Senior Aerospace Program Manager – Onsite Cincinnati

Quest Defense; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Quest Defense is seeking a Senior Project Management Specialist to provide program planning, execution, coordination, and customer-facing project management support within a complex aerospace engineering environment.

The role partners with engineering leadership, technical teams, program stakeholders, and customer organizations to translate technical activities into clear execution plans, maintain schedules and commitments, facilitate operating rhythms, manage actions and risks, and ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, PM, business, operations, supply chain, or a related discipline. Equivalent relevant professional experience may be considered.
• 5+ years of project or program management experience supporting engineering, aerospace, defense, manufacturing, or similarly complex programs.
• Demonstrated experience managing project schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, actions, and due dates.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary technical or engineering teams.
• Ability to structure incomplete, complex, or evolving information into practical execution plans.
• Ability to work full-time onsite in the Greater Cincinnati area.
• Due to the nature of the work, applicants must be U.S. Citizens.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day project and program management support for aerospace engineering activities.
• Develop, maintain, and manage integrated project schedules, task plans, milestones, dependencies, and commitment dates.
• Translate technical-team inputs, priorities, and constraints into practical execution plans.
• Facilitate recurring program, technical, operating-review, and customer meetings.
• Prepare agendas, presentations, schedules, action registers, decision logs, and other materials for effective meetings.

Skills

Project management

Scheduling

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Tools

Microsoft Project

Smartsheet

Open Plan

Primavera P6

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Quest Defense is seeking a Senior Project Management Specialist to provide program planning, execution, coordination, and customer-facing project management support within a complex aerospace engineering environment.

The role partners with engineering leadership, technical teams, program stakeholders, and customer organizations to translate technical activities into clear execution plans, maintain schedules and commitments, facilitate operating rhythms, manage actions and risks, and ensure