Project Manager

Ascent Integration, an Ascent Aerospace company, is a European business with offices in the UK, Germany, and France. Our teams of designers, experts, workpackage leaders, and project managers provide turnkey manufacturing, assembly, and maintenance solutions to the industry. We help our customers find optimized solutions to their industrial needs, minimize their capex and recurring costs while ensuring technical feasibility and performances. We enable our customers to use their production or maintenance tools with the highest level of safety, quality, and availability by supplying fast and tailored solutions. Ascent Integration has a record of accomplishments in the rail and aerospace industries.

Mission

In coordination with Ascent Integration central teams, the Project Manager manages bids and projects, ensures profitability of the projects, and full application of Group processes and methodologies. He/She is responsible for leading the project team, handling the technical and contractual aspects of the project(s) in terms of quality, cost, and time.

Main duties & responsibilities

• Project Management: Profitably manage assembly line and tooling projects through the on-site engineering teams and the Ascent Integration support staff.
• Take full leadership of the project definition: Structure and manage the PBS, WBS, and industrial plan of the project in line with a clarified scope of work; Organize the deliverables of the project and secure the expected performances by making anticipated verification and validation plans.
• Be responsible for the schedule by managing it with the teams and by organizing the project milestones.
• Full project profitability responsibility: Make and update budgets to secure and grow the margin; Follow customer invoices and supplier spending.
• Define, motivate, and manage project teams consisting of work package leader, technical leader, designer, PMO, site coordinator.
• Be the customer focal point to manage customer satisfaction, interfaces, communications, and contractual deliverables. Follow them with the company metrics.
• Be the contract manager of the project by checking delivery scope, schedules, quality deliverables versus the contract and the specifications. Ensure full capture of up-scopes by effectively documenting and negotiating with the customer.
• Organize project management activities with the team: risk analysis, input data list, deliverable list, quality documentation, site work organizations.

Quality and human management: Ensure full compliance with Ascent Integration processes and methodologies (Harmonize processes with Ascent Integration). Check team competencies versus project needs and propose trainings and team improvements.

Business Development: In coordination with Ascent Integration: Listen to new local business opportunities. Contribute to developing local supply chain (supplier assessments, responsibility/interface to suppliers…)

Profile Experience / Qualifications: Ten (10) years' total experience, with broad background in areas of project management, engineering/tooling, preferably aeronautical assembly lines or equivalent. >5 years managing project/program in a high change design & build environment with significant scope growth. Experience managing projects with poor scope definition and bringing to satisfactory conclusion is a plus. Demonstrated experience in improving Project Management processes, and in developing supporting business processes where they were absent. Strong technical understanding of aerospace product development and production requirements definition.

Education: Master's Degree in either Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, or Business Management. Project Management Certification.