Aviation Project Lead

Click Digital; Broughton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Aviation organisation is seeking an Aviation Project Lead/Manager in Broughton. The role involves supporting the repurpose of the A380 factory, ensuring projects meet costs and timelines, and leading teams to implement new practices. Strong project management experience and knowledge of factory enabling processes are required. Excellent stakeholder management skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong facilitation skills for leading and motivating teams.
• Experience in change management for factory enablement.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of new working practices and best practices.
• Create governance framework for future strategy and tool replenishment.
• Support production areas with facility improvements.
• Drive safety, quality, cost, delivery, and people initiatives.

Skills

Facilitation skills

Stakeholder management

Negotiation skills

Ability to manage conflicts

Change management

Job description

Overview

We are recruiting for an Aviation Project Lead/Manager on contract to work for a leading Aviation organisation.

Role will be supporting with the repurpose of the A380 factory over to Single Aisle production. Ensuring project is running to cost, timescales and deliverables. Would suit a strong Project Manager who has experience with the process of change and enablement of a factory/ site and getting this ready for production.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enablement for rate ++ through implementing “new ways of working” and best practices, that have been explored internally and externally.
• Create an enablement governance framework to ensure future strategy and tool replenishment are planned and actioned through engagement and actions with the Plant Capex team.
• Explore new technologies with action to implement new tooling solutions, which are external to Airbus to deliver on the sustainability improvements within the TCO\'s Responsible for Enablement.
• Support to production areas with the Rate ++ facility.
• Provide leadership of the Enablement teams for Rate++, ensuring they are suitably developed and empowered to deliver.
• Responsible for daily tool control for and process.
• Responsible for LOLER management.
• Responsible for FOD improvement and project management.
• Ensure EHS and Airworthiness standards are met and drive the Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery and People (SQCDP) process to identify and implement potential improvements.

General Skills & Competencies

• Strong facilitation skills for leading, motivating & enabling the team performance
• Ability to listen, understand and respond in a constructive manner
• Ability to negotiate, influence and to manage conflicts
• Willingness and ability to handle changes on a day-to-day basis in a timely manner
• Experience in stakeholder management, ability to engage skills of different functions
• Excellent stakeholder management skills