{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"ad9fee6e7e36070355f330a5","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ad9fee6e7e36070355f330a5","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ad9fee6e7e36070355f330a5","title":"Project Manager - Engineering","description":"Kraus Hamdani Aerospace (KHA) is an aerospace company specializing in long-endurance unmanned aerial platforms for a wide variety of industries. KHA supports a number of customers to carry out missions involving aerial reconnaissance, survey, communication relay and communications provisioning. Endurance, enabled by effective design, is key to these applications and KHA aircraft utilize cutting-edge aircraft design together with on-board intelligence to deliver value for these customers.\n\nWe are currently seeking an experienced Engineering Project Manager to help drive execution across multiple engineering and cross-functional initiatives supporting the design, development, manufacturing, and deployment of our Ultra Long Endurance aircrafts.\n\nThis individual will serve as a central coordination point across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Flight Operations, and other functional teams to ensure critical projects remain organized, priorities stay aligned, and key deliverables continue moving forward. Success in this role requires exceptional organizational skills, strong technical project management experience, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where priorities evolve rapidly.\n\nThe Engineering Project Manager will work closely with engineering leadership to translate strategic priorities into actionable project plans, coordinate cross-functional execution, proactively identify risks, and ensure projects are completed on schedule while maintaining visibility for leadership.\n\nLocation: Reno, NV Office\n\nResponsibilities:\n\nLead the planning, execution, tracking, and successful delivery of multiple concurrent engineering projects and strategic initiatives.\nDevelop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, action item registers, and risk logs.\nCoordinate activities across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Flight Operations, and other functional organizations.\nFacilitate project meetings, capture decisions, document action items, and ensure timely follow-up with project stakeholders.\nMonitor project status, identify schedule risks, resource constraints, and cross-functional dependencies, escalating issues when appropriate.\nOwn the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle, including requirements, development, quality assurance (QA), documentation, release, customer delivery, and training readiness.\nManage the software delivery pipeline to ensure work is properly planned, tracked, tested, documented, released, and communicated before being considered complete.\nCoordinate across software, engineering, manufacturing, quality, product, support, and customer-facing teams to ensure releases are delivered reliably and are ready for customer use.\nSupport engineering change implementation, product development activities, manufacturing readiness efforts, and continuous process improvement initiatives.\nCoordinate with internal and external stakeholders, including suppliers and technical partners, as required to support project objectives.\nEnsure project documentation is complete, accurate, and maintained throughout the project lifecycle.\nPartner with engineering leadership to prioritize work, manage competing initiatives, and maintain visibility into organizational priorities.\nManage competing priorities across engineering teams and provide disciplined prioritization, ensuring new requests do not jeopardize existing commitments, release quality, engineering milestones, or customer obligations.\nDrive accountability across project teams while fostering strong collaborative relationships throughout the organization.\nTrack project performance metrics and prepare regular status updates for engineering leadership and executive management.\nRecommend and implement scalable project management processes, tools, and best practices that improve organizational execution without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.\n\nRequirements:\n\n5+ years of project management experience leading complex, cross-functional engineering projects involving multiple technical disciplines, including hardware, software, systems engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and product development teams within aerospace, defense, aviation, UAS, robotics, or other highly technical product development environments.\nDemonstrated success managing multiple concurrent engineering projects with competing priorities, aggressive schedules, and cross-functional dependencies.\nStrong understanding of project planning, scheduling, risk management, dependency management, resource coordination, and project execution methodologies.\nExperience supporting engineering organizations throughout the complete product development lifecycle, from concept and design through development, integration, testing, manufacturing, and product release.\nProven ability to coordinate technical teams, facilitate cross-functional decision making, and drive accountability across organizations without direct management authority.\nExcellent organizational, written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and executive stakeholders.