Engineering Project Manager

Job Title: - Engineering Project Manager / Product Owner

Location: - Long Beach, CA 90808

Duration: - Long term contract

Client: Avionics

Notes:

We have a long-term contract opportunity for an Engineering Project Manager/Product Owner with avionics experience. This role is located in Long Beach, CA, and requires solid experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies. Due to the nature of the work, US citizenship is required. Experience with the SCFTA project (Safety Critical Function Thread Analysis) is a plus.

Job Description:

• The Delivery Manager responsibilities are broad and rewarding. In this position you will be the technical and contractual interface to our customers. You will be responsible for capturing new, follow-on and grow business through development of relationships.
• You will be working in a technical and programmatic consultative role and setting, meeting and exceeding project expectations. This will require technical depth in electronic product development and full life cycle embedded development (software and/or hardware). You are responsible for ensuring Safety, Quality, Delivery and Cost goals for your projects are achieved.

Background Industry:

• Avionics (other regulated industries can be considered).
• Development Processes: Structured (e.g. DO-178, DO-254, ARP4754A)

Communication Skills:

• Excellent verbal communications
• Excellent written communications and presentation skills

Leadership Skills:

• Experience building, coaching and leading teams
• Experience managing customers in a consultative fashion.
• Plan and execute all aspects of project management and delivery for T&M and FFP projects.
• Be consultative with customers to understand their technical and programmatic challenges to develop solutions to address their needs. This requires technical depth in embedded electronic product development.

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for successfully managing all technical, schedule, financial, forecasting and contractual aspects of multiple projects. You will have the financial responsibility for assigned projects.
• Work with customers to define requirements and be the primary contact on status and performance.
• Anticipates and fulfills customer needs to ensure their satisfaction and business growth.
• Captures new business and manages a variety of Bid and Proposal efforts.
• Participates in business strategy sessions.
• Leads a functional team of engineers with a wide range of skill sets, ensuring roles and responsibilities of all team members are well understood and executed.
• Provide overall leadership to project teams and drive technical compliance.
• Leads project review sessions with the customer to address cost, schedule and technical performance.
• Manages subcontractor actions and performance.
• Develops and manages technical performance metrics on assigned projects.
• Identifies project risks and recommends and execute a mitigation plan.