Airbus UpNext - Project Management Officer (m/f)

Job Description:

Join us to be part of a new strategic Airbus UpNext flight demonstrator engineered to Improve Operational efficiency, Enhance Safety (beyond current standards)!

Designed as a talent incubator, our fast-paced environment empowers you to act and think like a startup while leveraging deep Airbus expertise to pioneer the autonomy revolution.

The Project Management Officer position is within Airbus UpNext, based in Toulouse (Saint Martin) and it consists of a limited contract (CDI-C) linked to the deliverable of the demonstrator (estimated end date 31 December 2028), starting ASAP

Mission

As the Project Management Officer, you will be the right hand to the Head of Demonstrator, ensuring the project runs smoothly and meets its ambitious goals. You will be at the heart of it, driving its operational rhythm and ensuring performance is tracked and managed effectively.

Your main tasks and responsibilities will include:

• Project Performance Management:

  • Support the Head of Demonstrator in managing the project’s performance against its Time, Cost and Quality (TCQ) objectives.

  • Monitor the project’s financial performance, tracking the Forecasted Cost at Completion against the established budget while producing required reports for coordination and alignment with UpNext at central level.

  • Formalize and track the master schedule against the ambitious 24-month timeline, monitoring progress towards key milestones like PDR, CDR, DPPS, EIS and Final Project Review.

• Procurement, Funding & Intellectual Property:

  • Manage the tendering processes, contract negotiations and supply chain logistics for the project.

  • Help manage the project’s Intellectual Property (IP), ensuring needed IP protection clauses are included in commercial agreements.

• Governance, Risk & Opportunities and Stakeholder Management:

  • Prepare and coordinate all materials for governance meetings, including the regular Stop&Go reviews with the steering committee and project’s sponsors.

  • Actively manage the project’s risk and opportunity register, ensuring that risks are mitigated, opportunities captured and the corresponding actions are assigned and followed up to completion.

  • Support the management of key stakeholders to ensure alignment and clear communication.

• Team and Operational Support:

  • Serve as a key interface within the multi-functional project team, helping to define internal processes and establish a collaborative environment.

  • Ensure project learnings, operational procedures and other relevant key deliverables are properly collected and documented in preparation for knowledge dissemination and the final facility handover to Airbus.

Your boarding pass

What you bring:

• Demonstrated seniority in project management, with strong command of monitoring and controlling project budget and schedule. Project Management Certificate would be a plus.

• Strong financial acumen with hands-on experience in contract management, tendering processes and supplier relations.

• Proven ability to manage project risks and opportunities, coupled with excellent stakeholder communication and reporting skills.

• An agile and proactive mindset, with the autonomy to take initiative and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, demanding, startup-like environment.

• Eagerness to take initiatives to propose simpler and efficient ways of working. Impatience and burning desire to attain rapidly, along with a healthy skepticism for progress.

• Values of transparency, humility & empathy. Autonomy, adaptability, availability & accountability.

• Team-Player mindset and willingness to have fun.

• Strong English communication skills.

What you get:

• Pivotal Role in a Strategic Mission: play a key part in a project and participate in the Smart Automation revolution.

• Build Something that Last: Your work will create a high-value asset and learning contribution for Airbus’s future. 

• Develop Critical Competences: Acquire and develop a sound background in aircraft operations with specific focus on Smart Autonomy.

• Agile and Empowering Environment: Thrive in a work culture that empowers you to act and think like a start-up while being supported by the strong expertise of Airbus. We value an eagerness to take initiative and propose efficient ways of working.

• A Great Team and Culture: Be part of a high-achieving, experienced and fun team in a shared open-space office with highly skilled colleagues. We are guided by the “Care for Each Other” value.

• Flexibility & Fun: Enjoy the ability to craft your calendar 🗓️ with flexible hours and the opportunity to work remotely, alongside regular UpNext community bonding events. And yes, we have complimentary freshly ground coffe ☕ and beverages 🧃 

The responsibilities and the technical scope of the job might evolve according to the agile working environment of the project, so being flexible is important.

About us

Founded in 2017, Airbus UpNext is actively shaping the future of aerospace by using demonstrators to evaluate, mature and validate new products and services. Our purpose is to pioneer game-changing technologies with Airbus.

In this role, you will embody the core Airbus UpNext values:

• Care for Each Other: Ensuring a supportive and inclusive environment.

• Be Simple: Finding the most efficient path to success.

• Be Audacious: Challenging the status quo to make the unthinkable real.

• Be Open: Collaborative solution-finding across diverse teams.

• Speed of Execution: Moving at the speed of a startup.

Feel the fire in your belly when you read this? If so…. Send us your application!

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:

Airbus UpNext SAS

Employment Type:

Fixed term

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Experience Level:

Professional

Job Family:

Programme & Project Management <JF-PP-PM>

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