Job Description:

Lead the Future of Autonomous Aviation: Engineering Project Manager (VTOL UAS)

Are you an experienced aerospace engineer who thrives at the intersection of technical innovation and flawless execution? We are seeking a high-caliber Engineering Project Manager to spearhead the development, manufacturing, and sustainment of cutting-edge Vertical Takeoff and Landing Unmanned Aircraft Systems (VTOL UAS). Reporting directly to the Chief Engineer, you will serve as the strategic engine driving multiple cross-functional teams, steering complex hardware products from initial proposal through successful production launch. If you possess a rare blend of deep technical engineering roots and master-level schedule and risk management expertise, this 100% onsite role offers the opportunity to directly influence company revenue and shape the next generation of unmanned flight.

Your Challenges:

Engineering Project Management: 90%

• Creates 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 necessary engineering deliverables 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 tracks risks and issues, determines 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 deliverables, with minimal delay.
• Creates work breakdown structure (WBS) from team member input and completes with missing fundamental steps to achieve project deliverable.
• Analysis and identifies high-level milestones, dependencies, critical path, free slack, resource utilization, risk and issues, and cost.
• Creates weekly status briefs and materials for project reviews.
• Maintains list of backlog projects and efforts and ensures periodic review and disposition of priority.

Process Development: 5%

• Develops and continually improves the engineering project management function, its process and tools.

Technical Administration: 5%

• Coordinates and performs necessary hands-on technical work, engineering change process (EC) documentation, and administrative work otherwise unassigned to project team.

Your Boarding Pass:

• Must possess a Bachelors of Science degree or greater in mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or equivalent.
• Ten (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.
• Fve (5) + years' Experience as project manager, managing multiple engineering projects, and project teams through all phases of the design and development cycle.
• Experienced in producing integrated project schedules and reports in MS Project, or like system, identifying dependencies, critical path, free slack, resource utilization, cost, and risk and issues.
• Basic technical knowledge of UAS, its subsystems, and technology.

Preferred Skills:

• PDM/ERP
• Experience managing or supporting software development projects in compliance with DO-178 certification standards for airborne systems.

Travel Required:

• Minimal travel-

Citizenship:

• Must be a US Person under ITAR definition (U.S. Citizen, green card holder or person covered under our existing ITAR license)

Physical Requirements:

• 100% Onsite- Bingen, WA
• 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 daily.
• Lifting: able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs daily.
• Pushing / Pulling: able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools daily.
• 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.
• Standing: able to stand for discussions in offices or on the production floor daily.
• Travel: able to travel independently and at short notice several times a month.
• 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 required 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.

Annual salaryrange based on the required profile: $143k - $229kActual minimum and maximum may vary based on geographic differential. Individual pay is based on skills, experience, and other relevant factors.

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A full job description will be provided to candidates who progress to the interview stage or any candidate upon request.

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 Corporation

Employment Type:
US - Direct Hire

Experience Level:
Professional

Remote Type:
On-site

Job Family:
Programme & Project Management