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

Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.

GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 32 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.6bn in 2025. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job Summary

We are seeking an early career Technology Project Manager to support the planning, coordination, and successful delivery of technology-focused projects. This role is ideal for an early-career professional who is organized, technically curious, comfortable working with multiple stakeholders, and interested in developing a career in technology project management.

The Technology Project Manager will work alongside Research and Development technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and project leaders to coordinate activities, track milestones, manage project documentation, identify risks, and help ensure projects are delivered according to agreed scope, schedule, and objectives.

Job 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

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a 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.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen due to U.S. export control regulations and the need to access information subject to ITAR requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid project-management methodologies.
• Basic understanding of one or more technology areas such as Metal Additive Manufacturing, Robotics, AI, and automation.
• Familiar with managing U.S. Government technical contracts.
• Interest in Additive Manufacturing, automation, and robotics manufacturing technology and a willingness to learn new platforms, systems, and technical concepts.

We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?

A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working

Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.

We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.

We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.