UAS Engineering Project Manager

Airbus•Bingen, WA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Airbus is 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). This role reports directly to the Chief Engineer and will serve as the strategic engine driving multiple cross-functional teams, steering complex hardware products from initial proposal through successful production launch. This 100% onsite role offers the opportunity to directly influence company revenue and shape the next generation of unmanned flight. The Airbus Helicopters Flexrotor Program offers one of the most sophisticated small tactical unmanned aerial systems (STUAS) with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL), used day or night by US and allied forces for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) on land and at sea.

Requirements

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.
Five (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.
Must be a US Person under ITAR definition (U.S. Citizen, green card holder or person covered under our existing ITAR license)
Able to see and read computer screens and other electronic equipment with screens, able to read documents, reports and engineering drawings daily.
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.
Able to speak in conversations and meetings, deliver information and participate in communications daily.
Able to operate most office and personal electronic equipment and some tools including production tools such as hydraulic lifts daily.
Able to carry documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs daily.
Able to lift documents, tools, drawings, electronic equipment up to 30lbs/14kgs daily.
Able to push and pull small office furniture and some equipment and tools daily.
Able to sit for long periods of time in meetings, working on the computer daily.
Able to squat or kneel to retrieve or replace items stored on low shelving.
Able to stand for discussions in offices or on the production floor daily.
Able to travel independently and at short notice several times a month.
Able to walk through office and production areas including uneven surfaces daily.
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.
Steel-toed shoes are required for all shop floor visits, appropriate hearing/eye protection may also be required when visiting the shop floor.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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.
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.

Benefits

Competitive base salary
incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes
retirement savings plan
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)
Paid time off including personal time
holidays
generous paid parental leave program
Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans)
prescription
dental
vision
life
disability
Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”)
other supplemental benefit coverages.