Engineering Project Manager - EPM

Job Summary:

Planning organizing and directing Galley Insert Product Development & Qualification projects. Making sure projects are on time on budget Commercial Aircraft Inserts Herborn Germany by direct reporting to Technical Manager and indirect reporting to Engineering VP.

Summary Of Duties

• Gather all consistent input from customers to initiate the development logic
• Identify development logic key parameters
• Identify potential project margins
• Set the main development milestones and justify choices
• Determine key resources (material & human)
• Depending on the development test to be performed define the levels of representativeness of the system (specifications and pass/fail criteria) or its constituents

Project structuration

• Define and maintain the various project structures (e.g. PBS WBS OBS…)
• Define NRC RC and DMC (direct maintenance costs) estimation cycle and estimate them before project kickoff
• Develop and maintain the project schedule

Manage Manpower capacity and skills

• Express and manage workload needs & skills (associated hypothesis make or buy strategy load/capacity arbitration process)

Project/workpackage execution & performance

• Prepares presentations and leads development reviews (engineering industrialization service) for the given work package and/or product
• Monitors and communicates project/workpackage schedule KPIs and assertions
• Coordinates with internal/external teams/customers as well as suppliers to ensure critical issues are addressed in a timely fashion
• Provide technical expertise for technical choices and coaching during project milestone meetings such as MERs IDRs and Customer reviews to ensure objectives are met and work is accomplished efficiently
• Manage the timeless of actions treatment issued from recommendations linked to critical and major issues from technical design reviews
• Works closely and constructively with all other functions and internal/external customers to gain consensus on the best strategy to accomplish project goals
• Prepare summary reports for internal management and customer
• Manage risks and opportunities
• Setup tasks forces to review to resolve issues
• Implement rituals & visual management technics to track efficiently project progress on economical technical and planning aspects to secure project achievements
• Asses project progress thanks to earned value management (combines scope schedule and costs)
• Manage project reserves
• Monitor DMC/NRC/RC (as well as other project KPIs) status and track associated change approval process
• Manage compliance of our responses to customer specifications
• Manage milestones
• Manage project change management (change request change decision change implementation file and new baselines)
• Manage and lead the project Team
• Take part in program Team meetings and provide support to program when dealing with the customer and authorities
• Contribute to the preparation of proposals
• Drive onquality delivery of the product by monitoring key project deliverables as well as by ensuring key quality centric deliverables/steps are done/followed (functional analysis DFMEA PFMEA PPAP design review)

Project/workpackage closure

• Prepare and manage project closure (organize the teams ramps down take the benefits of all experiences captured during the project e.g. lessons learned/RETEX close properly the activities documents referential budgets and archive project sources and environment)

Continuous improvement

• Champions continuous improvement of product design as well as ways of working
• Actively contributes to problem solving
• Lead project QRQC

Technical skills

• Proven ability to read and interpret engineering drawings
• Good knowledge of testing and certification requirements for common aerospace components and materials
• Is familiar with the company’s business lines
• Understand the special technical features of the product and can discuss them with the customer’s engineering counterpart

Project organization

• Good knowledge of common project management processes methodologies and tools
• Effective time management
• Is able to define/organize/lead a project
• Familiar with projects including an international dimension and subcontracting
• Good problemsolving skills (ability to define problems collect data establish facts and draw valid conclusions)

Managing deadlines and resources

• Good establishing and managing schedules
• Managing workload/capacity
• Deadline/workload dashboard

Managing costs

• Is familiar with the financial process and its rules/financial reference system
• Is able to implement Earned Value Management
• Is able to implement the management elements for recurring project costs (RC NRC…)

Managing risks and opportunities

• Familiar with managing risks and opportunities
• Able to coordinate an action plan for controlling risks and opportunities
• Familiar with designtovalue approaches
• Knowledgeable of legal risks (IP airworthiness rules contracts…)

Managing change

• Ability to develop implement and monitor corrective action plans
• Ability to drive consensus to a balanced decision

Crossfunctional management

• Good organization and communication skills
• Ability to work well independently and crossfunctionally
• Ability to motivate team efforts to accomplish goals

Crosscultural management

• Takes into account into his behaviour and communication/management specificities associated with the culture of his/her stakeholders

Computer Skills

• Working knowledge of Project Management Tools (e.g. Microsoft Project ETM…)
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word Excel PowerPoint)

Preferred Skills

• (PMP certification)
• Experience working aircraft OEM and/or strong engineering foundation in one or more disciplines such as electrical thermal electromechanical materials structural aerospace and chemical fields.