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Job Summary:
The Project Manager is responsible for leading complex cross-functional and international projects to ensure operational excellence, technical feasibility, and delivery on schedule. This role combines project management leadership with engineering coordination to support transition activities, process integration, and technical performance across Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.

Essential Job Functions:

• Lead and coordinate project execution across sites in Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.
• Drive TSA execution, ensuring performance tracking, invoicing accuracy, and service delivery.
• Oversee / coordinate engineering-related activities, including review of technical feasibility, alignment of design and industrial processes, and support for product/production transfer.
• Oversee operational readiness: asset transfers, production activities, buffer stock transition, and warehouse build-up.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to validate technical requirements, risk assessments, and process improvements.
• Maintain and update the master schedule, KPIs, and dashboards; provide executive-level reporting.
• Identify, escalate, and resolve operational and technical issues.
• Ensure documentation control, central repositories, and technical record integrity.
• Prepare project review materials and drive steering committee follow-up.
• Mentor and support cross-functional teams, fostering a high-performance, quality-driven culture.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Required Competencies:
Education/Experience
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Business, or related field.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in project management, with exposure to engineering or industrialization.
• Aerospace industry experience is strongly preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong in cross-functional coordination, issue resolution, and risk management.
• Technical knowledge of industrial processes, design-to-production transfer, and engineering change management.
• Ability to align engineering deliverables with operational goals.
• Supplier and stakeholder management expertise.
• Strong customer orientation with emphasis on quality, compliance, and timelines.

Leadership Skills / Management Skills / Personal Skills

• Change agent.
• Ability to manage and solve conflicts.
• Ability to analyze, synthesize, and manage complex situations, solve conflicts, and drive team alignment.
• Strong customer orientation, with a focus on quality control, integrity, and time management.
• Demonstrated capability to mentor, coach, and develop teams, fostering a high-performance culture.
• Critical thinking.
• Leadership by influence, cultural agility, and diplomacy in executive-facing environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, stakeholder engagement, and reporting abilities.
• A self-motivated team player able to operate with the minimum of supervision and communicate clearly (both written and oral) with employees and suppliers from individual contributor to executive management levels.
• Ability to contribute at a strategic level within the business.
• Highly organized, rigorous, and achievement goal-oriented.
• Strong communication, listening, and negotiation skills.