Integrated Product Team Leader (Aerospace)

Location: On site in Simsbury, Connecticut, United States; 10% travel may be required.

No salary specified.

Company

Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company develops aerospace and defense technologies supporting space missions and armed forces.

What you will do

• Own the full lifecycle execution of development and production projects, including scope, schedule, cost, and risk.
• Lead integrated product teams across engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, and finance.
• Develop project plans, schedules, milestones, cost estimates, budgets, and recovery actions.
• Make cost, schedule, and technical trade decisions and escalate issues with recommended solutions.
• Drive operating cadence, visual management, risk mitigation, structured problem-solving, and continuous improvement.
• Support proposal development and ensure effective transition from development to production.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• 5–10 years of experience in engineering, project execution, or operations within a complex manufacturing environment such as aerospace or defense.
• Experience managing project cost, schedule, scope, budgets, cost baselines, and estimates.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams without direct authority and drive accountability for commitments.
• Strong planning, organizational, analytical, communication, and risk-management skills.
• Ability to work on site at a company facility in Simsbury, Connecticut.

Nice to have

• Experience in both development and production project environments.
• Familiarity with lean principles, visual management, Kaizen, and structured problem-solving methods.
• Experience supporting or leading proposals with cost and schedule development.
• Knowledge of forecasting, estimate at completion, variance analysis, and structured execution systems such as EBOS.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on aerospace and defense missions involving space systems and protection of armed forces.
• Collaborate across a matrixed organization with engineering, operations, supply chain, quality, finance, and program management.
• Participate in continuous improvement and lessons-learned initiatives to strengthen project execution.
• Full-time, on-site position with approximately 10% travel.