Project management roles - MTU Aero Engines North America

Operational Management

Create bill of material (BOM) and place purchase orders for parts.
Interface with vendors – help obtain quotes, purchase requisitions, and write and track purchase orders to ensure delivery.
Provide periodic updates to the team leader highlighting accomplishments, progress, technical issues and roadblocks.
Update supplier progress charts weekly or daily to incorporate vendor information.
Travel to suppliers to provide on-site support, hardware status and review progress on parts and processes.
Integrate multi-discipline requirements including Aero, Structures, Design, Drafting, Manufacturing & Procurement, etc.

Development Project Support

Develop detailed schedule which integrates multidiscipline requirements including Design, Structures, and Procurement.
Own and perform all required Design and Manufacturing Reviews.
Drive design and engineering changes to approval.
Lead meetings, record meeting minutes/action items and drive action items to closure.
Offer cost saving ideas and lead low cost initiatives to keep the project within or under budget.
Navigate project tasks through validation gates and approvals required for completion or implementation.
Establish test plans and coordinate lab and materials testing such as metallurgy, chemical analysis, and white/blue light scanning.
Track developmental hardware through the appropriate approval processes required for production.
Communicate with customer and vendors to update existing specifications and generate new criteria which incorporate the unique characteristics of product or process.

Quality and Process Engineering

Support the evaluation process with vendors to control specific criteria on critical parts beyond material and dimensional confirmation.
Drive new and revised quality initiatives associated with this new product.
Review and assess invoices for acceptance based on the predefined criteria and ensure its compliance with relevant agreements.
Engage and assist the material evaluation team to create testing plans, select viable enhancement options, and define the most efficient process.
Provide recommendations for engine life predictions: mean time between removals on a fleet by fleet basis.
Recommend components and/or piece parts for redesign or repair activity based on performance.
Assist the cost management group by providing reliability statistics that sup-port business case analyses.

Root Cause and Solution Implementation

Review available issue reports and historical documentation.
Select and assemble the necessary discipline representation to provide relevant feedback and support during fault tree generation.
Create cause and effect diagram to determine the potential causes and contributors of failure of an engine component.
Define relevant action items to isolate and verify potential root cause and primary contributors.
Work with various labs to define and execute lab work, including metallurgy, chemical analysis, fractography, flow testing, and white light scanning.
Lead multidisciplinary investigation team to execute action items for evaluation of potential contributors to root cause.
Develop a solution in conjunction with the technical team and present solution to upper management while identifying risks, implementation timeline and cost.
Publish final reports in both customer and internal databases.

Supply Chain Management / Industrial Management