Project Manager - Turbojet Engineering

Imagine this - you are driving the development of advanced turbojet engines from early concept through testing, qualification, and production. As Project Manager - Turbojet Engineering, you will bring structure, pace, and accountability to complex propulsion programs, ensuring engineering, manufacturing, suppliers, and stakeholders stay aligned around the same objectives.

You will own project planning and execution across multiple turbojet development programs, managing schedules, budgets, resources, risks, milestones, and deliverables. You will work closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams without needing to be the technical expert in the room. Your role is to understand the engineering context, anticipate challenges, remove roadblocks, and keep programs moving.

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• Lead turbojet engine development projects from concept through design, manufacturing, testing, qualification, and production
• Build and maintain project schedules, budgets, resource plans, milestones, risk registers, and delivery plans
• Coordinate multidisciplinary engineering teams and ensure priorities, dependencies, and deliverables remain aligned
• Track project progress, identify risks and bottlenecks early, and drive actions through to resolution
• Organize project meetings, technical reviews, and customer reviews while ensuring decisions and actions are clearly documented and followed through
• Manage customer communication, project reporting, contractual deliverables, and key program milestones
• Coordinate suppliers and external partners to secure the timely delivery of hardware, services, and technical documentation
• Monitor project costs, resources, KPIs, and overall program performance and provide clear updates to management
• Support the transition of propulsion systems from development into qualification, production, and customer delivery
• Connect engineering, manufacturing, procurement, quality, and testing teams to keep execution moving at pace