Senior Project Manager

Job Description
The Senior Project Manager role involves overseeing projects from initial concept through to successful completion, ensuring every stage is handled efficiently and effectively. This includes fostering and maintaining strong client relationships throughout the project lifecycle, collaborating with technical teams, and creating detailed project proposals. The position also entails evaluating team performance, managing project budgets and timelines, and delivering consistent updates to stakeholders. Ideal candidates will have a proven history of project management success and the ability to navigate and lead initiatives in a dynamic, fast-paced setting.

Project Management

• Develop, maintain, and oversee project scope, schedule, and budget, ensuring projects remain on track, within budget, and that they meet all requirements.
  Provide regular, detailed reporting on project status to the project team, key stakeholders, and executive leadership, ensuring complete transparency and accountability.
• Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate scope creep, ensuring project boundaries are clearly defined and adhered to, while effectively managing change requests.
• Capture and document lessons learned throughout the project life cycle, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing within the project management function.
• Actively and collaboratively manages projects, working with both internal and external team members and stakeholders to drive desired outcomes.
• Follows company-defined project management processes and best practices.
• Establish and maintain strong, long-term relationships with customers, ensuring their requirements are consistently met and their expectations exceeded.
• Support comprehensive, high-impact project proposals with detailed input from technical and financial stakeholders, ensuring documentation is thorough, compelling, and strategically aligned.
• Oversee relationships with external suppliers, working with Contracts to create statements of work, negotiate contractual requirements, and ensure supplier performance aligns with project goals.
• As needed, support leadership with the operation of the PMO and with maintaining a company project management methodology.

People Leadership

• Lead cross-functional teams, including technical and project staff, to define tasks, schedules, levels of effort, and technical direction, ensuring seamless alignment with overarching project goals.
• Train, coach, and mentor project management staff, fostering professional growth and ensuring the development of a high-performing project team.
• Continuously evaluate and enhance the performance of the project team, addressing resource constraints and needs with senior management to ensure timely resolution and optimal team function.

A self-starter with a roll-up-the-sleeves mentality; desire to innovate and work in a hands-on and fast-paced environment.

Excellent time management and people leadership skills.

Travel of up to 30%.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university in mechanical, electrical, aerospace, chemical engineering, physics, materials science, computer science / engineering, mathematics, or business required.
• 5-10 years' experience in program/project management, project engineering, systems engineering, and/or product development required.
• Experience with common project management frameworks, tools, and software.
• Experience working with government and commercial aerospace customers and a familiarity with launch vehicles and/or payload development..
• Experience working with CubeSats, Small Satellites, or any other platforms or payloads designed for operation in space (design, build, test, analysis, launch, operation, etc.).
• Preferred -
• Master's degree
• Experience or familiarity with biological or chemical processes, in basic laboratory principles and techniques, or the ability to quickly gain knowledge with biological or chemical processes preferred.
• Certifications & Licenses:

• PMP credential required.
• Lean Six Sigma certification at green belt or higher required.