Program Manager

Qualifications / Competencies​

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• Bachelor of Business Administration and/or equivalent 5-year work experience in engineering development, project engineering, system engineering or project management.

• MBA Highly desired.

• 4-5 Year work experience in aviation industry highly desired.

• Certification experience highly desired.

• Advanced knowledge of computer and use of software packages (Windows operating system, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint) required. 

• Microsoft Project experience highly desired.

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Key Attributes:

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• Management: Strong team building, and leadership skills required. Close coordination with functional departments, third party suppliers and customers. Must be highly presentable and be able to interact with multiple levels in the organization and with customer organizations on a Business and social level.    

• Communication: Must possess excellent communication skills and must be highly presentable and be able to interact with multiple levels in the organization and customers. Needs to work well with people under pressure including people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Must be outgoing, self-motivated, well organized, and detailed oriented. 

• Problem Solving: Be a creative problem solver and able to resolve conflicts and filter conflicting agendas to determine path forward. 

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DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:

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• Maintain compliance to departmental operating procedures.

• Develop and maintain program plans that identify work scope, schedules, milestones, and program team members. 

• Maintain superb communications between Jetaire and customers by regular follow up status reviews and correspondence.

• Lead the program team by conducting regular team meetings, ensuring that action item logs are maintained, and integrated schedules are available.

• Arrange, attend, and chair program team meetings, reviews, technical coordination meetings and design reviews as required.

• Act as communications focal point to the airline customers, third party suppliers and/or OEM as required.

• Ensure smooth transition to in-service operation by coordinating throughout the program with Jetaire’s Product Support Group.

• Close coordination with Order Administration/Program Administrator to monitor and provide status on customer’s equipment orders and deliveries and overall program status, with third party suppliers, aircraft OEMs and customers to meet overall program requirements.

• Work with Engineering for drawing support, drawing change requirements and respond to those change impacted to parts and schedules.

• Communicate and coordinate spares certification and shipment on assigned programs as needed.

• Identify costs are controlled and reported to management.

• Ability to prioritize daily workload in support of program needs.

• Assist members of functional organizations by providing direction of program activities and issues resolution(s).

• Monitor program schedules commitments and direct appropriate personnel of possible impacts(s) or change(s).

• Coordinate third party suppliers to complete program requirements.

• Demonstrated superb organization and planning ability to handle large complex accounts. Demonstrated excellent ability to articulate and resolve all delegated problems with minimal help from management. Have ability to work out difficult situations/problems with customer to ensure win-win for customer and Jetaire.

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WORKING CONDITIONS:

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• Full-time position (40 hrs).

• Deadline driven duties.

• Travel (30-40%)

• Jetaire associates are required to maintain 100% COVID vaccination status

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Jetaire Flight Systems, LLC  is an industry leader in technical solutions that answer the aviation industry’s complex requirements for safety, endurance and proficiency. As an industry leader in complete avionics and electrical systems solutions, Jetaire provides high reliability electronic and hardware systems support for critical functions where durability and peak performance are vital.

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APPLICANTS WITHOUT THE REQUISITE AVIATION/AEROSPACE EXPERIENCE WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED

Send resume to recruiting@jetairegroup.com or fill out the form below. Phone inquiries will not be accepted.