Senior Aerospace Development Program Manager
Sogeclair · Wichita
This role is best positioned as a Senior/Lead Aerospace Development Program Manager opportunity with a strong engineering and certification component. The successful candidate must be able to lead a complex aircraft development program across engineering, certification, suppliers, finance, customers, and executive stakeholders.
The key differentiator is that this is not a traditional project manager position focused primarily on schedules. Bombardier needs a technically credible program leader who can integrate the entire aircraft development effort and drive the program from technical definition through certification and customer delivery.
Requirements
- 10+ years of aerospace and/or defense experience, ideally supporting aircraft development programs.
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace Engineering, or another relevant engineering discipline.
- Technical depth sufficient to credibly lead and challenge engineering organizations.
- Aircraft development and certification experience, particularly 14 CFR Part 25.
- Experience working in or alongside an FAA Organization Designation Authorization (ODA) environment.
- Program leadership spanning schedule, cost, risk, technical performance, suppliers, certification, and delivery.
- Experience taking aircraft modifications, new products, or development programs from definition/design through certification and delivery.
- Strong cross-functional leadership and the ability to influence teams without formal authority.
- Customer-facing experience, particularly with executive, government, military, or high-value aircraft customers.
- Budgeting, forecasting, financial governance, and preferably Earned Value Management (EVM) experience.
- Familiarity with PLM and ERP systems.
- Defense, special-mission, business-jet, or complex Part 25 aircraft experience is highly desirable.