Assistant Program Manager
Company: Recaro Aircraft Seating Americas, Inc.
Location: Fort Worth
Posted on: October 2, 2024
Job Description:
Description:Position Summary: The Assistant Program Manager is
responsible for supporting the Program Manager in coordination of
all activities related to the fulfilment of assigned customer
orders for commercial aircraft passenger seats, from the time a
program is handed over by the Sales department, through
engineering, certification, supply chain and production phases, and
until program closure. The primary focus of the Assistant Program
Manager is to support Program Manager in ensuring complete
satisfaction of assigned customers with the RECARO Aircraft Seating
products and services, maintaining cost, quality and schedule
control, as well as RECARO's quality and design standards. The
Assistant Program Manager has primary responsibility to support the
Program Manager in maintaining a program's on time performance,
quality, cost and weight targets as well as get trained to manage
programs without supervision.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following, other
duties may be assigned:
Support Program Manager in managing program from sales handover to
program closure with complete responsibility over cost, timeline,
scope and quality of the product.
Together with Program Manager, Responsible to maintain overall
program timeline in support of agreed upon due dates.
- Develop full scale project plan in MS Project
- Manage ZACSA
- Manage MS Tracking database updates
- Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support
overall program baseline in collaboration with project team, senior
management, and stakeholders.Together with Program Manager, manage
program scope and access the impact of scope changes
- Responsible for communication with customers and
stakeholders
- Service bulletin coordinationSupport Program Manager in the
responsibility for program documentation
- Program Action Items (both internal and external)
- Program Team Meeting minutes
- Program Checklist
- Program Milestone Meeting documentation including Agenda and
Meeting minutes
- Concessions and commitment letters through OEM product support
processes.Assist Program Manager in managing program teams to
achieve project results:
- Assists with program task and team meetings in an efficient
manner
- Follow up on open items with each individual prior to their due
date
- Agree and maintain OEM submittal requirements and due
dates.
- Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path and
continually manage project expectations with team members and other
stakeholders.
- Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project
team and when not solved in team meetings escalate them to
management board.
- Define priorities within the project and agree on delegation of
tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel with clear
accountability within the program team.
- Supervise all BFE activities, including the timely placement
and receipt of BFE orders, required for CDR, test and HoV
production seats.
- Ensure IFE test equipment is loaded with correct software level
and is functioning properly to test the required system within
contract specifications.Together with Program Manager, Responsible
for overall program performance.
- Primary focal for ITCM, PDR, CDR and other technical
meetings
- Responsible to organize implementation of FAI open items
- Interface with OEM contact and provide regular program progress
reports to ensure complete visibility of program at all times.
- Continuously monitor OEM ratings and negotiate or correct as
required
- Report program difficulties to the program review board and
implement the decisions from review board.
- Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the
project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem
areas.Adhere Department processes and procedures
- Participate in team and PMO meetings to support process
upgrades or develop new processes/ procedures
- Adhere to program management guidelines and standards for
project execution.
- Prepare project audits and implement risk analysis using RECARO
standards and tools.
- Conduct project postmortems and create a recommendations report
in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements
(as part of lessons learned practice)
Requirements:Education/Experience:
- Minimum of a Bachelor's degree is required. A degree in
Business, Mechanical, Aerospace or Electrical Engineering is
desired.
- Strong, proven customer relations skills are required.
- The position requires a high level understanding of engineering
concepts and FAA certification procedures for commercial aircraft
seats
- Must possess strong negotiation skills and the ability to
positively influence customer decisions, while maintaining a high
level of customer satisfaction.
- Proven track record of meeting commitments.
- Strong problem solving skills with the ability to exercise
mature judgment are required.
- Ability to multi-task and operate in a fast-paced, high
pressure environment. Excellent organization skills are
essential.
- Must have excellent internal and external communication and
presentation skills.
- Ability to take initiative and work with minimum
supervision.
- Multicultural background is a plus.Travel
Requirements:Employees are expected to travel up to 25% of the time
both National and International may be required.
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Keywords: Recaro Aircraft Seating Americas, Inc., Denton , Assistant Program Manager, Executive , Fort Worth, Texas
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