Summary

The R&D Project Managers is a key role of the Technology and Product Development (TPD) Team that delivers forward leaning technology, products, and solutions to CAE though research and development initiatives. The ideal R&D Project Manager possesses a strong technical background and working knowledge of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) as well as traditional project management skills. An R&D Project manager is able to work in a fast-paced environment and owns cost and schedule performance for a portfolio of projects and delivers monthly reports on each project to multiple levels of leadership. This role works directly with project, technical and product leadership within the engineering team to achieve project outcomes on schedule, in scope and on budget. Additionally, this role is the primary interface to support groups outside of engineering like finance, procurement, and subcontracts for each project. The TPD team is executing a complex R&D strategy to serve business needs of CAE and across the globe. R&D project managers ensure we meet that challenge on time and on budget.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to manage multiple projects with complex funding profiles

• Perform all budget and forecasting related activities for projects across the portfolio

• Strategize with leaders to develop best practices for the project management process

• Execute the project review cycle process

• Align project resources to project budget and schedule

• Ensure skills of engineering resources aligned to execution needs

• Work with TPD Product Management team to ensure product need and roadmap are aligned to budget

• Identify and mitigate risks to schedule and costs

• Monitor and control the billing milestones schedule to include intercompany purchase orders

• Develop and maintain deliverables, KPMs & OKRs per TPD execution cadence

• Drive all purchasing with the D&S procurement team for the assigned projects

• Participate in the Scaled Agile Process by attending project team events

• Responsible for Control Account Management (CAM) duties for assigned projects in the context of SAFe execution

• Interface with business functions outside of engineering for reporting and process compliance

• Identify opportunities to streamline and improve processes in TPD
  

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Bachelors degree in engineering or technical area, may be waived with PMP Certification & prior experience.

• 5 years of relevant experience

• 2 years owning a leadership role for program/project, years maybe offset if well qualified candidate possesses a PMP certification

• Experience leading program/project teams using Agile development methodology.

• Expertise in Agile tools such as JIRA and AzureDevOps.

• Excellent interpersonal, collaboration and communication skills.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong working knowledge of Earned Value Management.

• Ability to travel < 20%.

• Must be eligible for DoD Secret Security Clearance.

Preferred Skills

• Strong background int Project and Financial management in DoD

• History writing proposal responses, SOWs and other contract related documentation.

• Background in Agile Software and Scaled Agile Framework development.

• Experience writing features, user stories and acceptance criteria.

• Strong presentation skills including preparing impactful material and delivering the message.

• Ability to read and interpret DoD and company regulations.

• Compilation of data and statistical analysis

• Experience with Power BI for actionable, on demand insights

• Current or prior CAE experience highly preferred

Security Responsibilities

Must complywith all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures. Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval. All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.

• Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.

Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Work activities require sitting, standing or walking for short periods throughout the day and focused visual concentration or focused listening.

• Ability to lift and carry a minimum of 35 pounds and manual dexterity to bend, stoop, squat and stand for prolonged periods

• Ability to sit and operate a personal computer for long periods

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.