Title:  Sr. Specialist, Project Management

Job Title: Sr. Specialist, Project Management

Job ID: 30583

Job Location: Greenville, Texas; On-site

Job Schedule: 9/80 Reg, off every other Friday, 1st shift

Job Description:

Senior professional with strong knowledge of job area and broad knowledge of project management. Manages complex projects or processes with general oversight. Communicates within and outside of own function to gain cooperation on operational processes, practices, and procedures. Makes moderate to substantial improvements to systems and processes. Contributes to achievement of departmental goals and operating plans with direct impact on the departmental results.

Essential Functions:

• Manage the material budget for assigned program. Provide accurate material forecast. Assists in providing comprehensive business analysis of program material requirements and manage impact to program EAC's for all material related actions.
• Work collaboratively with Program Office and Functional Management, as well as other stakeholders, to define and assign task requirements; estimate and establish budget and schedules; determine appropriate performance metrics; clarify priorities; and develop and implement specific management plans to support the program.
• Interact with Engineering / Engineering design reviews, Planning, Procurement and Manufacturing personnel to ensure appropriate drawings are released and program schedules are achieved.
• Assists in reviewing proposals & Statements of Work (SOW) to establish status metrics and reporting methods that assists with Make buy decisions, follows up on open purchase orders, verifies delivery, participates in resolving supplier issues, approves payment, and maintains necessary records of material movement throughout manufacturing and inventory cycle(s).
• Utilize program management tools to monitor and report program performance to objectives (including budget, schedule, and other management requirements), and facilitate project coordination and decision-making.
• Lead/participate in Monthly Customer meetings to assure successful results for in house and Vendor repair items and drive non-value added costs out of the program.
• Provide proposal support to include estimating the scope of MPM labor and material efforts.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.
• Active DoD Secret clearance required or prior held clearance.
• Requires strong knowledge of job area. Typically viewed as having a specialty within discipline. May have broad knowledge of project management
• Recent experience in Commercial and Military Aviation/Aerospace products development and production is highly desired.
• Knowledge of manpower planning, milestone scheduling, PM tools, and related financial management.
• Capable of managing and working in an environment that is fast paced, demanding, with a focus on problem resolution and process improvement.
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office products to include, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Project.
• Extensive experience with SAP and material processes strongly preferred.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Any Mfg, business Ops or Finance experience, experience of repair and sparing processes
• Strong project management skills, outstanding communication (both verbally and written), negotiation, organizational, and leadership skills.
• Proven team player with outstanding customer relationship skills.
• Must have high attention to detail.