Summary/Objective
The Project Manager has ultimate authority and responsibility for overall success of projects and project execution to achieve on-time, on-budget results. The Project Manager leads small, medium, and large high-tech projects with varying levels of risk and scope complexity. The person in this role is a key component of fostering relationships and securing new business opportunities with customers, strategic technology development partners, consultants, and subcontractors.
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Work collaboratively with Lead Engineer ensuring a balance of meeting or exceeding customer expectations and requirements while achieving the project budget, schedule and risk tolerance
- Develop detailed project plans for hardware product development through various states of design maturity and product life cycles
- Facilitate resource utilization across multiple technical and organizational disciplines
- Project Team Leadership including generating and updating work plans, schedules, tasks, and status
- Manage project scope, identifying and properly addressing deviations
- Risk identification, management, and issue tracking / closure
- Ensure quality system requirements are met
- Day-to-day customer relationship, general customer satisfaction, meeting contractual obligations
- Coordinate contract review activities between customer, Roccor, and sub-contractors to ensure activities are completed in a timely fashion
- Generate and keep updated all necessary reports and presentations to communicate project status, obtain necessary support, and maintain accountability
Required Competencies
- Decision Making: Autonomously facilitates the decision-making process to progress actions and tasks towards meeting aggressive milestones, deliverables and cost targets
- Technical Knowledge: Experience with programmatic, quality, and technical space flight hardware development requirements
- Hardware Development: Experienced with various mechanical and electrical product design, prototyping, testing, and manufacturing processes
- Communication: Capable of facilitating verbal and written communication with all levels of a small business organization. Able to clearly present and facilitate complex interactions demanded by hardware development
- Program Management Tools: Advanced experience with Microsoft project management and collaboration tools. Open to learning and bringing new tools to an organization to track and communicate project plans, status, and action item closure
- Subcontractor Management: Capable of managing complex projects requiring coordination with major subcontractors, technical contractors, and strategic partners. Generates contract requirements and task orders for supporting business relationships
Preferred Competencies
- Spacecraft Integration: Preferred candidates have experience successfully managing a spacecraft integration project through the processes of design, qualification, assembly and test, launch integration and support, and in-orbit operations
- Certifications: Achieved Project Management Professional certification is a plus
- Continuous Improvement: Thrive on finding new and exciting ways to improve project management tools and processes to increase efficiency across organizations and multiple projects
- Multi-tasking: Ability to maintain focus on key project objectives with multiple demands from internal and external customers
Work Authorization/Security Clearance
- US Citizen or US Permanent Resident required
- Security Clearance a plus
Work Environment
Roccor is a highly creative, agile and fast-paced aerospace and military products company. Established in 2011, it has achieved robust growth over the past several years and has established itself as an industry leader in deployable structure and thermal management products for the small satellite and terrestrial military markets. Roccor is a 100% employee-owned company that prides itself on the values of respect, accountability, excellence and continuous improvement. Roccor provides a highly competitive compensation package including retirement contributions and health benefits (among others) along with participation in the Companyâs Stock Option and Gainsharing Plans. Roccor is located along the beautiful front range of the Rocky Mountains in Longmont, CO in Boulder County, an area consistently recognized as one of the best places to live in America with a highly rated quality of life, exceptional educational standards, and a booming aerospace economy.
This job operates in a professional but casual office environment with an open floor plan in which teams are generally co-located for efficient and effective communication and collaboration of projects.
Roccor is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation or protected veteran status.
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