Role OverviewThe Senior Program Manager is responsible for leading and coordinating cross-functional initiatives that directly impact engine throughput, material availability, and internal capability expansion for the LM2500 platform. This role provides dedicated project leadership across engineering, supply chain, operations, and external partners to ensure repair development programs, material readiness efforts, and new production capabilities are executed on time and at scale.
What You Will Do
Coordinate new repairs and process enhancements with internal and external teams, establish timelines, deliverables, and alignment to expedite repair qualification and release, track progress, risks, and resource constraints, prioritize material characterization and reverse-engineering efforts with engineering, drive local fabrication solutions, ensuring timely qualification and production readiness, support supplier development and coordination with fabrication vendors, manage insourcing key repair and manufacturing capabilities to enhance schedule control and reduce costs, validate processes, equipment, and technical readiness with engineering and operations, oversee equipment commissioning, installation, validation, and certification, coordinate ERP improvement projects affecting material flow, work order configuration, and planning accuracy, establish and maintain time standards with Industrial Engineering for accurate capacity planning and forecasting, ensure configuration management updates are integrated across systems.
Why It Might Be a Fit
8+ years of progressive experience in project or program management within aerospace, gas turbine MRO, manufacturing, or industrial operations environments, demonstrated experience leading cross-functional technical programs involving engineering, supply chain, quality, and operations, proven ability to manage repair development, NPI, or process qualification initiatives from concept through production readiness, strong working knowledge of manufacturing processes, materials qualification, and repair development workflows, experience coordinating capital equipment projects, including installation, commissioning, and process validation, ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and technical documentation to anticipate operational and schedule impacts, strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder-management skills in a matrixed environment, proficiency in project scheduling, risk management, and execution tracking across multiple concurrent initiatives, familiarity with ERP systems, configuration management, and capacity planning processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Manufacturing, or a related technical discipline
- 8+ years of progressive experience in project or program management within aerospace, gas turbine MRO, manufacturing, or industrial operations environments
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional technical programs involving engineering, supply chain, quality, and operations
- Proven ability to manage repair development, NPI, or process qualification initiatives from concept through production readiness
- Strong working knowledge of manufacturing processes, materials qualification, and repair development workflows
- Experience coordinating capital equipment projects, including installation, commissioning, and process validation
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, and technical documentation to anticipate operational and schedule impacts
- Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder-management skills in a matrixed environment
- Proficiency in project scheduling, risk management, and execution tracking across multiple concurrent initiatives
- Familiarity with ERP systems, configuration management, and capacity planning processes
Benefits
- Comprehensive and flexible benefit options
- Medical, dental, vision, EAP, wellness incentives, and 401(k) with employer matching
- Paid time off, including vacation, sick time, paid holidays, and parental leave
- Competitive pay, including eligibility for quarterly and annual bonuses
- Eligibility for individual benefit plans may vary based on employment status
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