Programme Project Manager
Date: May 26, 2026
Location: Wellington, KS, US
Company: GKN Aerospace Careers
Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.
GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.35 bn.in 2023. There are no limits to where you can take your career.
Job Summary
The Project manager’s responsibilities include the set-up coordination and completion of the project on time, within budget and within scope.
The Project Manager oversee all aspects of projects, set deadlines, assign responsibilities and monitor and summarize progress of project.
The Project Manager prepare reports for upper management regarding status of project, and ensure that documentation is according to standard.
Travel: Up to 25% travel
Job Responsibilities
- Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
- Create a handshake with the project sponsor on the project objectives & project baseline and determine a plan to realize those objectives.
- Set-up of the project structure to enable measuring project performance
- Ensure that the project is delivered on-time, on-value, within scope and within budget
- Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of project
- Ensure resource availability and allocation
- Develop a detailed project schedule to monitor and track progress
- Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, value and project costs using appropriate verification techniques
- Measure and analyze project performance using appropriate tools and techniques and define recovery plans where deviations to plan so demand.
- Report and escalate to management as needed
- Manage the relationship with all stakeholders
- Actively assess the risk profile and determine effective mitigation plans to minimize project risks
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
- Manage communication to external stakeholders
- Coordinate and delegate work-packages to work-package leaders
- Support project members to develop their individual strengths & skill sets and grow their experience levels
- Meet business case objectives and make adjustments to project constraints based on financial analysis
Job Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of 7 years experience in project managment
- Aerospace experience
- Proven working experience in managing medium complex projects in an industrial environment
- Proven leadership skills on mid - senior management level
- Excellent external and internal communication skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Effective stakeholder management.
- Solid organisational skills including attention to detail and multitasking skills
- Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
- Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle
- Excellent analytical skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- GKN Experience
- Project Management Professional certification like IPMA level C/PMP/ APM PMQ / /Other certification is a plus
We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?
A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working
Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.
We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.
We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.
