Position Description:

Title: Program manager

Status: Full Time

Department: Programs Teams

Summary:

The Program Manager is a highly visible position, responsible for providing assistance and direction to Sales, Finance, Technical, Asset Management and Asset Trading functions, managing activities on assigned major programs and projects including projections, proposals, project team leadership, negotiations, and customer support from contract award through product delivery. This position holds substantial autonomy and latitude to identify and solve problems within an assigned program.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities included, but not limited to:

• Function as the Primary Point of Contact for all Program activities
• Provide project planning, technical & operational leadership, and coordination for assigned business program/s to cross-functional teams such as Sales, Operations, and Finance
• Identify and provide support for sales and new business opportunities within assigned program, including inventory analysis, spanet value, and sales strategies related to the applicable assets
• Control and manage schedule, cost, contracts, customers, and risk for assigned programs by utilizing schedules, reports, action items, and team meetings as appropriate
• Maintain internal processes to review and track program activities and costs, including third-party services, with the goal of reducing overall cost and schedule flow time and report as necessary to the customer
• Provide feedback to management to demonstrate the effects and probable results of various plans and proposals and conduct post-project evaluations on the effect of decisions to reduce future risks and enhance future outcomes
• Team leadership
• Project management
• Professional communication while engaging with people at all organizational levels to influence performance and change, with a solutions-oriented approach
• Using data and analysis to drive decision making
• Have worked with the Quantum ERP system
• Have technical aviation experience
• Have experience with introduction and disposal of aircraft
• Have experience working with outside investors and consignors to perform mutually agreeable asset evaluations

Education & Experience:

• A bachelor’s degree, diploma or equivalent, or FAA Airframe & Powerplant license, or equivalent field experience suited to this role
• 5+ years of aviation-related technical Program/Project management experience
• 5+ years program management with end-to-end process development and improvement experience
• Working knowledge of FAA regulations, ATA standards, and EASA regulations
• High self-motivation and ability to work to deadlines while managing multiple tasks and conflicting priorities
• Strong proficiency with MS Office, particularly Excel, and general office technology