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Job Description:
Aerovel (The Airbus Helicopters Flexrotor Program) is looking for an Engineering Project Manager to join our engineering department based in Bingen, WA.
In this role, you will lead multiple concurrent multi-functional engineering projects for internal and external project teams, developing, manufacturing, and sustaining VTOL UAS technologies and products. You will also develop and continually improve the engineering project management function and its processes and tools.
Meet the Team:
The Airbus Helicopters Flexrotor Program offers one of the most advanced small tactical unmanned aerial systems (STUAS) with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL). It can be used day or night by US and allied forces for a diverse range of intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) on land and at sea.
Your Working Environment:
Nestled in the heart of the stunning Columbia River Gorge in Bingen, WA, our workplace offers innovation and the ability to contribute to game-changing solutions while enjoying the flexibility to spread your wings. Whether it&39;s solving complex challenges, or celebrating victories, you’ll be part of a cohesive crew that thrives on innovation and the beauty that the Pacific Northwest has to offer!
How We Care for You:
Financial Rewards: Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)
Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program.
Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.
Individual Development: Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000&43; e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes and both national and international mobility.
Your Challenges:
Engineering Project Management: 90Creates and maintains the master engineering project schedule and risks and issues register, comprising projects of all sizes and complexity, all phases from proposal and planning, through execution to completion.
Drives project team’s weekly goals setting and achievements, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of status with frequent efficient small meetings and minimized large group meeting time.
Ensures all engineering work and coordination are accounted for in the project activity, including approvals, BOM, drawing release, work-instruction development, configuration control, hardware lead-times, inspections, manufacturing trials, manufacturing tool-kits, parts kits, verification testing and reporting.
Identifies and manages risks and resolves dependencies, prioritizes, acquires disposition, ownership assignment, and activity to mitigate and resolve.
Forecasts, identifies, and removes obstacles from project teams’ path, such that project team may maintain focus on core work, with minimal delay.
Creates work breakdown structure (WBS) from team member input and completes with missing fundamental steps to achieve project results.
Analysis and identifies high-level achievements, dependencies, critical path, free slack, resource utilization, risk and issues, and cost.
Creates weekly status briefs and materials for project evaluations.
Maintains list of backlog projects and efforts and ensures periodic review and disposition of priority.
Process Development: 5
Technical Administration: 5
Coordinates and performs vital hands-on technical work, engineering change process (EC) documentation, and administrative work otherwise unassigned to project team.
Builds briefs, reports, and presentations.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Your Boarding Pass- Required for consideration:Bachelors of Science degree or greater in mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or equivalent.
Minimum 10 years’ professional experience with a combination of the following:
Five (5) years’ experience as a product development engineer, performing development engineering and leading hardware product through phases of the engineering development cycle, including design, drawing release, selection of supplier, sourcing and testing prototypes, resolving pre-production issues, and successful production launch.
Five (5) years’ Experience as project manager, leading multiple engineering projects, and project teams through all phases of the design and development cycle.
Experienced in producing coordinated project schedules and reports in MS Project, or like systems, identifying dependencies, critical path, free slack, resource utilization, cost, and risk and issues.
Knowledge and skills in the engineering development processes, drawing release process, supplier selection and procurement, bills of materials, and configuration management.
Knowledge, skills, and capability to produce multiple integrated project schedules in MS Project, or like system, identify dependencies, critical path, free slack, resource utilization, cost, and risk and issue management.
Skills and capability to lead multiple small team meetings and supervise action items, weekly.
Basic technical knowledge of UAS, its subsystems, and technology.
Microsoft Project and other scheduling and team collaboration software tools.
Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat.
<5 Domestic and International travel
Must be a US Person under ITAR definition (U.S. Citizen, green card holder or person covered under our existing ITAR license)
Preferred Education/Skills:Physical Requirements:Onsite or remote: 95 Onsite
Vision: able to see and read computer screens and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings daily.
Hearing: able to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds on the production floor including safety warnings or alarms daily.
Speaking: able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications daily.
Equipment Operation (personal computer, telephone, copies, fax machine, and related office equipment and using electronic identification card to enter building floors and internal doors): able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment and some tools including production tools such as hydraulic lifts daily.
Carrying: able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs occasionally.
Lifting: able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs occasionally.
Pushing / Pulling: able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools occasionally.
Sitting: able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on the computer daily.
Squatting / Kneeling: able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving occasionally.
Standing: able to stand for discussions in offices or on the production floor daily.
Travel: able to travel independently and at short notice occasionally.
Walking (include routine walking such as to a shared printer to retrieve documents): able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces daily.
Personal Protective Equipment required: Required PPE includes, but is not limited to, Safety Shoes, Safety Glasses, Hearing Protection, Respirators/Masks, and/or Protective Gloves as the need arises by site and/or customer site
Administrative position only PPE required: Steel-toed shoes are required for all shop floor visits, appropriate hearing/eye protection may also be required when visiting the shop floor.
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A full job description will be provided to candidates who progress to the interview stage or any candidate upon request.
Salary range based on the required profile: $110,000- $168,000 annually. Actual minimum and maximum may vary based on geographic differential. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors
This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.
Company:
Aerovel CorporationEmployment Type:
US - Direct HireExperience Level:
ProfessionalRemote Type:
On-siteJob Family:
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