Project Specialist, Regulatory

Virgin Galactic•Las Cruces, NM

1d•$81,650 - $124,600•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Project Specialist supporting the Regulatory team at Virgin Galactic, you will support critical activities towards establishing and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements related to our vehicles and mission operations. You will act as the team focal for ensuring that all activities are planned, tracked, and closed per program schedules. Support the company strategy by holding ourselves and one another accountable for getting the work done. This position is located in our Las Cruces, NM location and will be on-site 4 days per week and 1 day remote.

Requirements

Minimum of 3 years’ experience in aerospace or similar industry having technical regulatory requirements.
Associate degree or higher education
Demonstrated project management skills
Ability to multitask and effectively manage several parallel subprojects concurrently
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Must have above-average software skills: MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook
Demonstrate willingness to adjust thinking and behavior
Ability to communicate in a manner that is timely, respectful, and open to other ideas

Nice To Haves

Flight, manufacturing, or maintenance operations experience within an aerospace organization is a plus
Certified Associate Project Manager/CAPM or similar certification a plus
Experience in relational database management or data modeling a plus

Responsibilities

Act as team liaison with stakeholders to develop long-term project schedules, timelines, and deliverables and ensure those goals are met throughout the project's lifetime.
Facilitate communication between all project stakeholders and collaborators.
Run project update meetings with agendas and synthesize information into coherent report outs.
Develop requirement models to establish traceability for verification and validation activities within the digital thread.
Monitor project risks (both technical and business) and work with collaborators to develop mitigation plans.
Ensure project artifacts are organized, maintained, stored, and shared with project team members for efficient retrieval and use. This will include establishing traceability and relationships between artifacts and data objects as required in our regulatory model.
Work with data architects to develop and continually refine our regulatory model.
Coordinate with stakeholders in the preparation of data packages as may be required for documenting compliance activities.
Prepare data packages and compile artifacts in support of varied licensing, certification, and reporting standards as may be required by regulators (FAA, FCC, etc.).
Demonstrate high level of teamwork and collaboration in communicating, planning, negotiating, decision-making, and leadership.
Foster partnerships and relationships with key stakeholders and communities.
Work collaboratively to achieve goals and/or complete assigned tasks.