Aerospace Program Operations Lead

Firefly Aerospace; Bertram (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Firefly Aerospace seeks a Program Operations Manager to coordinate with program and factory leadership, ensuring quality, schedule, and cost commitments across the product life cycle. This role sits in Briggs, TX and requires broad collaboration across manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of program leadership experience or an advanced degree with 7+ years’ experience, with strong manufacturing and budget management capabilities.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience or an advanced degree with 7 years of experience.
• Experience in manufacturing, transition to production, and production ramp.
• Proven leadership across technical, program and manufacturing teams.

Responsibilities

• Primary interface between the program team and factory leadership to flow priorities and requirements.
• Collaborate with program, manufacturing, engineering, quality, supply chain, finance, and other functions to ensure needs are communicated and integrated.
• Lead production readiness reviews and coordinate inputs/actions to meet schedule and cost objectives.
• Provide budget allocation by factory for tooling, material, direct labor, and support labor.

Skills

Program leadership

Manufacturing operations

Budget management

Change management

Cross-functional leadership

Education

University degree

Advanced degree

Tools

ERP systems (Oracle/other)

Job description

Firefly Aerospace seeks a Program Operations Manager to coordinate with program and factory leadership, ensuring quality, schedule, and cost commitments across the product life cycle. This role sits in Briggs, TX and requires broad collaboration across manufacturing, engineering, and supply chain.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of program leadership experience or an advanced degree with 7+ years’ experience, with strong manufacturing and budget management capabilities.