Senior Technical Project Manager

Overview

Element Los Angeles has an opportunity for a Senior Technical Project Manager at our Duarte CA composites non-metallic material test laboratory. We are seeking a technically grounded individual to lead complex aerospace material-qualification design-allowables and certification-support programs.

Partnering with customers engineering laboratory operations quality and commercial teams this role is the liaison between the laboratory and the customer to execute customer test plans into within the lab workflows while owning schedule resources risk customer communication and project successes and failures.

Projects may involve multiple material batches conditioning environments subcontractors and up to 10000 specimens. The successful candidate will combine technical knowledge of composite materials testing with disciplined customer management customer communication project leadership and cross-functional execution.

Salary: $90000- $130000/yr DOE

Responsibilities

Customer leadership: Serve as the primary project contact; lead weekly status reviews communicate technical and schedule issues and risks manage expectations and scope changes and coordinate customer witness activities.
Project ownership: Lead projects from contract review and kickoff through planning scheduling work instruction creation specimen organization specimen preparation conditioning testing data review reporting invoicing and closeout. Projects can involve up to 10000 samples requiring strong organization and traceability. Highly complex projects will need to be simplified for laboratory execution.
Schedule and financial control: Develop and maintain project schedules and integrated master schedules (IMS) milestones forecasts budgets change impacts and recovery plans.
FAA program coordination: Coordinate approved FAA certification-program activities with customers authorized FAA representatives or designees and internal quality and technical personnel including test-plan interfaces conformity readiness witness points data packages and final reporting.
Technical translation: Interpret statements of work test plans ASTM and ISO methods CMH-17 guidance customer specifications and customer instructions to develop executable laboratory plans.
Resources and risk: Determine staffing equipment fixtures instrumentation suppliers and procurement needs; manage capacity constraints project risks mitigations contingencies and escalation.
Quality and compliance: Execute projects within current controlled requirements including ISO/IEC 17025 Nadcap applicable FAA requirements customer approvals configuration control calibration status measurement traceability data integrity and nonconformance processes.
Team development: No direct report responsibilities. Lead by influencing and mentoring engineers and project managers in communication customer service meeting leadership status reporting scheduling budgeting risk management escalation and customer management.

Skills / Qualifications

Education: Bachelors degree in engineering materials science aerospace chemistry physics or a related technical field.
Experience: Seven or more years in technical project management aerospace testing material qualification composite materials or laboratory operations.
Customer Service: Clear and concise communication expectation management able to manage and de-escalate situations.
Technical knowledge: Working knowledge of polymer matrix composites ceramic matric composites plastics specimen machining and preparation environmental conditioning mechanical testing instrumentation calibration data acquisition and technical reporting.
Project leadership: Demonstrated ownership of complex schedules budgets forecasts risks resources customer commitments and cross-functional execution; strong written verbal facilitation and customer-management skills.
Systems and compliance: Experience with project scheduling tools LIMS or ERP systems Microsoft Office ISO/IEC 17025 Nadcap and aerospace specifications.

Preferred Qualifications
Masters degree in a technical field.
PMP or comparable project-management certification.
Proven experience with composite material qualification design-allowable programs.
Experience supporting FAA certification testing conformity readiness or customer-witness activities.
Familiarity with CMH-17 and aerospace composite test methods (ASTM ISO etc.)

Company Overview

Element is one of the fastest growing testing inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to Make tomorrow safer than today.

When failure in use is not an option we help customers make certain that their products materials processes and services are safe compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D through complex regulatory approvals and into production our global laboratory network of scientists engineers and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality sustainable outcomes and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

Diversity Statement

At Element we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming the worlds most trusted testing partner.

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age disability ethnic origin gender marital status race religion responsibility of dependents sexual orientation or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.

Required Experience:

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