Associate Project Manager/Business Analyst

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Job Description:

Airbus Helicopters is looking for an Associate Project Manager/Business Analyst to join our Civil Programs Team in Columbus, MS.

The primary functions of Associate Project Manager are: business analysis and reporting, business planning (OP/PIC), aircraft allocation planning and controlling, managing order requirements, configuration development, and arrival schedules for new helicopter acquisitions.

Meet the team:

From building to servicing the next generation of aerospace, our team focuses on quality, productivity and efficiency. We ensure the highest quality of care and safety is built into each aircraft we assemble and maintain. Our team members make it happen.

Your working environment:

On the eastern border of Mississippi you’ll find Columbus, home to our Helicopter manufacturing and assembly lines and Center of Excellence for the entire North America region. It’s here that we produce the UH-72A Lakota Helicopters for the U.S. Army in addition to the H-125 aircraft for civil and commercial customers.

How we care for you:

• Financial Rewards: Competitive base salary, incentive compensation which may include profit sharing schemes, retirement savings plan and the ability to participate in an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”)

• Work/Life Balance: Paid time off including personal time, holidays and a generous paid parental leave program.

• Health & Welfare: Comprehensive insurance coverage including medical (traditional and high-deductible health plans), prescription, dental, vision, life, disability, Employee Assistance Plan (“EAP”) and other supplemental benefit coverages. 

• Individual Development: Upskilling and development opportunities through our global Leadership University, including unlimited access to 10,000+ e-learning courses focusing on ways to develop your employability, certifications, career path as well as the opportunity to participate in accelerated development programmes and both national and international mobility.

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and accessibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

Your challenges:

50% Project Management

Stakeholder Management:  15%

Associate Project Manager will work with various stakeholders to bring project to completion on schedule, on budget and on quality. In doing so, Associate Project Manager will ensure that all project team members:

• Understand the scope of their commitment
• Feel committed to their budget and schedule inputs
• Pull on the same string to accomplish project goals
• Feel engaged and dedicated
• Can voice concerns
• Are informed of project status and next steps ahead
• Understand schedule (SPI) and budget (CPI) situation

Customer Management:  10%

• Guide customer through the aircraft acquisition and completion process
• Focus on customer experience and manage-to-contract
• Make the customer feel welcome. Listen to the customer. Understand the customer. Educate the customer. Inform the customer. Make the customer want to come back to Airbus.
• Manage difficult and controversial situations with finesse.
• Ensure customer satisfaction, in good times and in bad times.

Schedule:  10%

• Develop project schedules in Smartsheets complete with predecessors, successors, planned and actual start- and finish dates, critical path analysis
• Track project schedules on a weekly basis