AeroTEC is an aerospace engineering company providing a wide array of high-end services and turnkey solutions ranging from aircraft level analysis and design engineering, all the way to prototype flight testing and complete airworthiness certification. Our highly experienced aerospace engineering, testing, and program management teams work closely with customers to address their unique needs in a safe and cost-effective manner, utilizing proven in-house development methodologies and tools. 

About the Team

AeroTEC's Program Management Office (PMO) provides comprehensive, full-service program and project management services to the AeroTEC organization. The PMO Division is responsible for taking direction and inputs from our customers, developing work plans (schedules, budgets, resource and task management, and customer communication) and driving the AeroTEC Team to meet customer goals and deliverables (on-time and on-budget).

About the Role

The Head of PMO will lead a team of Program Managers & Program Analysts and is responsible for understanding the overall project critical path, and how small changes to project timelines will impact work-stream interdependencies. This role requires the significant exercise of independent discretion and judgment in matters of significance.

This is a leadership position and the person who fills this role must exude all of AeroTEC’s core values. 

In This Role You Will:

1. Be accountable for the execution of all commercial, government and internal strategic programs.
2. Be accountable for the management of overall project critical path, and how small changes to project timelines will impact workstream interdependencies.
3. Lead a team of Program professionals to create master schedules that track and report on implementation efforts across Risk Management, Treasury, Audit, Controllership, and Technologies remain to accomplish milestones.
   • Build a department structure with appropriate, cost-effective staffing levels.
   • Ensure operational performance standards are met or exceeded.
4. Monitor departmental work performance to ensure productivity and the needs of the department and operations are met. 
5. Attend and participate in various management and supervisorial meetings and projects as required.
6. Act as an inter-departmental planning partner and consult with other leads and managers on projects and initiatives as needed.
7. Manage short- and long-term PMO Department planning. 
8. Track goals and progress toward them. 
9. Report status regularly to the CEO, Leadership Team and Board.
10. Stay abreast of latest industry trends, update existing processes and implement new processes as required.
11. Consolidate all project and program level milestones and dependencies to identify integrated risks and opportunities.
12. Lead the team to the identification, analyzes, responses to and monitoring of project risks;
    • Determines prioritization of Program risks.
    • Maximize the probability and impact of positive events and minimizes the probability and impact of adverse events.
13. Lead the team to maintain a comprehensive, integrated issue, Risk, and Decision documentation, as they relate to project timelines and co-dependencies, and coordinate solutions development. Maintain documentation of changes to scope, timelines, milestones, and deliverables, and identify dependency implications.
14. Manage the team to ensure that the review of all necessary work plans and related project management documentation are completed in sufficient detail to provide for adequate management and control, as well as consist with overall master schedule and dependencies.
15. Oversee the development of communications documents detailing implementation progress for Senior Leadership, Boards, and Regulators, including regular reporting.
16. Execute regular PMO Department meetings. 
17. Optimize governance such that information flows efficiently through the organization.
18.  Ensure executive level information for program health can be quickly understood through analytics and dashboards.
19. Regular travel to AeroTEC facilities and customer locations as often required to support executive business development, project planning, project execution and customer management meetings.