\nStrong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills with the ability to proactively identify risks and develop practical solutions.\nProficiency with Microsoft Office and modern project management platforms such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Asana, Smartsheet, or equivalent.\nU.S. Citizenship required.\n\nPlus:\n\nStrongly Preferred: Experience managing engineering projects within the aerospace, defense, aviation, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), drone, or other closely related industries developing complex electromechanical products.\nExperience supporting organizations that develop complex hardware and software systems, including multidisciplinary engineering teams responsible for mechanical, electrical, embedded software, firmware, and systems integration.\nExperience supporting New Product Introduction (NPI), engineering change management, configuration management, or product lifecycle management (PLM) processes.\nExperience working in a high-growth startup or rapidly scaling technology company where priorities evolve quickly and organizational processes are still maturing.\nProject Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent project management certification.\nExperience implementing or improving project management processes, reporting frameworks, and organizational execution practices across engineering organizations.\n\nWhat Success Looks Like:\n\nEngineering projects remain organized, visible, and on schedule.\nCross-functional communication improves across technical organizations.\nProject risks and blockers are identified early and addressed proactively.\nLeadership has clear visibility into project health, priorities, and upcoming milestones.\nAction items are consistently tracked to completion.\nProject management processes scale effectively as the organization continues to grow.\n\nWho We Are:\n\nKHA develops the world's longest endurance fully electric Unmanned Aerial System (\"UAS\") in our size and weight category. We solve large-scale worldwide problems by providing persistent overhead services to help our soldiers remain safe in theater, provision rapid emergency communications for disaster relief efforts, enable search-and-rescue services to assist emergency response efforts, help anti-poaching to protect the world's most endangered species and provide geospatial data to assist in slowing climate change.\n\nhttps://krausaerospace.com/\n\nCompensation:\n\nComplete health care package\n\nNext Step:\n\nPlease submit your resume, contact information and a short paragraph outlining why you believe this position is a good fit. We will reach out to you directly over the phone for next steps.\n\nKraus Hamdani Aerospace, Inc. (\"Company\") collects and uses Personal Information (as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (\"CCPA\")) for human resources, employment, health and safety, and business-related purposes and to be in legal compliance. For more information, please read the full notice.\n\nIf you are an EU applicant, by sharing your personal information with Kraus Hamdani Aerospace, Inc. you hereby (a) acknowledge and consent to the international transfer of your personal information to the United States, despite the risks associated due to the absence of an adequacy decision and appropriate safeguards, and (b) acknowledge that you have carefully read and understood this notice.\n\nEEO Statement\n\nKraus Hamdani Aerospace is committed to providing Equal Opportunity in Employment, to all applicants and employees regardless of, race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, handicap, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.","company":"Kh Aerospace","rawCompany":"kh aerospace","city":"Minden","state":"NV","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-14T10:25:27.451Z","occupations":[{"code":"13-1082.00","title":"Project Management Specialists","slug":"project-management-specialists"},{"code":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"},{"code":"15-1299.09","title":"Information Technology Project Managers","slug":"information-technology-project-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"336411","title":"Aircraft Manufacturing","slug":"aircraft-manufacturing"},{"code":"336414","title":"Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing","slug":"guided-missile-and-space-vehicle-manufacturing"},{"code":"334511","title":"Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing","slug":"search-detection-navigation-guidance-aeronautical-and-nautical-system-and-instrument-manufacturing"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Project Manager - Engineering","description":"Kraus Hamdani Aerospace (KHA) is an aerospace company specializing in long-endurance unmanned aerial platforms for a wide variety of industries. KHA supports a number of customers to carry out missions involving aerial reconnaissance, survey, communication relay and communications provisioning. Endurance, enabled by effective design, is key to these applications and KHA aircraft utilize cutting-edge aircraft design together with on-board intelligence to deliver value for these customers.\n\nWe are currently seeking an experienced Engineering Project Manager to help drive execution across multiple engineering and cross-functional initiatives supporting the design, development, manufacturing, and deployment of our Ultra Long Endurance aircrafts.