Aerospace Program Manager, Transparencies

As the Aerospace Transparencies Program Manager you will oversee the program lifecycle management (PLM) from concept through development into sustainable production and into sunset of aerospace transparencies for fixed wing aircraft and rotorcraft applications (military and commercial). This role involves managing cross-functional teams, coordinating with suppliers and customers, ensuring compliance with aerospace standards, and driving program schedules, budgets, and quality objectives to successful completion for a portfolio of programs. This is a hybrid role at our Sylmar, CA. facility. You will report to the Transparencies Global Program Director.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage all aspects of programs at various stages of the PLM process ensuring understanding of customer requirements and our goals.

• Be strategic and tactical with an objective to deliver the agreed upon program(s) budget.

• Develop detailed program plans, schedules, budgets, and resource allocations and monitor progress and implement corrective actions.

• Collaborates and guides engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, R&D and procurement teams to ensure seamless program execution.

• Construct integrated project teams (IPT).

• Maintain customer communications in all programmatic aspects and collaborate with stakeholders to gain support for program execution.

• Ensures completion/updates of product design, tooling, EMD/LRIP/FRP product and process documentation (BOO/BOMs), etc.

• Manages ancillary program activities such as NRE efforts, etc., touching all aspects of the value stream.

• Provide a development forecast to S&OP Demand teams.*

• Builds project budgets and acquires funding approval for capital funds required.

• Identify program risks and develop mitigation strategies to put program(s) back to agreed upon schedule, cost, and quality.

• Ensure all aerospace transparencies comply with relevant customer requirements, industry standards (e.g., FAA, EASA, MIL-STD) and internal quality requirements.

• Prepare and present regular program status reports, including financial performance, schedule adherence, and risk assessments to senior management.

Qualifications

• Only U.S. Citizens, Green Card holders, and political asylees or refugees are eligible to apply.

• Candidates must have or be eligible to obtain top secret clearance.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline.

• 2+ years of program management or engineering experience in aerospace or defense industries.

• Knowledge of aerospace transparency materials (e.g., acrylics, polycarbonates, glass), manufacturing processes, and testing methods.

• Proficient in project management tools and software.

• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification is ideal.

• Travel 10% both domestic and international.

  Salary Range $112,000-$125,000

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