Program Manager - Aerospace

Program Manager
- Aerospace

HOME OFFICE
- Bentonville, AR 72712

Position Type Full Time Job Shift Day Category Engineering

Game Aerospace is a growing business that designs, manufactures, and sells composite airplanes. Our hand-crafted airplanes are delivered and flown around the world. For more information about the Game Bird and our company, visit our website game.aero.

Game is seeking an Program Manager
- Aerospace to lead the planning, coordination, and execution of aircraft-related projects across engineering, production, quality, supply chain, certification, and company leadership.

This role is ideal for a strong aviation or aerospace project leader who understands how aircraft programs move through design changes, production support, certification activity, and implementation. The right person does not need to be a hands-on design engineer, but must be comfortable working with technical teams, aircraft documentation, project schedules, production priorities, and cross-functional stakeholders.

The Aerospace Program Manager will help keep aircraft programs organized, visible, and moving forward by managing timelines, tracking deliverables, coordinating communication, identifying risks, and driving accountability across teams.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Lead and coordinate aviation/aerospace projects involving engineering, production, quality, supply chain, certification, and leadership stakeholders.
• Manage project schedules, priorities, action items, risks, milestones, and deliverables across multiple active aircraft programs.
• Serve as a central point of coordination between engineering, manufacturing, quality, procurement, flight operations, certification representatives, and senior leadership.
• Track project status, identify risks or delays, and communicate clear updates, decisions, and next steps to leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Support engineering change, production support, and certification-related activity by coordinating reviews, approvals, documentation, implementation plans, and follow-up actions.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Aviation, Aerospace, Engineering, Business, Project Management, Operations, or a related field; equivalent aviation/aerospace program experience may be considered.
• 5+ years of project management, program management, operations coordination, production support, or cross-functional leadership experience in aviation, aerospace, aircraft manufacturing, aircraft modification, defense, or a related technical environment.
• Experience coordinating projects across multiple departments such as engineering, production, quality, supply chain, certification, operations, or leadership.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities, schedules, deadlines, risks, and action items.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders in a fast-paced aircraft production, development, or technical operations environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in general aviation, aircraft manufacturing, aircraft modification, aircraft completions, MRO, defense aviation, or aerospace production.
• Experience supporting FAA certification, airworthiness, compliance documentation, test planning, STC activity, type design changes, or similar regulated aviation programs.
• Familiarity with engineering change processes, configuration management, production support, or aircraft build issue resolution.
• PMP, Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, or other project/program management training or certification.

Personal attributes that support your success:

• High intellectual curiosity, entrepreneurial, creative thinker and problem-solver, fast learner, with demonstrated initiative.
• High level of maturity and ability to work in a team setting or independently.
• Willing to roll up your sleeves to help drive results.
• Unquestionable ethics and personal integrity.

Employee Health

• Medical, Dental, and Vision – plans that include both PPO and High-Deductible HSA options for medical.
• Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Accounts (Health, Limited Purpose, and Dependent Care) to reduce out-of-pocket…