Programming Assistant Director

Position Summary: The Assistant Program Manager is responsible for supporting the Program Manager in coordination of all activities related to the fulfilment of assigned customer orders for commercial aircraft passenger seats, from the time a program is handed over by the Sales department, through engineering, certification, supply chain and production phases, and until program closure. The primary focus of the Assistant Program Manager is to support Program Manager in ensuring complete satisfaction of assigned customers with the RECARO Aircraft Seating products and services, maintaining cost, quality and schedule control, as well as RECARO’s quality and design standards. The Assistant Program Manager has primary responsibility to support the Program Manager in maintaining a program’s on time performance, quality, cost and weight targets as well as get trained to manage programs without supervision. Take the next step in your career now, scroll down to read the full role description and make your application. Support Program Manager in managing program from sales handover to program closure with complete responsibility over cost, timeline, scope and quality of the product. Develop full scale project plan in MS Project Manage ZACSA Manage MS Tracking database updates Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support overall program baseline in collaboration with project team, senior management, and stakeholders. Together with Program Manager, manage program scope and access the impact of scope changes Responsible for communication with customers and stakeholders Assist Program Manager in managing program teams to achieve project results: Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path and continually manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders. Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team and when not solved in team meetings escalate them to management board. Define priorities within the project and agree on delegation of tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel with clear accountability within the program team. Ensure IFE test equipment is loaded with correct software level and is functioning properly to test the required system within contract specifications. Together with Program Manager, Responsible for overall program performance. Responsible to organize implementation of FAI open items Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas. Participate in team and PMO meetings to support process upgrades or develop new processes/ procedures Adhere to program management guidelines and standards for project execution. Prepare project audits and implement risk analysis using RECARO standards and tools. Conduct project postmortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements (as part of lessons learned practice) Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree is required. A degree in Business, Mechanical, Aerospace or Electrical Engineering is desired with 0-2 years of relevant experience. Strong, proven customer relations skills are required. The position requires a high level understanding of engineering concepts and FAA certification procedures for commercial aircraft seats Must possess strong negotiation skills and the ability to positively influence customer decisions, while maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction. Ability to take initiative and work with minimum supervision. xsgimln