Engineering Project Manager

  • American BOA, Incorporated
  • Cumming, Georgia
  • Full Time

Job description

Position Summary

This role will be responsible for the planning, execution, monitoring, controlling, and close out of assigned proposals, development, and production programs. The role will support aerospace business with primes and United States Government (USG). This position will be responsible for the achievement of customer and internal business case objectives by working across all the business functions to formulate both strategic vision and tactical direction for the assigned programs and projects.

Essential Functions

  • Lead program team through the new product introduction phase of programs to ensure successful transition to production and customer services.
  • Lead and facilitate customer interfacing on development and production/sustainment programs.
  • Manage the overall customer and business case performance of the program portfolio with responsibility and accountability for success to time, cost and quality constraints.
  • Generate program plan, schedule, work breakdown structure, budget, and risk mitigation plans as required from which functional execution plans are developed.
  • Responsible for ensuring all development programs are adequately planned at a business and functional level to deliver on business case and customer contract objectives.
  • Knowledge of core planning elements such as requirements planning, deliverables definition, milestone definition, risk management, resource management, and critical path scheduling are key.
  • Responsible for ensuring scope, schedule, and cost baseline change controls.
  • Utilize a gated control and approval process for the product life cycle.
  • Responsible for customer scorecard performance and the associated internal performance measures.
  • Work across the functions to identify and plan activities required to continuously improve upon performance variances from business case objectives.
  • Manage through the program team for all "get to green" or "recovery" efforts on scorecard variances.
  • Develop, maintain, and manage internal performance scorecards for development and production programs.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Aerospace, Industrial, or Similar) and a minimum of 7 years of prior relevant experience
  • Program Management Professional (PMP) Certification

Additional Desired Skills:

  • Space or Aerospace industry experience.
  • Manufacturing and Research and Development (R&D) experience.
  • Demonstrated leadership capability and the ability to affect organizational change in challenging environments.
  • Must be adept at achieving results through multiple organizational functions without direct authority and through influence and negotiation.
  • A demonstrated capability to think strategically and execute tactically.
  • The successful candidate must be an integrative thinker with a strong foundation in data driven problem solving.
  • A demonstrated depth and breadth in business acumen across the major functional disciplines including Program Management, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Contracts, Business Development, Marketing, and Sales
  • Demonstrated ability to create management operating systems.
  • Demonstrated communication skills, both written and verbal, at all levels of the organization.
  • Must be skilled in building customer and subcontractor relationships while balancing strategic objectives.
  • Formal and informal negotiation experience.
  • Experience with New Production Introduction (NPI) using an Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) process.
  • Familiarity with various government contracting mechanisms and FAR, DFARS and DPAS clauses.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Employee assistance program
  • Employee discount
  • Flexible schedule
  • Flexible spending account
  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Professional development assistance
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Vision insurance

Schedule:

  • 8 hour shift

Experience:

  • Aerospace : 1 year (Required)
  • NPI: 1 year (Required)
  • APQP: 1 year (Required)

License/Certification:

  • PMP Certification (Required)

Ability to Commute:

  • Cumming, GA 30040 (Required)

Work Location: In person

Job ID: 484509573
Originally Posted on: 7/9/2025

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