Senior Technical Project Manager

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The Senior Technical Project Manager (STPM) leads complex robotics, automation, and advanced aerospace tooling programs from concept through deployment. This role sits at the intersection of systems engineering, program execution, and customer delivery, ensuring successful integration of high‑value capital equipment, including robotics, precision tooling, motion systems, and automated assembly technologies, into aircraft production environments. The STPM owns scope, schedule, cost, risk, and technical integration, coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams while serving as the primary interface to Airbus internal stakeholders, suppliers, and customer production sites.

• Financial Rewards:
  Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”).
• Work/Life Balance:
  Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program.
• Health & Welfare:
  Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages.
• Individual Development:
  Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programs and both national and international mobility.

Salary range: $160,000-$188,000 based on candidate profile

• Program Leadership & Execution Lead end‑to‑end delivery of robotics and automated tooling programs from requirements definition through CISS, CIPS, and production deployment.
• Build and maintain Integrated Master Schedules (IMS), resource plans, and program budgets.
• Drive cross‑functional execution across mechanical design, controls, software, systems, manufacturing, and supply chain.
• Facilitate structured engineering milestones including PDR, CDR, FDR risk reviews, and readiness gates.
• Ensure compliance with Airbus quality, safety, documentation, and configuration management standards.

• Translate customer and production requirements into clear, actionable technical scopes.
• Coordinate system architecture decisions across robotics, motion control, vision, tooling, and factory integration.
• Track technical risks, mitigation strategies, and validation plans.
• Partner with systems engineering and controls/software leads to manage interface definitions and performance validation.
• Support V&V planning including simulation, offline programming, CISS, CIPS, and production ramp‑up.

• Serve as the primary program interface to Airbus internal customers, external partners, and suppliers.
• Lead program reviews, status reporting, and executive‑level updates.
• Manage scope changes, contract deliverables, and commercial impacts in coordination with program leadership.
• Support onsite installation, commissioning, and production readiness activities.

• Track program financials including budget, earned value, and forecast accuracy.
• Man…