Senior Hardware Technical Project Manager

The Senior Hardware Technical Project Manager is responsible for the planning and execution of new avionics LRUs developed internally at the company or outsourced to a supplier. This role owns the project schedule, milestones, dependencies, risks, blockers, defects, and action items across hardware, software, prototype builds, qualification, certification, and release readiness. The Senior Technical Project Manager collaborates with cross-functional project teams from engineering, operations, and quality to define the project plan, milestones, project risks, and leads the execution effort to effectively and efficiently deliver projects according to plan.

The role requires deep hardware technical understanding and the leadership ability to influence cross-functional team members so they improve execution, meet commitments, and protect critical path dates and product quality. This position works with internal stakeholders and external subcontract management to foster an open communication while implementing project-based processes to bring increased efficiency in the delivery of all projects.

The Senior Hardware Technical Project Manager is responsible for the planning and execution of new avionics LRUs developed internally at the company or outsourced to a supplier. This role owns the project schedule, milestones, dependencies, risks, blockers, defects, and action items across hardware, software, prototype builds, qualification, certification, and release readiness. The Senior Technical Project Manager collaborates with cross-functional project teams from engineering, operations, and quality to define the project plan, milestones, project risks, and leads the execution effort to effectively and efficiently deliver projects according to plan.

The role requires deep hardware technical understanding and the leadership ability to influence cross-functional team members so they improve execution, meet commitments, and protect critical path dates and product quality. This position works with internal stakeholders and external subcontract management to foster an open communication while implementing project-based processes to bring increased efficiency in the delivery of all projects.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project plan, milestones, risks, hardware demand, Hardware Kanban board, and document tree
• Own schedule, milestones, dependencies, risks, blockers, defects, and action items for assigned hardware programs
• Lead hardware checkpoints and proactively drive readiness reviews, issue reviews, dependency reviews, and action-item closure
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to drive the required corrective actions to execute the project to the plan
• Drive defect visibility, prioritization, ownership, containment, corrective actions, and closure in partnership with engineering, software, quality, and test teams
• Work with internal stakeholders and supplier management to foster an open communication channel to drive the project execution to the plan
• Track and report project status, risks, and drawing tree status on a regular basis
• Provide recovery plans when critical path dates, major milestones, defect closure, or product quality are at risk
• Facilitate internal design reviews, prototype and production unit tear-down sessions, hardware design refinement sessions, and hardware Kanban review sessions
• Manage prototype build readiness, including hardware availability, software/firmware readiness, test readiness, build issues. Coordinate with engineering and buyers to get the prototype units built
• Define the SOW, develop T&Cs, and negotiation strategy for non-recurring and recurring costs for all buy LRUs, and lead the negotiation…