SUMMARY

The Program Operations Manager is responsible for coordinating with the Program, Manufacturing Teams, and Functional Partners to ensure quality, schedule, and cost commitments are met. The POM is responsible for developing and implementing production operations strategies to ensure products are manufacturable, meet cost and throughput requirements supporting the company's growth.

The successful candidate will drive the overall management and participation in all phases of program development from capture and proposals thru development, execution, and close-out.

Firefly Aerospace has an immediate need for a Program Operations Manager (POM) primarily located at our Briggs, TX location.

This position will provide professionals with opportunities to grow their skills in operations management, technical operations, business communications, and leadership.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Primary interface between the program team and the factory leadership team, responsible for flowing all program priorities and requirements on programs that have a planned transition to Operations.
• Collaborate with program, manufacturing, engineering, quality, supply chain, finance, and other functions to be sure all program needs are communicated, supported, and integrated to meet program commitments throughout the product life cycle.
• Responsible to flow down and monitor Operations cost and schedule performance for new development builds and deliveries through strategic development efforts and execution of New Product Introduction processes and procedures.
• Supporting proposal generation and contract-funded product development efforts
• Provides active support to Supply Chain Management by working with program on identified materials constraints and logistics problems to ensure availability of materials and timely and effective operations.
• Collaborates with Manufacturing and Supply Chain to develop capital strategy in support of program and factory objectives.
• Provides budget allocation by factory for tooling, material, direct labor, support labor.
• Provides should cost allocation by deliverable (e.g. Miranda Engine).
• Coordinates cross functionally on program activities across factories and functions (manufacturing, engineering, program, MandP, supply chain) to ensure program schedule and cost objectives are achieved.
• Chairs production readiness review and coordinates inputs and actions.
• Creates and coordinates activities to improve FPY, RTY, defect reductions, producibility.
• Translates Program schedules, working with demand planning and factory leadership, to ensure alignment by configuration between program schedule / contract and factory capacity.
• Leading, influencing, communicating across all levels of the organization.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

University Degree and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 14 years of relevant experience

Wide-ranging Program Leadership / Manufacturing Operations experience

Understanding of product design process

Proven Experience in Manufacturing, Transition to Production, and Production ramp

Self-directed leader capable of executing Change Management and handling ambiguity

Proven Experience managing budgets

Experience with manufacturing automation concepts and implementation

The ideal candidate will possess the de