UAS Engineering Project Manager

About the role

The Engineering Project Manager will lead the development, manufacturing, and sustainment of cutting-edge VTOL UAS. Reporting directly to the Chief Engineer, you will manage multiple cross-functional teams and ensure projects are executed efficiently from proposal to successful production launch.

Responsibilities

• Creates and maintains the master engineering project schedule and risks and issues register, ensuring all necessary engineering deliverables and coordination are accounted for.
• Drives project team’s weekly goals setting and achievements, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of status with frequent small meetings and minimized large group meetings.
• 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, ensuring 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.
• Analyzes 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.
• Develops and continually improves the engineering project management function, its process and tools.
• Coordinates and performs necessary hands-on technical work, engineering change process (EC) documentation, and administrative work otherwise unassigned to project team.

Requirements

• Must possess a Bachelors of Science degree or greater in mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or equivalent.
• At least 10 years of professional experience with a combination of the following: five years 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 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.

Qualifications

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

Skills

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

Benefits

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.

Pay

Annual salary range based on the required profile: $143k - $229k

Schedule

Onsite at Bingen, WA