Associate Project Manager

The Associate Project Manager responsible for communicating project information to stakeholders while monitoring and controlling project scope schedule and budget throughout the life cycle of the project.

**Duties and Responsibilities: **

- Assist in developing detailed plans for fabrication, installation and validation of production tooling systems.

- Project schedule creation and continued maintenance

- Responds to inquiries from project stakeholders across a global organization

- Develop, monitor, and report project budgets

- Approve and disposition non-conforming products from fabrication, electrical programming, and mechanical design activities

- Coordinate purchasing of components with internal manufacturing, external suppliers and vendors including buy analysis

- Responsible for approval and change of production processes

- Perform other duties as assigned.

**Education and Work Experience:**

- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical, Industrial, Electrical Engineering or Engineering Technology or equivalent experience

- Minimum of two years of experience in manufacturing / engineering related field

- 3D graphics software experience such as SolidWorks, Catia and NX

- Experience in an aerospace or tooling manufacturing environment

**Work Authorization/Security Clearance Requirements:**

- This position may require a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

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**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:**

*List of needed knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully accomplish the duties and responsibilities of the job.*

- Can multitask and manage multiple large to small projects in a cross functional environment.

- Comfortable working in foreign business environments; must have strong interpersonal skills.

- Creates and maintains complex files and written documents.

- Work in a high energy, high volume, rapidly changing environment.

- Excellent time management skills and ability to plan and set priorities.

- Clear and effective communication skills in both written and spoken forms.

- Understands how to use the computers, including such tasks as turning the computer on and off, locating and opening files, navigate to websites, perform searches, and download files.

- Knowledge of computer applications including email, databases, word-processing program and spreadsheets (such as Microsoft Office).

- Maintains confidentiality while processing and handling confidential information with discretion.

- Defines tasks and milestones to achieve objectives, while ensuring the optimal use of resources to achieve those objectives.

- Works effectively with different levels of management, team members and customers.

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**Work Conditions:**

**Environment Type:**

- Indoors, Office Environment. Temperate Controlled.

**Exposure Types:**

- No adverse environmental conditions expected.

**Work Hours:**

- Standard work schedule, overtime may be necessary for meeting deadlines, required travel, and emergent conditions.

**Travel Requirements:**

- This position may involve travel up to 15% of the time.

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**Physical Demands:**

*The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.*

Light work that includes moving objects up to 20 pounds.

Picking, pinching, typing or otherwi