MV-75 Airworthiness Manager

Airworthiness Manager

This role serves as an Airworthiness manager and subject matter expert for the MV-75 Program by ensuring that the Weapon System complies to requirements for flight readiness, airworthiness release, and airworthiness qualification through all phases of development. The leader will be responsible for successfully organizing, executing, and coordinating all aspects of airworthiness in support of program objectives through effective cooperation with leaders of Bell's Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), Bell Core Engineering, the U.S. Army System Readiness Directorate (SRD), and the U.S. Army Program Office for assigned subsystems and functions. Excellent communication and cross-functional management skills are essential for this role.

What you'll be doing as the Airworthiness Manager :

• Lead Airworthiness engineers in achieving program airworthiness objectives including flight readiness releases, incremental airworthiness releases, and airworthiness qualification in compliance with an agreed Airworthiness Qualification Specification.
• Provides supervisory oversight and subject-matter expert advice to support mission and projects covering all aspects of military airworthiness.
• Provides oversight, scheduling coordination and synchronization of airworthiness artifact plans and submittals to ensure alignment for assigned airworthiness requirements, subsystems, and functions.
• Implement strategies to identify, assess and mitigate risks to airworthiness.
• Partner with IPT leadership and influence across IPTs to efficiently organize airworthiness activities, pass established milestones and gate reviews, and maintain meaningful reporting metrics that are accurate and up to date.
• Collaborate effectively with the program Chief Engineers, Bell Test and Evaluation, and Bell Core Engineering to support flight readiness assessments, manage customer airworthiness demands, and ensure that systems meet required standards for readiness and safety.
• Leverage technical experience to guide the development, management, and execution of a safety-of-flight program in partnership with Bell Core Engineering.
• Brief program and enterprise senior leaders on airworthiness progress, risks, and metrics.
• Collaborate with U.S. Army PMO and SRD leadership to drive rapid concurrence through direct interaction on significant technical matters which often require coordination between internal and external organizations.
• Provide input to the budget for the program airworthiness function, ensuring efficient allocation of resources to support program objectives.
• Coordinate with external agencies and suppliers to ensure that all components and systems comply with the necessary airworthiness requirements and standards.
• Performs the broad range of administrative and technical supervisory duties.
• Assigns work and establishes priorities; evaluates performance of direct reports; provides professional support, advice / counsel, and instructions to direct reports on a regular basis in addition to mid and year-end reviews; interviews and recommends selection of candidates for team positions, promotions, and reassignments.

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Recruiting Company : Bell Textron Inc.

Primary Location : US-Texas-Fort Worth

Job Function : Engineering

Schedule : Full-time

Job Level : Manager with Direct Reports

Job Type : Experienced

Shift : First Shift

Travel : Yes, 5% of the time

Relocation : Available