Safran
Project Manager
Company : Safran Electronics & Defense
Job field : Program & Project Management Office
Location : Irvine , California , United States
Contract type : Permanent
Contract duration : Full-time
Required degree : Bachelor's Degree
Required experience : More than 5 years
Professional status : Professional, Engineer & Manager
Salary range : $130K-$190K
# 2025-160516
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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 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.
Job Requirements
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.
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.
Locate your future workplace
1833 Alton ParkwayCA 92606
Irvine
California United States
100,000
employees worldwide
27
Number of countries where Safran is located
35
business area families
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© Safran
Safran is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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 : Safran Electronics & Defense
Job field : Program & Project Management Office
Location : Irvine , California , United States
Contract type : Permanent
Contract duration : Full-time
Required degree : Bachelor's Degree
Required experience : More than 5 years
Professional status : Professional, Engineer & Manager
Salary range : $130K-$190K
# 2025-160516
Apply with one click Any questions ?
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 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.
Job Requirements
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.
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.
Locate your future workplace
1833 Alton ParkwayCA 92606
Irvine
California United States
100,000
employees worldwide
27
Number of countries where Safran is located
35
business area families
Maps are available under theOpen Database Licence (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/) .
© OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) contributors.
© Safran
Safran is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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.