Required Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree
- Secret Clearence required
- 6+ years of relevant project management experience driving developmental builds forward within cost and schedule
- Experience overseeing an entire Aircraft build process, and understanding of how to complete the project within cost and schedule
- Strong experience presenting data analysis and communicating effectively to external customers and management
- Earned Value Management and reporting experience
- Microsoft office suite
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- MS Project skills, including creating, updating, and analyzing complex project schedules - to help BMAs troubleshoot
- Familiarity with Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) development and maintenance.
- Knowledge of scheduling best practices in aerospace or defense programs.
- Exceptional organizational skills
- Strong analytical problem solving skills and ability to implement sound critical thinking skills
- Experience working in a SAP (Special Access Program) environment ERP experience - Cost Point
Job Description
- Work closely with Contracts department, during contract award, to fully understand the contracted scope of work to be performed.
- Develop an earned value reporting process in order to meet program requirements
- Develop and maintain production schedules for complex aerospace systems
- Ensure alignment between manufacturing capacity and program timelines
- Support proposals and bids by providing accurate cost estimates
- Track actual costs vs. planned costs and identify variances
- Forecast labor, material, and equipment needs based on program requirements
- Develop strategies to mitigate bottlenecks and ensure on-time delivery
- Collaborate with the Project Engineer and shop lead to generate and maintain a schedule, with clearly defined milestones; adjust the budget and schedule to reflect any contractual changes
- Support the Project Engineer in monitoring and negotiating the engineering and shop staffing with regard to the right skills and number of people assigned to the project
- Provide the Project Engineer and Management with a health visibility report at established intervals as required or requested
- Verify (check and balance system) that the technical requirements of the contract are being fulfilled, and if not discuss with the Project Engineer and Management as required
- Advise and assist the Program Business Analysts as needed
- Manage resources for the implementation of project-related activities
- Excellent planning skills to include the ability to anticipate and prepare for challenges and obstacles
- Improvise and re-baseline as needed
- Track all expenditures, materials, subcontracts, etc., as requested by Management or required by the contract
Salary range: 90-160k