Aerovel Flexrotor - Engineering Project Manager

Job Description:

Airbus is an international pioneer in the aerospace industry. We are a leader in designing, manufacturing and delivering aerospace products, services and solutions to customers on a global scale. We aim for a better-connected, safer and more prosperous world.

A commercial aircraft manufacturer, with Space and Defense as well as Helicopters Divisions, Airbus is the largest aeronautics and space company in Europe and a worldwide leader.

Airbus has built on its strong European heritage to become truly international - with roughly 180 locations and 12,000 direct suppliers globally. The company has aircraft and helicopter final assembly lines across Asia, Europe and the Americas, and has achieved a more than six fold order book increase since 2000.

Are you ready to soar with us? Aerovel, a trailblazer in the unmanned aircraft industry, is seeking an Engineering Project Manager to lead multiple concurrent multi-functional engineering projects, of both internal and external project teams, developing, manufacturing, and sustaining VTOL UAS technologies and products. Develop and continually improve the engineering project management function, its processes and tools.

Meet the Team:

The Airbus Helicopters Flexrotor Program offers one of the most sophisticated 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 spectacular 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's solving complex challenges, or celebrating victories, you’ll be part of a cohesive crew that thrives on innovation and the beauty that the 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+ 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:

• Create and maintain 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.

• Drive 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.

• Create 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.

• Create weekly status briefs and materials for project evaluations.

• Maintain a list of backlog projects and efforts and ensure periodic review and disposition of priority.

Your Boarding Pass:

• Bachelors of Science degree or greater in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or equivalent.

• 10 years of relevant experience in Engineering. 

• 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.

Physical Requirements:

• Onsite: 100% - Daily except when on travel. 

• Vision: able to see and read computer screen and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings daily

• Hearing: able to hear to participate in conversations in person and via teleconference or phone and to hear sounds including safety warnings or alarms daily

• Speaking: able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications daily

• Equipment Operation: able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment daily

• Carrying: able to carry documents, drawings, electronic equipment up to 10lbs daily

• Lifting: able to lift documents, drawings, electronic equipment up to 10lbs daily

• Pushing / Pulling: able to push and pull small office furniture occasionally

• Sitting: able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on 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 daily

• Travel: able to travel independently and at short notice rarely

• Walking: able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces daily

• Personal Protective Equipment required: Steel-toed shoes are required for all shop floor visits, appropriate hearing/eye protection may also be required when visiting the shop floor.

• Ability to work in the US without current, or future, need for visa sponsorship/work authorization is required for this opportunity.

Summary pay range:  $109,000 - $172,000 per year.  

Take your career to a new level and apply online now!

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.

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