Aerospace Technology Project Manager

GKN Aerospace company; Westlake (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

GKN Aerospace is seeking an early-career Technology Project Manager to support planning, coordination, and delivery of technology-focused projects in the United States. You will collaborate with R&D teams, vendors, and stakeholders to ensure projects meet scope, schedule, and objectives.

The role involves translating business needs into actionable project plans, maintaining schedules, managing risks, and communicating progress to leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field, or equivalent relevant education/experience.
• 2-5 years of professional, internship, co-op, military, or comparable experience.
• Comfortable working in an R&D environment where results are unpredictable.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple activities and priorities simultaneously.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Comfortable collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of productivity tools such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, and Outlook.
• Working knowledge of project management tools such as Microsoft Planner, Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar platforms.

Responsibilities

• Help translate business requirements into clear project activities and deliverables.
• Work with engineers, developers, infrastructure teams, vendors, and other technical subject-matter experts to plan and coordinate technology projects and proposals from initiation through completion.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, milestones, task lists, and status reports.
• Track project deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, and action items. Prepare concise project updates for stakeholders and leadership.
• Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, value and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
• Actively assess risk profile and determine effective mitigation plans to minimize project risks.
• Communicate project status, upcoming milestones, blockers, and dependencies clearly including managing communication with internal and external stakeholders. Escalate issues to management as needed.
• Develop resource needs, availability, and allocation based on project scope.
• Coordinate activities across technical teams, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors.
• Facilitate project meetings and document decisions, actions, owners, and due dates.
• Follow up with stakeholders to ensure commitments and project milestones remain on track.
• Measure and analyse project performance using appropriate tools and techniques and define recovery plans where deviations to plan so demand.
• Help ensure project documentation is organized, current, and accessible to appropriate stakeholders.
• Participate in project retrospectives and capture lessons learned.
• Develop a working understanding of the technologies associated with assigned projects.
• Support technology deployments, upgrades, system implementations, lab initiatives, proof-of-concept projects, and other technical programs.
• Assist with implementation readiness and project closeout activities as applicable

Skills

Organizational and time management

Written and verbal communication

Multitasking

Analytical and problem solving

Stakeholder collaboration

Documentation and reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Equivalent relevant education/experience

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Teams

Outlook

Microsoft Planner

Microsoft Project

Azure DevOps

Jira

Job description

GKN Aerospace is seeking an early-career Technology Project Manager to support planning, coordination, and delivery of technology-focused projects in the United States. You will collaborate with R&D teams, vendors, and stakeholders to ensure projects meet scope, schedule, and objectives.

The role involves translating business needs into actionable project plans, maintaining schedules, managing risks, and communicating progress to leadership.