: Maintains disciplined action tracking, closes loops, and verifies that decisions and deliverables are fully implemented.
• Critical Thinking: Evaluates complex information, challenges assumptions, identifies root causes, and makes sound, timely decisions.
• Professional Tenacity: Persists through obstacles, respectfully challenges delays or ambiguity, and drives resolution without becoming aggressive

Primary Skills and Expertise:

• Work Transfer & Site-to-Site Transition Management
• Supplier Development & Performance Improvement
• Supply Chain Risk Management
• Global Operations & Manufacturing Transition Management
• Critical thinking
• Persistent drive to solutions

Thanks & regards
Jitendra Shakya
PURPLE HIRES INC.
Phone: 307-218-6171
Email: jitendra@purplehires.com