Program Manager
Zantech
PMP
Senior Staff Program Manager, Certification
Archer
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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💰 $186,240 - $232,800 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
PMP
About the role
- Report to the Certification Program Manager in the Archer Program Management Office and help guide certification efforts for Archer's first certified aircraft
- Lead the development, execution, and management of the overall certification project plan, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and internal timelines
- Maintain and manage an integrated schedule, including key certification milestones (PDR, CDR, FAA milestones, compliance reports, etc.)
- Serve as a program liaison with FAA and other certification foreign authorities, managing submission, review, and approval processes
- Coordinate with Designated Engineering Representatives (DER) for compliance related activities
- Coordinate cross‑functional certification activities involving engineering, quality, system engineering, integrated test, and configuration management
- Track and produce metrics, dashboards, status reports, and forecasts for leadership
- Coordinate and oversee preparation of regulatory submission packages to support certification deliverables with the certification engineering team
- Collaborate with program leadership to develop and track budget, schedule, resource allocations, and recovery plans as needed
- Manage risk, issue, opportunity, and change management activities and frameworks
- Work directly with product teams and certification engineering to establish designs, development, and certification plans for Type Certification
- Support meetings with regulatory authorities; prepare briefing materials, and ensure completion of action items
- Assist or lead certification efforts on domestic or international certification programs through all phases of the type certification program
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Aerospace, Systems, Engineering, or similar technical discipline
- 7+ years of hands‑on experience leading civil certification programs for aircraft
- Previous experience with Part 23, 8110.4c, AC 20-107, AC 23-19 and other applicable regulations and guidance materials
- Working knowledge of 14 CFR parts applicable to certification (e.g. 23/25/27/33, etc.) and associated Advisory Circulars or policy letters
- Experience in developing and executing certification plans
- Experience interacting and communicating directly with FAA or other airworthiness authorities
- Experience with scheduling and managing a certification project from concept through type certification
- Excellent organizational, written and verbal communication skills—able to translate highly technical certification content into clear, compliance-grade deliverables
- Bonus: Experience as an FAA DER or ODA unit member
- Bonus: Direct experience with FAA Conformity
- Bonus: PMP certification or equivalent
- Bonus: Experience with eVTOL, powered-lift, or other special class aircraft development
- Bonus: Experience with the Issue Paper process
