Aerospace Program Manager - Global Transfer & APQP

Woodward L'Orange; Polska; On-site; PLN 201,000 - 318,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Life & accidental insurance

Multisport package

Meal vouchers

Company performance bonus

Work-life balance

PPK: employer contribution to PPK

Educational support

Job summary

Woodward L'Orange in Poland seeks an experienced Project/Program Manager to lead customer-facing workstreams within international production transfer programs. You will coordinate APQP deliverables, manage quality topics and provide visibility of readiness, risks and decisions.

You will guide cross-functional teams across product, process, tooling, and documentation to ensure launch readiness and compliance, and you will report on progress to customers and stakeholders in the United States.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Industrial Management, Business or related field.
• 10+ years of project or program management experience in aerospace, automotive or regulated manufacturing.
• Experience with production transfers, industrialization, NPI or major operational change.
• Knowledge of APQP, Part-145 and customer-specific quality deliverables is a plus.
• Ability to lead international cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Fluent English and comfortable leading customer meetings and issue-resolution discussions.
• Availability for regular afternoon/early-evening calls with US customers.
• Strong planning, communication, stakeholder-management, risk-management and problem-solving.
• Proficiency with MS Project, Planisware or similar.

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned customer-facing workstreams for international production transfers and post-transfer industrialization.
• Own the plan for customer requirements, APQP deliverables and other compliance commitments, including timing, status, evidence and closure.
• Act as a primary coordination point for customer questions, concerns, dependencies and readiness reviews related to the transition.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure product, process, tooling, documentation, capacity and quality readiness.
• Manage the customer and quality aspects of production transfer, including open issues, corrective actions, approvals and launch readiness.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, milestones, action logs, risk registers and decision records.
• Identify schedule, quality, compliance and execution risks; establish owners, mitigation actions and escalation paths.
• Prepare and present concise status updates covering progress, deliverables, risks, decisions, backlog and recovery actions.
• Lead regular project reviews and customer update meetings, ensuring actions are documented and completed on time.

Skills

Fluent English

Lead cross-functional teams

Project planning

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Quality, Industrial Management, Business or a related field

Job description

Woodward L'Orange in Poland seeks an experienced Project/Program Manager to lead customer-facing workstreams within international production transfer programs. You will coordinate APQP deliverables, manage quality topics and provide visibility of readiness, risks and decisions.

You will guide cross-functional teams across product, process, tooling, and documentation to ensure launch readiness and compliance, and you will report on progress to customers and stakeholders in the United States.