Senior Technical Project Manager

Element Los Angeles has an opportunity for a Senior Technical Project Manager at our Duarte, CA composites non-metallic material test laboratory. We are seeking a technically grounded individual to lead complex aerospace material-qualification, design-allowables, and certification-support programs.

Partnering with customers, engineering, laboratory operations, quality, and commercial teams, this role is the liaison between the laboratory and the customer to execute customer test plans into within the lab workflows while owning schedule, resources, risk, customer communication, and project successes and failures.

Projects may involve multiple material batches, conditioning environments, subcontractors, and up to 10,000 specimens. The successful candidate will combine technical knowledge of composite materials testing with disciplined customer management, customer communication, project leadership, and cross-functional execution.

Salary: $90,000- $130,000/yr DOE 

Responsibilities:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, materials science, aerospace, chemistry, physics, or a related technical field.
• Experience: Seven or more years in technical project management, aerospace testing, material qualification, composite materials, or laboratory operations.
• Customer Service: Clear and concise communication, expectation management, able to manage and de-escalate situations.
• Technical knowledge: Working knowledge of polymer matrix composites, ceramic matric composites, plastics, specimen machining and preparation, environmental conditioning, mechanical testing, instrumentation, calibration, data acquisition, and technical reporting.
• Project leadership: Demonstrated ownership of complex schedules, budgets, forecasts, risks, resources, customer commitments, and cross-functional execution; strong written, verbal, facilitation, and customer-management skills.
• Systems and compliance: Experience with project scheduling tools, LIMS or ERP systems, Microsoft Office, ISO/IEC 17025, Nadcap, and aerospace specifications.

Preferred Qualifications
• Master’s degree in a technical field.
• PMP or comparable project-management certification.
• Proven experience with composite material qualification, design-allowable programs.
• Experience supporting FAA certification testing, conformity readiness, or customer-witness activities.
• Familiarity with CMH-17 and aerospace composite test methods (ASTM, ISO, etc.)

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.