Manufacturing Project Manager

Aerodyn; Sterling Heights (IN); On-site; USD 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Quarterly bonus incentive plans

Healthcare premiums covered

Life and AD&D insurance

Short-term disability

401(k) with match

Voluntary dental/vision

Paid time off

Job summary

Aerodyn Engineering in Indianapolis, IN, seeks a Manufacturing Project Manager to lead first-run aerospace hardware projects from quote to delivery. You will own schedules, technical details, and customer communications across engineering, shop floor, purchasing, and vendors.

You will manage 10–12 active projects, ensure quality and flight-worthiness, read specs and drawings, translate requirements into compliant plans, and report progress to leadership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years engineering/manufacturing project experience in aerospace or regulated environments.
• High school diploma required.
• Strong mechanical aptitude and ability to develop creative solutions.
• Excellent written, verbal, and technical communication skills.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and self-directed with multi-project workload.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage detailed work instructions for one-time, first-article development hardware builds.
• Serve as the customer's primary point of contact — schedules, status updates, and proactive communication throughout each project.
• Own the technical details of projects: reading specs and drawings, translating customer requirements into a manufacturable, compliant plan.
• Provide internal reporting on project status, schedule changes, and cost impacts to leadership on a regular cadence.
• Coordinate with purchasing, materials, and outside vendors to keep procurement and subcontract work on schedule.
• Support large OEM aerospace customers with strict quality and flight-worthiness requirements, where documentation and precision are non-negotiable.
• Manage a portfolio of 10–12 active projects at once, keeping every detail on track across all of them.

Skills

5+ years exp

Strong mechanical aptitude

Excellent communication

Organized

Multi-project workload

Education

High school diploma

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Epicor or similar ERP

Job description

At a glance

Company: Aerodyn

Location: Indianapolis, IN 46241

Job Type: Full-Time

Experience: 5+ years

Why this job is worth considering

Aerodyn Engineering is looking for a Manufacturing Project Manager to lead complex, first-run aerospace and defense hardware projects from quote through delivery. Most of what Aerodyn builds isn't repeat work — it's development hardware being made for the first (and often only) time, for large OEM aerospace customers with exacting quality and airworthiness standards. You'll own the technical, schedule, and communication threads that keep those projects on track, serving as the connective tissue between engineering, the shop floor, purchasing/vendors, and the customer. It's real ownership over high-stakes aerospace hardware from day one, backed by a tight-knit internal team — quality, purchasing, and engineering are down the hall, not a ticket queue away. Aerodyn is AS9100D & ISO 9001:2015 certified.

What you'll be doing

• Build and manage detailed work instructions for one-time, first-article development hardware builds
• Serve as the customer's primary point of contact — schedules, status updates, and proactive communication throughout each project
• Own the technical details of your projects: reading specs and drawings, and translating customer requirements into a manufacturable, compliant plan
• Provide internal reporting on project status, schedule changes, and cost impacts to leadership on a regular cadence
• Coordinate with purchasing, materials, and outside vendors to keep procurement and subcontract work on schedule
• Support large OEM aerospace customers with strict quality and flight-worthiness requirements, where documentation and precision are non-negotiable
• Manage a portfolio of 10–12 active projects at once, keeping every detail on track across all of them

What we're looking for

Required

• 5+ years of engineering/manufacturing project experience, ideally in aerospace or another regulated, precision-manufacturing environment
• High school diploma
• Strong mechanical aptitude and the ability to develop creative solutions to open-ended problems
• Excellent written, verbal, and technical communication skills
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and self-directed — comfortable managing a demanding, multi-project workload independently

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree
• Prior experience with an ERP system (Epicor or similar)

Pay, benefits and schedule

Benefits include:

• Quarterly bonus incentive plans
• Company-paid contributions to health insurance premiums — over 60% of employees pay $0 for healthcare premiums
• Company-paid life and AD&D insurance
• Company-paid short-term disability
• 401(k) with up to 4% company match
• Voluntary insurance such as dental, vision, and life/disability
• Paid time off

About Aerodyn and apply

Aerodyn Engineering serves the aerospace and defense industries with engineering, instrumentation, manufacturing, testing, and on-site support services from its Indianapolis, IN facility. AS9100D & ISO 9001:2015 certified, Aerodyn builds first-run development hardware for large OEM aerospace customers, most of it made for the first and only time — precision work with no prior run to lean on. The company's culture centers on open, cross-team communication and continuous learning. If you're ready to own real, high-stakes aerospace hardware projects from day one,