501602 Development and Modernization Air Vehicle Project Lead
Work Location: Huntsville, Alabama
Schedule: Full Time
Relocation: Negotiable
IronMountain Solutions is seeking a highly motivated Project Lead to support the Development and Modernization Air Vehicle Team for the UH-60 Black Hawk program within Utility Helicopter. This position requires a unique blend of maintainer experience, programmatic leadership, and hands-on technical understanding of airframe and electrical systems.
The ideal candidate is a self-starter who has fifteen (15) years of relevant employment, is comfortable operating with minimal supervision, interfacing directly with government stakeholders, and briefing technical and programmatic information to leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Support development, modernization, and sustainment efforts for the UH-60 Black Hawk air vehicle
- Lead and coordinate programmatic activities across engineering, maintenance, logistics, and test organizations
- Serve as a primary interface with government PMOs, engineering leads, and aviation stakeholders
- Develop and maintain schedules, risk registers, action trackers, and program status metrics
- Translate maintainer and engineering inputs into actionable program recommendations
- Proactively identify integration challenges, maintenance impacts, and air vehicle risks and drive mitigation actions to closure
Required Qualifications
- Prior experience as an aircraft maintainer, preferably on UH-60 Black Hawk or similar rotary-wing platforms
- Strong understanding of aircraft maintenance practices, technical manuals, and operational impacts of design changes
- Ability to represent maintainer and operational perspectives during development and modernization efforts
- Demonstrated experience supporting DoD aviation programs, preferably involving the Black Hawk platform
- Experience coordinating program execution activities in support of cost, schedule, and technical objectives
- Familiarity with government PMO processes, IPT participation, and program reviews
- Working knowledge of airframe structures and electrical systems
- Ability to understand engineering drawings, system architectures, and integration impacts
- Experience collaborating with engineering teams to assess design changes, modifications, and modernization efforts
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated experience preparing and delivering briefings to government and senior leadership
- Proficient in Microsoft PowerPoint, including development of technical and programmatic charts
- Highly motivated, self-directed individual capable of operating with minimal supervision
- Proven ability to independently manage tasks, prioritize workload, and drive actions to completion
- Comfortable working in dynamic environments with evolving requirements
Clearance: Active or ability to obtain DoD Secret (or higher)
Desired Experience and Education
- Experience supporting Black Hawk modernization, modifications, or upgrades
- Familiarity with airworthiness, configuration management, and aircraft certification processes
- Background supporting fielded aircraft systems and operational units
- Bachelors degree in engineering, Aviation Maintenance, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience preferred but not required)
IronMountain Solutions is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer
