Staff Program Manager - Comac C919

Posted:
2/26/2026, 5:47:51 AM

Location(s):
England, United Kingdom ⋅ Tewkesbury, England, United Kingdom

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Product

Moog is a performance culture that empowers people to achieve great things. Our people enjoy solving interesting technical challenges in a culture where everyone trusts each other to do the right thing. For you, working with us can mean deeper job satisfaction, better rewards, and a great quality of life inside and outside of work.

Job Title:

Staff Program Manager - Comac C919

Reporting To:

GM, Business Unit

Work Schedule:

Hybrid – Tewkesbury, GBR

Staff Programme Manager

Role summary
The |Staff Programme Manager for Comac C919 manages day-to-day execution and continuous delivery of Moog products in the production phase. This role is accountable for customer relationship management, meeting cost-to-plan targets, driving demand flow down to sites, resolving escalated issues, and coordinating cross-functional teams to ensure product quality, on-time delivery and contract compliance through the full production lifecycle.

Core responsibilities

  • Production program execution: Manage program performance against production schedules, quality, cost and delivery targets.
  • Customer account management: Act as primary customer contact for production issues, delivery coordination, routine commercial interactions and performance reporting; maintain high customer satisfaction and manage expectations.
  • Cost-to-plan and financial performance: Drive cost-to-plan initiatives, support margin preservation actions, manage forecasts and report earned-value/financial status.
  • Demand flow down & site coordination: Translate program requirements into site-level demand, lead demand flow down and ensure production sites have required planning, materials and capacity to meet program needs.
  • Cross-functional coordination: Coordinate manufacturing, supply chain, engineering, quality, test, logistics and sustainment to remove blockers and optimize throughput.
  • Escalation & issue resolution: Own resolution of escalated production, supply or quality issues impacting program performance; lead root-cause actions and corrective plans with stakeholders.
  • Change & configuration control: Manage engineering change requests impacting production, ensure configuration control, and align stakeholders on implementation plans.
  • Supplier & subcontractor management: Partner with the Supply Chain team to ensure monitoring of supplier performance, to drive on-time delivery and quality recovery actions, and to support contractual remedies as needed.
  • Compliance & safety: Partner with Quality team to ensure production activities comply with customer specifications, applicable regulatory standards, company policies and safety requirements; support audits and quality events.
  • Reporting & governance: Produce clear, concise program status reports and decision packages for Program Director; participate in various internal programs reviews.

Key deliverables / success metrics
 

  • On-time delivery and meeting production rate commitments.
  • Achievement of cost-to-plan targets and acceptable cost/schedule variance.
  • Successful demand flow down with minimal site disruptions and material shortages.
  • Timely resolution of escalations and measurable reduction in repeat issues.
  • Low production quality non-conformances and high first-pass yield.
  • Strong customer satisfaction and adherence to contractual commitments.

Core skills & competencies
 

  • Program & schedule management: Understanding of IMS, MS Project or equivalent and EVM basics.
  • Technical understanding: Ability to lead technical trade-offs with engineering teams.
  • Communication & stakeholder management: Clear communicator with strong customer-facing and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Risk & issue management: Proactive identification, escalation and mitigation of risks and issues.
  • Negotiation: Practical experience in commercial negotiation and supporting contractual actions.
  • Decision orientation: Data-driven, accountable and results-oriented.

Reporting & organizational context
 

  • Reports to: Program Director
  • Interfaces: Typically leads and coordinates with cross-functional team members (engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, quality, finance, legal & contracts. Direct interface with Site Program Managers and customer representatives.

Minimum qualifications to be considered

Staff Program Manager:

  • Typically, Bachelor’s degree in engineering or business
  • Minimum of ten (10) years of professional work experience, preferably in aerospace and engineering
  • Minimum six (6) years of Program Management work experience
  • Project Management Professional certificate is a plus