Required Skills & Experience
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline
- Engineering, project-execution, or operations experience in complex manufacturing
- Experience managing multiple projects or priorities simultaneously
- Experience owning project cost, schedule, scope, and risk
- Experience developing estimates or cost baselines
- Project-budget ownership
- Cross-functional leadership without direct authority
- Risk identification and mitigation
- Strong planning and organizational skills
- Ability to interpret project-performance information
- Ability to drive corrective actions
- Effective communication across functions and organizational levels Ability to work onsite in Moorpark, California
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
Plusses
- Energetics experience
- Aerospace or defense manufacturing
- 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 Moorpark, California. This role will own multiple development and production projects and lead cross-functional teams against cost, schedule, scope, technical-performance, and risk commitments. Job Logistics
- Location: Moorpark, California
- Travel: 10% may be required
- Employment Type: Direct Placement
- Work Model: Onsite
- Tools/Tech: Microsoft Project, Excel, Teams, IFS, structured execution systems, visual management, schedule management, project cost controls, and risk-management systems
The shared formal JD lists 10% travel, while the internal scorecard lists willingness to travel up to 20%. Confirm the Moorpark threshold before using travel as a hard gate.
Day to Day
- Own full lifecycle execution of assigned projects
- Manage several concurrent projects with shorter delivery cycles
- Make day-to-day execution and prioritization decisions
- Develop project plans, schedules, milestones, and budgets
- Lead engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, and finance
- Resolve resource and priority conflicts across active projects
- Make cost, schedule, and technical trade decisions
- Establish operating cadence and visual management
- Identify risks and implement mitigation plans
- Drive cost-variance identification and corrective action
- Provide visibility into project status, cost, schedule, and risk
- Support proposal development
- Lead development-to-production transitions
- Ensure compliance with contractual requirements and statements of work Capture lessons learned and improve future execution
Compensation: Salary: $110,000 to $150,000. 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.