Job Description

Essential Responsibilities        

• Provide leadership and technical direction for specific programs with significant business impact

• Establish plan, define tasks and objectives and identify resources/funding source

• Manage the program, provide interim reports to customer, modify plan as required

• Provide counsel to the team on design and manufacturing/process practices and standards

• Coordinate and support the Supply Chain departments and the involved plants in the execution of the activities required by the development plan

• Ensure development, implementation, and maintenance of technical operating plans, matching the program delivery milestones, the industrialization targets, the product quality, the capability and capacity needs

• Effectively communicate and influence partnership programs, interactions, and relationships

• Support processes to improve efficiencies of the team

• Responsible for reporting-out frequently on the status of initiatives, and client business performance

Qualifications/Requirements           

• Engineering Master’s degree

• Previous experience in New Product Introduction multi-year development projects/programs

• Proven ability to guide and lead others in a matrix environment

• Prior program/project management experience

• Technical competence on products and processes, obtained in Design Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering or Production Engineering Previous experience

• Availability to travel as needed to support the Business

• Italian and Fluent English language, oral and written

• Work Visa and Italian citizenship, according to local regulation, are required

Desired Characteristics

• Experience in Aviation Business

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Ability to manage complex multi-year technical programs in a matrix resource environment

• Previous experience leading multi-discipline engineering/technical teams

• Strong influencing skills in a global environment

• Ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines

• Strong process discipline with sound analytic and statistical skills

• Know-how in APQP/AS13100 and LEAN principles and methods

• Change oriented – actively generates process improvements, champions and drives change initiatives, confronts difficult circumstances in creative ways, balances multiple and competing priorities and executes accordingly

What we offer

Smart working and work life-balance

Avio Aero, when possible, promotes remote work and encourages a good, healthy and satisfying work-life balance. We value our employees’ wellbeing; hence we offer a variety of improvement programs aimed to preserve anyone’s psychological safety and daily needs.

Total Rewards

At Avio Aero, we understand the importance of Total Rewards. As a new joiner to Avio Aero we are pleased to offer the following welcome benefit plan:

• Performance related bonuses and local bonus scheme

• Flexible benefits platform

• GE share plan

• Life and injury insurance

• Private medical cover  

• Employee assistant program

• Employee special awards (service and recognition)   

• Local special agreements and discounts

• English and languages training for you and one member of your family

• Technical, Leadership and development trainings

Inclusion & Diversity

Avio Aero is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we are strongly committed to maintain an inclusive and diverse environment. Every employment decision is taken regardless to national or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, etc.

We are not all the same. Just be Yourself AvioAero!

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