Aviation Project Manager

GAME AEROSPACE • Bentonville, AR

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Game Aerospace is a growing business that designs, manufactures, and sells composite airplanes. Our hand-crafted airplanes are delivered and flown around the world. For more information about the GameBird and our company, visit our website game.aero. Game is seeking an Aviation Project Manager to lead the planning, coordination, and execution of aircraft-related projects across engineering, production, quality, supply chain, certification, and company leadership. This role is ideal for a strong aviation or aerospace project leader who understands how aircraft programs move through design changes, production support, certification activity, and implementation. The right person does not need to be a hands-on design engineer, but must be comfortable working with technical teams, aircraft documentation, project schedules, production priorities, and cross-functional stakeholders. The Aviation Project Manager will help keep aircraft programs organized, visible, and moving forward by managing timelines, tracking deliverables, coordinating communication, identifying risks, and driving accountability across teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Aviation, Aerospace, Engineering, Business, Project Management, Operations, or a related field; equivalent aviation/aerospace program experience may be considered.
• 5+ years of project management, program management, operations coordination, production support, or cross-functional leadership experience in aviation, aerospace, aircraft manufacturing, aircraft modification, defense, or a related technical environment.
• Experience coordinating projects across multiple departments such as engineering, production, quality, supply chain, certification, operations, or leadership.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities, schedules, deadlines, risks, and action items.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders in a fast-paced aircraft production, development, or technical operations environment.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in general aviation, aircraft manufacturing, aircraft modification, aircraft completions, MRO, defense aviation, or aerospace production.
• Experience supporting FAA certification, airworthiness, compliance documentation, test planning, STC activity, type design changes, or similar regulated aviation programs.
• Familiarity with engineering change processes, configuration management, production support, or aircraft build issue resolution.
• PMP, Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, or other project/program management training or certification.
• High intellectual curiosity, entrepreneurial, creative thinker and problem-solver, fast learner, with demonstrated initiative.
• High level of maturity and ability to work in a team setting or independently.
• Willing to roll up your sleeves to help drive results.
• Unquestionable ethics and personal integrity.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate aviation/aerospace projects involving engineering, production, quality, supply chain, certification, and leadership stakeholders.
• Manage project schedules, priorities, action items, risks, milestones, and deliverables across multiple active aircraft programs.
• Serve as a central point of coordination between engineering, manufacturing, quality, procurement, flight operations, certification representatives, and senior leadership.
• Track project status, identify risks or delays, and communicate clear updates, decisions, and next steps to leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Support engineering change, production support, and certification-related activity by coordinating reviews, approvals, documentation, implementation plans, and follow-up actions.

Benefits

• Employee Health Medical, Dental, and Vision – plans that include both PPO and High-Deductible HSA options for medical.
• Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (Health, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care) to reduce out-of-pocket costs.
• 401k Plan Highlights include a 4% company match with full vesting day 1.
• Our employee assistance program also includes financial coaching, will preparation, budgeting, and many more.
• Company-paid Life Insurance and company-paid Short-Term Disability provide built-in financial protection from day one.
• Optional supplemental Life, Long-Term Disability, Accident, and Critical Illness plans allow you to customize your coverage as your family’s needs grow.
• 160 hours of Paid Time Off in addition to paid holidays
• Employee Pilot Training Program to get you your pilot license — a truly unique perk in aerospace.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level