Senior Program Manager

Adient Aerospace is a Joint Venture between Adient and Boeing. Boeing brings a deep knowledge of Aerospace, and Adient is the world’s leader in automotive seating. At Adient Aerospace, it is our mission to deliver innovative seating design through precise operational excellence, resulting in a superior customer experience. We bring the right pieces together, in precisely the right way, at precisely the right time.

Adient Aerospace is looking for a Senior Program Manager to join our team in Huntington Beach, California. This is an on-site role and must be based in Huntington Beach, CA. We look for highly proficient individuals who are collaborative, value diversity, enjoy working as a team, and share our passion to succeed. We invest in our employees with opportunities for professional development and we offer competitive benefits.

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JOB SUMMARY

The Senior Program Manager is responsible for the cost, schedule, and quality of a customer or internally funded project or program. They act as the customer primary point of contact and must have excellent technical management and communications skills. This position has matrixed resources that indirectly report and have functional responsibilities that include but may not be limited to engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and quality. They will identify potential risks and implement plans with actions to ensure successful program completion. The Senior Program Manager is also responsible for profitable and timely execution of specific program(s).

SUMMARY OF JOB DUTIES - Essential Functions (Other duties and projects may be assigned or requested.)

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

• Manage/guide technical issues and make decisions that reduce overall technical risk.
• Develop Project Charter & Program Plan
• Manage and control changes
• Actual costs tracking overall cost management
• Estimates to complete and estimates at completion
• Communications plan with communications distribution and feedback
• Project I Program scope management and performance reporting
• Create work breakdown structures
• Control out-of-scope activities through change management
• Performance to and management of requirements
• Project I Program risk identification and management
• Quantitative I qualitative analysis, abatement and tracking of risk reduction
• Create and manage Project I Program schedule with defined activities and milestones
• Project I Program Resource Management
• Identify project/ program team responsibilities and accountabilities