Project Management Specialist

*LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY**

Join the Flight Test Instrumentation Design organization working on several new airplane projects. Identifies key stakeholder project objectives and requirements. Ensures assigned individuals or sub-teams are executing the identified and assigned tasks and providing appropriate tracking and reporting per plan. Develops and monitor project plans and deliverables that meet identified requirements by application in accordance with accepted Project Management principles (Project Management Body of Knowledge [PMBOK]). Ensures project objectives and deliverables are being addressed. Provides understanding and direction to the compilation and assembly of status and progress reports.

Assembles recommendations from execution team concerning recovery plans, work scope changes, etc. Formulates presentations and presents project status to management, project sponsor and/or other stakeholders to keep them informed of progress and changes to project. Facilitates or leads others in facilitating negotiations involving major project parameters such as deliverable definition, performance objectives (cost, schedule, quality). Communicate and advise senior staff and line management. Negotiate across several significant projects. Prior to creating a baseline project plan, performs and/or provides guidance for reviews of industry standards, PMBOK and any available data source for best practices, lessons learned, historical and forecast data to perform

JOB SKILLS: ******LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY********
General/Leadership
Consistently clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence. Consistently keeps the audience thoroughly engaged through use of techniques such as analogies, illustrations, humor, an appealing style, body language, and voice inflection. Consistently frames even complex messages in line with audience experience, background, and expectations; uses terms, examples, and analogies that are meaningful to the audience. Consistently seeks input from audience; checks understanding; presents message in different ways to enhance understanding. Uses syntax, pace, volume, diction, and mechanics appropriate to the media being used; attends to both direct and indirect messages from others; correctly interprets messages and responds appropriately. Advises fellow project leads and other internal employees in effective communication techniques.

Decision Making
Consistently recognizes a wide range of complex, specialized issues, problems, or opportunities in own work group, across the organization and with external customers; determines whether action is needed. Steadily identifies the need for and collects information to better understand issues, problems, and opportunities. Regularly integrates complex information from a wide variety of sources; detects complex trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships. Consistently creates relevant options for addressing problems/opportunities and ac