Required Skills & Experience
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline
- Five to ten years of engineering, project execution, or operations experience
- Complex manufacturing experience, such as aerospace or defense
- Experience managing project cost, schedule, and scope
- Experience developing cost estimates and establishing cost baselines
- Project-budget ownership
- Cross-functional leadership without direct authority
- Risk identification and mitigation experience
- Strong planning and organizational skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to interpret project-performance data and drive corrective actions Effective communication across functions and organizational levels
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
Plusses
- Experience across both development and production
- Lean principles
- Kaizen
- Visual management
- Structured problem solving
- Proposal cost and schedule development
- Forecasting
- Estimate at completion
- Variance analysis EBOS or another structured business operating system
Job Description
We are looking for an Integrated Product Team Leader for an aerospace and defense manufacturer in Simsbury, Connecticut. This role will own assigned development and production projects and lead cross-functional teams against cost, schedule, scope, technical-performance, and risk commitments.
Job Logistics
- Location: Simsbury, Connecticut
- Travel: 10% may be required
- Employment Type: Direct Placement
- Work Model: Onsite
- Tools/Tech: Structured execution systems, visual management, project cost controls, schedule management, risk management, Microsoft Project, Excel, Teams, and IFS The formal JD specifies 10% travel. The internal scorecard separately references willingness to travel up to 20%, so the final screening threshold should be confirmed before travel is treated as a hard gate.
Day to Day
- Own full lifecycle execution of assigned projects
- Make day-to-day execution and prioritization decisions
- Build executable project plans, schedules, milestones, and budgets
- Lead engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, and finance
- Make cost, schedule, and technical trade decisions
- Partner with Program Managers on scope, execution, customer expectations, and contractual requirements
- Establish operating cadence and visual management
- Identify risks and implement mitigation plans
- Drive cost-variance identification and recovery
- Report project status, financial performance, risks, and recovery plans
- Support proposal development
- Lead development-to-production transitions
- Ensure compliance with contractual requirements and statements of work
- Capture lessons learned and implement continuous improvements
Compensation: Salary: $110,000 to $140,000. Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education. Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.