Head of Programme Management

Position Summary: The Program Manager I is responsible for the coordination of all activities related to the fulfillment of assigned customer orders for commercial aircraft passenger seats, from the time a program is handed over by the Sales department, through development, certification, supply chain and production, and until program closure. The primary focus of the Program Manager I is to ensure complete satisfaction of assigned customers with the RECARO Aircraft Seating products and services, maintaining cost, quality and schedule control, as well as RECAROs quality and design standards. The Program Manager I has primary responsibility to maintain program on time performance, quality, cost and weight targets.
Manage program from sales handover to program closure with complete responsibility over cost, timeline, scope and quality of the product.
Develop full scale project plan in MS Project
Manage ZACSA
Manage MS Tracking database updates
Negotiate due date changes with OEM and customers
Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support overall program baseline in collaboration with project team, senior management and stakeholders.
Manage program scope and access the impact of scope changes
Responsible for communication with customers and stakeholders
Manage Master Change Proposals
Manage Program budget and coordinate budget changes as necessary
Responsible to manage program team to achieve project results:
Manage customer changes in close coordination with all impacted team members.
Estimate resources and participants required achieve project goals. 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 per the escalation process.
Define priorities within the project and agree on delegation of tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel with clear accountability within the program team.
Ensure IFE test equipment is loaded with correct software level and is functioning properly to test the required system within contract specifications.
Responsible for overall program performance
Responsible to organize implementation of FAI open items
Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas.
Actively participate in team and PMO meetings to support process upgrades or develop new processes/ procedures
Develop and 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)
Minimum of a Bachelors degree is required. A degree Mechanical, Aerospace or Electrical Engineering is desired with a minimum of 3 years experience in a Program Management role.
Strong, proven customer relations skills are required.
The position requires a basic 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.
Ability to take initiative and work with minimum supervision.
Travel Requirements:
Employees are expected to travel up to 25% of the time both National and International may be required.