Project Manager

Safran S.A.; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 105,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Safran S.A. seeks a Project Manager to lead multiple transfer of work, engineering, and industrialization projects in a cross-functional team across departments.

You will ensure technical process compliance, schedule adherence, and manage non-recurring and recurring costs to achieve milestones. The role requires coordinating engineers and business partners, communicating with upper management, and driving issues to resolution while maintaining project governance and airworthiness requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution with working experience in industrial settings.
• Outstanding skills in the Microsoft Office suite.
• PMP or other internationally recognize project management certification.
• Proficient with AutoCAD or similar drafting software.
• Manufacturing experience and/or Lean Six Sigma working experience.

Responsibilities

• Effective project communication to engineering team, management, program management, and customers (technical and business aspects).
• Organize and lead technical decision-making process within projects, ensuring compatibility with objectives.
• Estimation, planning, coordination, and tracking of project work (plan vs. work delivered).
• Ensure adherence to the Safran method and standards for project management process.
• Identify resource requirements and maintain the project plan in line with assigned resources.
• Ensure projects are delivered to financial targets for Non-Recurring Costs (NRC).
• Build business cases, ROI, and project value estimated reports.
• Ensure that technical decisions are coherent with the Recurring Costs (RC) targets.
• Deliver project milestones on time.
• Manage technical risks (identification, quotation, mitigation, escalation).
• Provide KPI's to monitor project performance.

Skills

Microsoft Office

Lean Six Sigma

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Settings

PMP or equivalent certification

Tools

AutoCAD

Job description

Summary

The Project Manager leads multiple transfer of work, engineering, and industrialization projects. It is responsible for technical process compliance, schedule, non-recurring costs, manage technical risks, and adherence to project milestones.

This role will lead a cross-functional project team of engineers and business partners across several different departments, prioritizing and communicating issues to the different stakeholders including upper management and coordinating functions.

This position is expected to manage multiple concurrent project, tasks, and group of activities.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Effective project communication to engineering team, engineering management, program management, and customers (technical and business aspects).


• Organize and lead technical decision-making process within projects, ensuring that technical decisions made in the project are compatible with Program/Project objectives.


• Estimation, planning, coordination, and tracking of project work (plan vs. work delivered)


• Ensure the adherence to the Safran method and standards for project management process


• Identify resource requirements and maintain the project plan in line with assigned resources


• Ensure projects are delivered to financial targets for Non-Recurring Costs (NRC).


• Build business cases, ROI, and project value estimated reports


• Ensure that technical decisions are coherent with the Recurring Costs (RC) targets


• Ensure project deliverables are delivered to the agreed timescale


• Manage technical risks (identification, quotation, mitigation, escalation)


• Provide necessary KPI's to the different business partners to monitor the performance of each project under his/her supervision


• Ensure compliance with Airworthiness requirements


• Deliver definition of and adherence to project milestones, both external and internal


• Manage the system configuration at program level and with customers


• Request technical audits when necessary


• Ensure project considers Design to Industrialization and Manufacturability


• Acts as project liaison with the different stakeholders and responsible for identifying, tracking, and resolving all technical issues as they arise.


• Must be capable of working with little or no supervision, and brief other company departments/disciplines on product details and project status.


• Other duties outside of this summary may be assigned as required by the hierarchical manager or assigned manager/sponsor.


• Regular, predictable attendance is required.


• Travel: up to 25% possible, depending on project requirements

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. This job posting does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution with working experience in industrial settings.


• Outstanding skills in the Microsoft Office suite.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP or other equivalent internationally recognize project management certification


• Proficient with Autocad or similar drafting software.


• Manufacturing experience and/or Lean Six Sigma working experience.

This position requires access to technologies and hardware subject to US national security based export control requirements. All applicants must be US Persons (8 USC 1324b(a)(3)), or otherwise authorized by the U.S. Government. No company sponsorship will be offered.