Senior Project Manager

About EDGE

Role overview

Program delivery and governance

• Lead delivery from program initiation through acceptance and operational handover.
• Maintain integrated plans, schedules, milestones, and resource forecasts; deliver to agreed scope, schedule, budget, quality, and contractual requirements.
• Establish governance, reporting, and decision-making processes; monitor performance and drive corrective actions.
• Manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, and change control.

Stakeholders and technical oversight

• Act as primary interface for customers, government stakeholders, partners, suppliers, and internal teams; align objectives and communicate status, risks, milestones, and decisions.
• Lead executive reviews, steering committees, governance boards, and customer engagements; support proposals, negotiations, and transitions.
• Coordinate engineering, systems engineering, mission operations, supply chain, quality, and commercial teams.
• Oversee requirements, interfaces, verification, validation, integration, testing, acceptance, readiness reviews, and operational handover.
• Coordinate satellite, payload, ground-segment, and external-partner workstreams where applicable.

Technology transfer and capability development

• Manage Technology Transfer and Transfer of Knowledge activities, including partner training, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing.
• Track contractual commitments and support sustainable in-country technical and operational capabilities.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, space systems engineering, electrical engineering, systems engineering, project management, or a related discipline.
• At least 8 years managing complex aerospace, defense, satellite, or space-related programs.
• Experience delivering large-scale technical programs and managing schedules, budgets, risks, resources, and contractual deliverables.
• Strong systems engineering knowledge, including requirements management, verification, validation, and configuration management.
• Customer-facing program and executive stakeholder-management experience; strong communication, leadership, negotiation, and relationship-management skills.

Preferred qualifications

• EO or SAR satellite program experience; experience in Earth Observation, remote sensing, GEOINT, ISR, satellite systems, payloads, ground segments, or mission operations.
• Technology Transfer, Transfer of Knowledge, training, capability-development, international space-partner, or government and defense customer experience.
• PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or equivalent project-management certification; a related master's degree.
• Knowledge of UAE government procurement, the UAE space and defense ecosystem, and national security space applications is preferred or advantageous.

Benefits and development

• EDGE describes learning and career-development opportunities, competitive tax-free salaries, and benefits that may include family visas, annual flight tickets, medical insurance, and education allowances, depending on role and seniority.