POSITION DESCRIPTION – Technical Project Manager
Job Title: Technical Project Manager
Reports to: Director of PMO/Quality/Standards
Classification: Exempt
Time Commitment: Full-time
Location: Remote – Contingent Upon Contract Award
Position Summary
AIRTEC, Inc. is seeking a Technical Project Manager to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. The qualified applicant will become part of AIRTEC’s PMO with emphasis on day-to-day reachback support to the PACIFIC Aerial Surveillance Program
The Technical Project Manager leads the planning, launch, coordination, and sustainment of deployed airborne operations supporting FFA host-country missions. This role establishes operational processes, personnel support structures, deployment plans, training, safety requirements, reporting, and customer coordination. The position works closely with flight crews, sensor operators, maintenance leadership, customers, and host-country stakeholders to ensure safe, compliant, and effective mission execution.
The qualified candidate will have strong teambuilding skills, exhibit leadership potential, and possess comprehensive verbal and written communication/presentation skills. The role is responsible for maintaining project documentation, coordinating project activities, tracking deliverables, facilitating communication, and producing project reporting and analysis.
Essential Functions
- Operational setup: Establish daily operations, communications, mission reporting, and troubleshooting standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Mission planning: Define initial aircraft payload and operational capabilities, then apply those capabilities to operational flight profiles for each FFA host country.
- Deployment logistics: Establish crew logistics and host-country deployment plans, including personnel scheduling, deployment coordination, packing requirements, and support for World Fuel Services account setup.
- Procedures and tactics: Develop airborne SOPs and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
- Recruiting and staffing: Assist with reviewing, interviewing, and hiring new personnel.
- Training and onboarding: Produce operational, host-country, deployment, packing, and related training materials; conduct onboarding sessions for A&P mechanics, pilots, and sensor operators.
- Maintenance coordination: Work with the Director of Maintenance on aircraft phase-maintenance and deployment-maintenance schedules and requirements.
- Technical troubleshooting: Prepare initial sensor-payload troubleshooting reports and coordinate appropriate follow-up.
- Safety and compliance: Write and distribute the Air Rider SOP, emphasizing safety and ITAR restrictions; write Air Rider safety briefs; and develop, distribute, and maintain monthly safety-equipment tests.
- Deployment readiness: Conduct pre-deployment theater indoctrination meetings and post-deployment debriefs for deployed personnel.
- Personnel communication: Lead monthly meetings for deployed personnel and provide required reports to the AIRTEC Director of Personnel.
- Customer coordination: Work with the customer to define, build, and sustain contractual requirements, daily and monthly reporting, mission flight profiles, operational communications, pre- and post-mission reports, Air Liaison Officer duties, and aircraft operational schedules.
- Host-country coordination: Support diplomatic and landing permits, coordinate aircraft availability for quad-annual FFA MDA operations, and serve as liaison to the FFA for operational and reporting requirements
Skills Required
- Minimum of 4 Year/Bachelor’s degree required with 3 years professional related experience -OR- a Master's degree with 1 year of professional related experience. Additional years of related experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
- Demonstrated experience managing complex aviation, technical, defense, maritime-domain-awareness, or deployed operational programs.
- Working knowledge of flight operations, aircraft payloads, mission planning, operational reporting, and maintenance coordination.
- Experience developing SOPs, TTPs, training materials, safety briefs, and operational communications.
- Strong project planning, scheduling, logistics, documentation, troubleshooting, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to coordinate effectively with customers, deployed personnel, maintenance teams, flight crews, government representatives, and international host-country stakeholders.
- Sound judgment when handling safety-sensitive, export-controlled, and mission-critical information.
- Ability to lead briefings, onboarding sessions, personnel meetings, and post-deployment debriefs.
- Willingness and ability to support travel and deployments as operational requirements dictate.
Preferred Qualifications
- 4 Year/Bachelor's degree or higher in Business Management, Finance, Operations Management, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
- Expert proficiency in Microsoft Project or other related scheduling tools as demonstrated by an understanding of the tool's properties and functions, including: exports and imports, multi-project consolidation, inter-project linkage, ability to create a variety of views, tables, filters, and reports.
- Experience using Analysis tools and Schedule Risk Assessment tools.
- Working knowledge of EVMS guidelines and processes.
Travel
- Travel and rotational deployment throughout the United States and locations outside of the United States, including austere locations, is required.
Physical Requirements
- This position operates in a fast-paced, mission-focused environment and may require coordination across multiple time zones, frequent interaction with deployed teams, travel to host countries, and responsiveness to changing aircraft, personnel, customer, and mission requirements.
AIRTEC Benefits Overview-FTE Only
- Competitive Pay.
- Medical Insurance with HSA Savings Account (Individual/Families).
- Dental Insurance (Individual 100% Paid/Families).
- Vision Insurance (Individual 100% Paid/Families).
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Company-Paid Life and AD&D Insurance, Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance.
- Voluntary Life Insurance.
- Elective Group Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity and Accident Insurance.
- 401(k) 5% Safe Harbor and Profit-Sharing Program with Employee Participation.
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Medical and Dependent Care).
- Paid Time Off (Safe/Sick Leave).
- College Tuition Reimbursement and Professional Development Training.
- Education Recognition Bonus Program.
- Employee Events (monthly lunches, summer picnic, holiday parties etc.).
- Overtime for Non-Exempt Positions.
AIRTEC, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
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