Program Manager
General Authority of Military Industries (GAMI)
Total years of experience :11 years, 8 months
- Manage different high-value programs and projects simultaneously and ensure meeting stakeholders' expectations and satisfaction in all dimensions
- Lead, manage, and drive offset and industrial participation programs through their entire lifecycle with financial and project/program management capabilities.
- Evaluating and managing the technical and commercial localization proposals in accordance with GAMI's guidelines and methodology.
- Drive program performance and manage program deliverables in alignment with the PMO methodologies.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive programs and projects documentation and progress reports ensuring having an integrated realization of the program’s key deliverables and goals.
- Leading, tracking, and reporting on program execution with financial, schedule, and scope accountability.
- Identify and manage the risks and issues within programs and projects and embed risk management processes and methodologies from the outset.
- Communicate regularly and effectively with all stakeholders, internally, OEMs, End users, Local partners, and others as required.
- Assist in the identification of strategic programs and projects.
- Developing an evaluation method to assess program strengths and identify areas for improvement.
- Managing both the dependencies and the interfaces between various programs.
- Develop, review, and approve programs and projects charter, road map, benefits realization, deliverables, resources, budget, and timing.
- Manage changes and interventions to the program scope, schedule, and cost using appropriate tools and techniques, to ensure program goals are achieved.
- Manage processes of defining programs and projects assumptions and all interactions with other programs in the organization to ensure optimum utilization of all available resources.
Manage, control and monitor the project so that it is delivered to agreed time, cost and quality requirements, regularly reviewing and reporting on progress against plan.
Ensure that all aspects of the project are fully defined to ensure customer requirements are achieved.
Liaise with all functions relevant to the delivery of assigned project elements and sub-projects to help build an integrated project team and to facilitate the achievement of project objectives.
Understand and strive to exceed the expectations of internal/external Customers and stakeholders.
Develop and maintain project plans and budgets which will deliver to customer and business needs, ensuring that these plans are consistent with overall programme needs, and that specific deadlines and milestones are agreed and communicated to all parties involved.
Identify, analyse and manage project risks and opportunities.
Conduct post-project appraisals (assessments) and ensure “lessons learned” spreading across other business teams.
Create Reporting Packs and delivery of Project Reports up through the business chain.
Ensure the project team possesses the required resources and capabilities to effectively deliver the project in line with all requirements and that staff are led, developed and motivated to ensure they are aware of and capable of meeting their accountabilities.
Manage the project to ensure that the project achieves all its objectives especially assigned relationships with major suppliers and sub-contractors to ensure all contracts are delivered and that issues are effectively addressed.
- Liaising with all company departments, supplier, customer and customer’s representatives to meet all contractual, to meet all contractual, delivery and specification requirements.
- Carrying out risk, requirements, and acceptance management activities.
- Generating of hazard analysis and safety case reports.
- Creating new processes and generating innovative solutions.
- Controlling all aspects of Training, Equipment, Personnel, Information, Doctrine and Concepts, Organisation, Infrastructure, Logistics of the project and make sure they are all maturely applied and implemented.(TEPIDOIL) Process
- Gaining full understanding of Life Cycle Management & Engineering Life Cycle by supporting the project Design Review Activities.
- Supporting and coordinating Engineering activities to meet the agreed project milestones and project schedule.
- Assisting in the preparation of test programmes and procedures and supporting the Final Acceptance Test (FAT) & Site Acceptance Test (SAT) of the package and equipments.
- Attending & supporting activities for the Customer’s Technical Configuration Control Board and other meetings / working groups associated with Capability development and insertion.
- Using own knowledge and expertise to support the specified project with creating and controlling the following:
• Acceptance, Test and Handover Plan (ATHP).
• Operational Readiness Review (ORR).
• Statement of Requirements & Work and Compliance Matrix.
• Engineering Management Plan (EMP).
• Assist & support the Engineering Manager in providing TRACE Letters, meeting actions and Technical requirements and queries.
- Familiarization with product assembly & the acceptance of the product by the customer. My role was to observe and investigate in all assembly stages and test of the product.
- Conducting & updating the safety process documents for the Salam safety team.
- Working with Airworthiness team to ensure a level of safety and performance to the Aircraft. Familiarization with the Release to Service (RTS) which is one of the main elements in Airworthiness.
- Maintains knowledge of procedure and tools of the department.
- Familiarization with work performed by manufacturing technician.
- Familiarization with manufacturing equipment operation and programming.
- Reads and interprets standard manufacturing technical data packages.
- Generates assembly and process documentations such as Work Instructions and manufacturing process instructions.
- Performs other related duties as assigned by manufacturing engineering
manager.
Studying a general Master Business Administration (MBA)