Jobs at LifePort, Inc.

Provides inside sales and aftermarket support for aerospace products, managing customer contacts, sales presentations, quotes, orders, telemarketing, and internet sales. Analyzes customer needs, promotes products, supports sales forecasts, provides product instruction, and coordinates with production, shipping, warehouse, and carriers to expedite orders. Maintains product knowledge, investigates applications, initiates purchase requisitions, and supplies market intelligence to sales management.

Manages customer aerospace programs and projects from initiation through delivery, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, and customer commitments are met. Leads matrixed cross-functional teams, maintains master schedules, manages risks, issues, changes, resources, and project reporting, and coordinates with customers, stakeholders, and government agencies. Requires proficiency in Microsoft Project and Office, experience with export compliance, DoD contracts, classified programs, and risk management. The role requires a U.S. Person for export-control compliance.

Develops and grows LifePort’s defense business across DoD, federal, allied, FMS, and aerospace customers. Builds senior stakeholder relationships, identifies and qualifies opportunities, maps requirements to funding and acquisition pathways, leads capture and proposal strategies, and converts mission needs into funded pursuits. Coordinates engineering, finance, contracts, operations, partners, and leadership while supporting export-control compliance, customer engagements, forecasting, teaming, negotiations, and follow-on growth. Travel may reach 50% domestically and internationally.

Leads the engineering team responsible for designing and developing aircraft interior cabinetry and galley systems. Oversees product development from concept through production, ensuring safety, manufacturability, certification, quality, cost, and schedule requirements. Manages engineers and designers, resolves technical and manufacturing issues, supports continuous improvement, coordinates cross-functional programs, manages budgets and capacity, and ensures compliance with FAA, military, customer, and company requirements.

Leads aerospace cabinetry and interior product engineering projects from concept through delivery. Responsibilities include CAD modeling, drafting, BOM creation, requirements and test plan development, prototype testing, design validation, certification support, vendor coordination, manufacturing liaison, schedule and budget tracking, technical presentations, design reviews, and mentoring junior engineers.

Administers enterprise infrastructure, servers, networks, databases, applications, and integrations. Designs and tests workflow and system solutions, develops automation using PowerShell, T-SQL, and .NET, supports ERP and manufacturing applications, coordinates vendors and releases, maintains security controls for DFARS, NIST SP 800-171, and CMMC Level 2, and serves as a senior escalation point for incidents, upgrades, migrations, and projects.

Designs and improves manufacturing processes, tooling, fixtures, production layouts, operational procedures, and testing plans for metallic and composite aerospace products. Supports production and engineering teams, investigates quality issues, develops statistical process controls, creates CAD models and drawings, and ensures compliance with aerospace quality and certification standards. The role also provides manufacturing liaison support and assists with material and mechanical testing.

Manage and grow customer accounts in aerospace/defense by building relationships, cold calling commercial and government contacts, preparing bids/quotes, negotiating contracts, forecasting sales, coordinating with engineers and factory, presenting to executives and senior military, and traveling up to 50%.