Aerospace Project Manager - Vaco, LLC
Irvine, CA 92602
About the Job
Location: North-West Irvine Area, California (Please note, exact job location will be provided to shortlisted candidates.)
The client is interested in local candidates. Please note, this position is 100 percent onsite. This is not a hybrid or a remote position.
Salary Range: 125,000-150,000/Year+10% bonus
Summary of Position:
Vaco Staffing is performing a search on a Project Manager for a highly reputable aircraft manufacturing organization. The Project Manager is responsible for overseeing a portfolio of capital equipment projects aimed at manufacturing components for the aerospace industry. This includes the design, build, and installation of various manufacturing tools and assembly lines. The role demands strong coordination of performance, cost, and schedule to adhere to contractual commitments.
Essential Functions:
- Project Coordination: Manage project aspects including timeline, budget, and scope. Maintain constant communication with teams to ensure project milestones are met and adjust plans in response to technical changes or customer requests.
- Customer Relations: Establish and maintain strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders. Manage communications effectively to ensure trust and confidence with all project participants.
- Risk Management: Identify potential risks and opportunities, creating strategies to mitigate or capitalize on them, respectively.
- Change Control: Handle scope changes efficiently, ensuring all changes are documented, approved, and incorporated into the project plan without disrupting the agreed objectives.
- Leadership: Lead project teams in a matrix organization setting. Encourage effective communication, accountability, and collaboration among team members.
- Educational Background: Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or demonstrated experience in Mechanical/Manufacturing Engineering & Design
- Minimum 5 years in a project management role within Engineering, Construction, Mechanical/Manufacturing Engineering, Aerospace, and/or related verticals.
- Cost Management, Schedule Management, Scope Management, Risk Management are all must-haves.
- Excellent communication skills, displays proactive, organized, analytical, accountability, negotiation, willingness to learn, grow and be highly adaptable.
- The ability to obtain a security clearance is a must-have.
- Strong skills with Excel and proficiency with Word, PowerPoint, etc. are a must-have.
- Experience with an ERP system for the management of sales orders, purchase orders and project plans are a nice-to-have.
- (PMP) Project Management certification is a nice-to-have.
- Familiarity with aerospace design and production assembly is a nice-to-have.
- Composite Molding, tooling, production, and materials experience with parts/systems is a nice-to-have.
- AS9100 familiarity when it comes to standards for quality management is a nice-to-have.
- Experience managing contracts, PO, shipping, payment terms, etc. is a nice-to-have.
Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
EEO Notice
Vaco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .
Vaco also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.
By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.
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Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.