\n\nThis individual will serve as a central coordination point across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Flight Operations, and other functional teams to ensure critical projects remain organized, priorities stay aligned, and key deliverables continue moving forward. Success in this role requires exceptional organizational skills, strong technical project management experience, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where priorities evolve rapidly.\n\nThe Engineering Project Manager will work closely with engineering leadership to translate strategic priorities into actionable project plans, coordinate cross-functional execution, proactively identify risks, and ensure projects are completed on schedule while maintaining visibility for leadership.\n\nLocation: Reno, NV Office\n\nResponsibilities:\n\nLead the planning, execution, tracking, and successful delivery of multiple concurrent engineering projects and strategic initiatives.\nDevelop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, action item registers, and risk logs.\nCoordinate activities across Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality, Flight Operations, and other functional organizations.\nFacilitate project meetings, capture decisions, document action items, and ensure timely follow-up with project stakeholders.\nMonitor project status, identify schedule risks, resource constraints, and cross-functional dependencies, escalating issues when appropriate.\nOwn the end-to-end software delivery lifecycle, including requirements, development, quality assurance (QA), documentation, release, customer delivery, and training readiness.\nManage the software delivery pipeline to ensure work is properly planned, tracked, tested, documented, released, and communicated before being considered complete.\nCoordinate across software, engineering, manufacturing, quality, product, support, and customer-facing teams to ensure releases are delivered reliably and are ready for customer use.\nSupport engineering change implementation, product development activities, manufacturing readiness efforts, and continuous process improvement initiatives.\nCoordinate with internal and external stakeholders, including suppliers and technical partners, as required to support project objectives.\nEnsure project documentation is complete, accurate, and maintained throughout the project lifecycle.\nPartner with engineering leadership to prioritize work, manage competing initiatives, and maintain visibility into organizational priorities.\nManage competing priorities across engineering teams and provide disciplined prioritization, ensuring new requests do not jeopardize existing commitments, release quality, engineering milestones, or customer obligations.\nDrive accountability across project teams while fostering strong collaborative relationships throughout the organization.\nTrack project performance metrics and prepare regular status updates for engineering leadership and executive management.\nRecommend and implement scalable project management processes, tools, and best practices that improve organizational execution without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.\n\nRequirements:\n\n5+ years of project management experience leading 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scale effectively as the organization continues to grow.\n\nWho We Are:\n\nKHA develops the world's longest endurance fully electric Unmanned Aerial System (\"UAS\") in our size and weight category. We solve large-scale worldwide problems by providing persistent overhead services to help our soldiers remain safe in theater, provision rapid emergency communications for disaster relief efforts, enable search-and-rescue services to assist emergency response efforts, help anti-poaching to protect the world's most endangered species and provide geospatial data to assist in slowing climate change.\n\nhttps://krausaerospace.com/\n\nCompensation:\n\nComplete health care package\n\nNext Step:\n\nPlease submit your resume, contact information and a short paragraph outlining why you believe this position is a good fit. We will reach out to you directly over the phone for next steps.\n\nKraus Hamdani Aerospace, Inc. (\"Company\") collects and uses Personal Information (as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (\"CCPA\")) for human resources, employment, health and safety, and business-related purposes and to be in legal compliance. For more information, please read the full notice.\n\nIf you are an EU applicant, by sharing your personal information with Kraus Hamdani Aerospace, Inc. you hereby (a) acknowledge and consent to the international transfer of your personal information to the United States, despite the risks associated due to the absence of an adequacy decision and appropriate safeguards, and (b) acknowledge that you have carefully read and understood this notice.\n\nEEO Statement\n\nKraus Hamdani Aerospace is committed to providing Equal Opportunity in Employment, to all applicants and employees regardless of, race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, military status, veteran status, handicap, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.","datePosted":"2026-09-14T10:25:27.451Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T10:25:27.451Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Kh Aerospace","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Minden","addressRegion":"NV","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"ad9fee6e7e36070355f330a5"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ad9fee6e7e36070355f330a5"}}