Senior Project Management Specialist

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Leads, develops, coordinates, integrates, analyzes, and maintains integrated plans and schedules for complex projects, programs and change driven activities in accordance with project management industry standards.
• Leads studies/analysis (trend, variance, impact), reports, risk assessments and planning efforts to determine impacts, constraints involving product development, production rates, process improvement, and program initiatives.
• Identifies risk and opportunity potential, develops mitigation planning and refines the business case.
• Develops and establishes lead time requirements.
• Facilitates and ensures integration of project/program plan, schedules, change and baseline management, processes, techniques considered to be best practice across the industry.
• Acts as primary project contact to establish key stakeholder requirements and project objectives.
• Directs all phases of projects or subsystems of major projects from inception through completion.
• Coordinates commitments with internal and external stakeholders to fulfill strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics).
• More than 3 years of experience working with space hardware.
• More than 3 years of experience working in ambiguous and fast changing environments.

Nice to Have

• Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering.
• Experience in a leadership role, leading teams or projects to successful completion.
• Experience as a CAM (cost account manager) using EVM (earned value management).
• Experience managing projects and utilizing standard project management tools.

Qualifications

• Education/experience typically acquired through advanced education (e.g., Bachelor) and 10 or more years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience (e.g., Master+8 years' related work experience, 14 years' related work experience).

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.
• Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts.
• Retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs.
• Paid and unpaid time off programs.