Job Description

At Safran Electronics & Defense Avionics USA, we are driven by innovation, precision, and purpose. As part of the global Safran Group, our culture is built on teamwork, collaboration, and a shared commitment to excellence through our global initiative, Safran Together. Join a passionate team where your contributions make an impact—because at Safran, we move forward together.

Job Summary:
The Assistant Project Manager is responsible for coordinating ongoing activities and ensure workstream delivery progress on schedule. They will support cross functional and international transition efforts across Cananda, the U.S. and Mexico.

Essential Job Functions:
• Liaise across sites in Canada, the U.S., and Mexico to align transition efforts.
• TSA Execution: Work with the workstream leads to track: performance, proper invoicing, and monitor service delivery.
• Work with operations and support coordination of asset transfers, production activities follow up.
• Follow up on build-up, warehousing, and transition of buffer stock per OSA milestones.
• Synchronize planning, dependencies, and execution between functions.
• Maintain master schedule, track KPIs, and issue weekly reports and dashboards.
• Manage and escalate operational issues effectively.
• Maintain action logs, central repositories, and formal records of activities.
• Prepare materials and follow-up actions for project reviews, and steering meetings.
• Other duties may be assigned.

Job Requirements

Required Competencies:
Education/Experience
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in project management.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Strong in cross-functional coordination, issue resolution, and risk management.
• Knowledge of the market
• Effective risk management
• Ability to build and maintain sustainable relationships with customers
• Suppliers' management skills

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 that can communicate clearly (both written and oral) with employees, suppliers at levels from individual contributor to executive management.
• Ability to contribute at a strategic level within the business.
• Highly organized, rigorous and achievement of goal orientated.
• Strong communication, listening and negotiation skills.

But what else? (advantages, specific features, etc.)

Travel Specificity:
Frequent travel between Irvine, California and other locations up to 50%

Physical Demands:
While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to remain in a stationary position and occasionally move about the office. Constantly operates and use a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a copier/printer. The ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand. Must be able to exchange accurate information. The ability to observe, identify and assess details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). Occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds across the office for various needs.

Work Environment:
The work environment is an office environment. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

Experience in relevant Business sector:
- Experience within aerospace industry a plus but not required.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

Company Information

Safran is an international high-technology group, operating in the aviation (propulsion, equipment and interiors), defense and space markets. Its core purpose is to contribute to a safer, more sustainable world, where air transport is more environmentally friendly, comfortable and accessible. Safran has a global presence, with 100,000 employees and sales of 27.3 billion euros in 2024, and holds, alone or in partnership, world or regional leadership positions in its core markets.
Safran is in the 2nd place in the aerospace and defense industry in TIME magazine's "World's best companies 2024" ranking.

Safran Electronics & Defense offers its customers onboard intelligence solutions allowing them to understand the environment, reduce mental load and guarantee a trajectory, even in critical situations, in all environments: on land, at sea, in the sky or space. The company harnesses the expertise of its 13,000 employees towards these three functions: observe, decide and guide, for the civil and military markets.