Project Office Management Lead (d/m/w)
// Role Summary
Airbus Defence and Space GmbH is seeking an experienced PMO Lead for their Immenstaad site to ensure robust project management within challenging space systems projects.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate project management activities, including planning, scheduling, and risk/opportunity management.
- Serve as the interface with clients and program functions, ensuring plan implementation.
- Develop and implement visualization methods, early warning systems, and KPIs for data-driven decisions.
- Support project audits, reporting, change management, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Requires a degree in Engineering or Business Administration and fluency in German.
// Role Specification
About the Role
Space Systems offers some of the most challenging and interesting projects within Airbus. These projects require a strong and experienced project team capable of mastering the diverse tasks in this dynamic and complex project environment. We are looking for an experienced PMO Lead (d/m/f) to strengthen the German PMO Team and ensure robust and reactive project management for our project perimeter.
Location
At the Airbus site in Immenstaad am Bodensee, you will work where the future of Connected Intelligence, Space, and Air Power is being created. In an environment that offers a broad perspective, you will shape technological innovations across domains. Our location thrives on dialogue: on campus, you will encounter a unique network of experts in satellite technology, military aviation, cyber security, artificial intelligence, and the combat cloud and ground support of tomorrow. Our collaboration is also characterized by dynamism – in agile teams, we dedicate ourselves to the most complex questions, from AI-supported earth observation to secure cloud architecture. Those seeking technological excellence and interdisciplinary collaboration will find the ideal environment here.
Your Tasks and Responsibilities
- Support the PM in all project management activities.
- Act as the interface to the customer and program functions.
- Be responsible for the Project Management Plan and its consistent implementation across all levels of the program.
- Coordinate Schedule Management, including WPM, EVM, preparation and execution of Schedule Control Boards, and alignment with the AIT Schedule.
- Coordinate Risk & Opportunity Management, including ERM, managing the R&O Register (ARM, WYSIT), the R&O Action Register, and tracking mitigation actions. Prepare and conduct Risk Reviews and Risk Control Boards.
- Coordinate SRA and Monte-Carlo analysis in close cooperation with the Project Integrated Planning Manager and the R&O Manager.
- Proactively identify and track Risks & Opportunities.
- Consistently track project progress and implement suitable visualization methods and early-warning systems.
- Define adequate KPIs and TCOs to enable early anticipation and data-based decisions.
- Support internal and external PM audits.
- Prepare project reports in various formats for both internal and external customers as input for MPRs and MBRs.
- Ensure compliance with internal processes and Maturity Gates.
- Provide support for Change and Claim Management.
- Support improvement initiatives for the project.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Experienced PM or PMO Manager. PM/PMO certification or equivalent proof is desirable (PMP).
- Completed studies in Engineering or Business Administration.
- Leadership experience in project work as a PMO or PM.
- Experience in Integrated Planning, Risks and Opportunities Management, and Financial Controlling.
- Excellent communication and moderation skills.
- Ability to work and persuade at eye level with different functions. Conflict management skills.
- Experience in collaborating with and leading international teams in an international project environment.
- Fluent German language skills.
Benefits
- Fair Remuneration & Extras: Attractive remuneration and individual additional benefits, e.g., company pension schemes, mobility offers (e.g., bicycle leasing), or employee benefits from cooperating companies in accordance with our applicable guidelines.
- Time for You (and your loved ones): 30 days annual leave according to collective agreement (35h/week); reconciliation of family & work (flexitime, mobile working, part-time, job sharing, sabbatical).
- Easy Advancement: Excellent further training opportunities and international, group-wide development prospects.
- Well-being at Work: Company doctor; comprehensive health offer (sports courses, prevention programs, etc.), canteen and cafeteria, on-site daycare.
- Diversity Connects: Work in a diverse environment with over 140 nationalities, where exchange, support, and diversity are lived.
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