Roles and Responsibilities 

• Project Leadership and Execution

  • Lead day-to-day execution of internal aerospace projects, ensuring scope, schedule, cost, and quality objectives are met.
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams and shared resources (e.g., engineering, supply chain, quality, operations, finance) to deliver project milestones and internal commitments.
  • Develop, maintain, and track project plans, including timelines, dependencies, risks, and action logs; ensure accurate status visibility for stakeholders.
  • Drive risk and issue management, including identification, mitigation planning, tracking, and escalation when needed.

  Technical and Business Integration

  • Apply working knowledge of relevant aerospace technical domains to support planning, risk assessment, and decision-making.
  • Translate technical inputs and requirements into clear project tasks and
  • deliverables, ensuring alignment with safety, quality, and regulatory expectations.
  • Understand how project outcomes impact adjacent teams and programs, and coordinate to minimize conflicts and maximize value across the portfolio.
     

  Decision Making and Problem Solving

  • Use sound judgment to recommend options and trade-offs, balancing scope, schedule, cost, and risk within established project frameworks.
  • Analyze project data and performance metrics to identify trends, anticipate issues, and propose corrective actions.
  • Collaborate with functional experts to solve complex problems, leveraging internal networks and resources beyond the immediate project team.

  
  Stakeholder Management and Communication

  • Serve as the central coordination point for internal stakeholders, ensuring alignment on priorities, resources, and deliverables.
  • Prepare and deliver concise project updates (dashboards, reports, presentations) for stakeholders and functional leaders.
  • Facilitate effective meetings and working sessions, driving clear agendas, decisions, and documented follow-up actions.

  
  Team Collaboration and Coaching

  • Provide informal leadership to project team members, clarifying roles, expectations, and interfaces between functions.
  • Mentor and support junior team members or newer project coordinators, sharing best practices in project management tools and methods.
     

  Continuous Improvement and Standard Work

  • Contribute to the improvement of project management processes, tools, and standard work, identifying opportunities to streamline execution and enhance transparency.
  • Capture and document lessons learned and feed them back into internal processes, templates, and playbooks to improve future project performance.

Required Qualifications: 

• Active Military personnel on the last 180 days of service

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college (or a high school diploma / GED with at least 7 years of experience in project or program management, operations, or engineering)
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in project or program management, operations, or engineering

Desired Experience and Characteristics: 

• • Proven experience managing cross-functional projects end-to-end, including planning, scheduling, risk/issue management, and stakeholder coordination
  • Familiarity with standard project management methodologies and tools (e.g., MS Project, Primavera, Jira, or equivalent)
  • Working understanding of aerospace products, systems, ormanufacturing/operations processes sufficient to participate in technical discussions, understand dependencies, and assess project risks
  • Ability to understand key business drivers (cost, schedule, resource utilization, quality) and incorporate them into project planning and decision-making
  • Experience with basic financial tracking (budgets, forecasts, actuals) is preferred
  • Strong analytical skills and a structured problem-solving approach
  • Demonstrated ability to evaluate trade-offs, propose options, and make recommendations within defined frameworks
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to create clear project reports, dashboards, and presentations
  • Comfortable facilitating cross-functional meetings and aligning stakeholders
  • Demonstrated ability to provide informal leadership and influence without direct authority
  • Experience coordinating efforts across engineering, supply chain, quality, and operations
  • Experience mentoring junior team members is a plus
  • Proficiency with standard office and collaboration tools (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)
  • Experience with project management and reporting tools
  • Experience with ERP/MRP or PLM systems is a plus
  • Project Management certification such as PMP is preferred but not
  • Strong ownership mindset, attention to detail, and follow-through
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment
  • Continuous improvement mindset focused on Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost

  
   

  This role requires access to U.S. export-controlled information. Therefore, employment will be contingent upon the ability to prove that you meet the status of a U.S. Person as one of

  the following: U.S. lawful permanent resident, U.S. Citizen, have been granted asylee or refugee status (i.e., a protected individual under the Immigration and Naturalization Act, 8

  U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).