CRS Capital Equipment Project Manager
Cincinnati, OH
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As the CRS Capital Equipment Project Manager, you’ll lead standardization, risk management, procurement, installation, and maintenance methodology for capital equipment and automated systems across CRS. This role manages project timelines, budgets, vendor selection, and cross‑functional coordination with engineering and manufacturing to ensure equipment meets technical, safety, and production requirements. The manager will maintain equipment risk profiles that drive capital purchases, upgrades, and repairs, and will establish preventative maintenance standards to maximize asset life and availability. They will also identify and drive technology insertion opportunities in partnership with engineering and operations.
What you’ll do:
- Project Lifecycle Ownership: Manage equipment projects from initial need identification and specification to procurement, final commissioning, and operations handover.
- Project Management: Manage capital equipment projects from concept through installation, commissioning, and handover — schedules, budgets, milestones, and deliverables.
- Resource & Schedule Management: Develop detailed project schedules, allocate resources, and track key milestones using scheduling tools.
- Stakeholder & Vendor Coordination: Serve as the primary point of contact for engineers, operations, procurement and external equipment suppliers to source components and manage lead times; lead procurement and vendor management including RFQs, evaluation, and contract execution.
- Budget & BOM Control: Oversee project finances and bill-of-materials (BOM) accuracy; ensure estimates cover procurement and installation to produce high-fidelity numbers for the CRS Capital Plan.
- Standardization: Standardize equipment and processes across CRS to reduce variance, cost, and downtime.
- Risk Management: Develop and maintain equipment risk profiles that inform purchase upgrade, repair decisions, and capital allocation.
- Preventative Maintenance & Lifecycle: Define and implement preventative maintenance methodologies, spare parts strategies, and lifecycle cost analyses to maximize asset uptime and life.
- Quality & Safety Assurance: Ensure all equipment complies with industry safety standards (e.g., LOTO, OSHA) and site safety practices prior to turning over to production.
- Continuous Improvement & Technology Insertion: Drive continuous improvement and technology insertion, evaluating automation and hardware upgrades for productivity, safety, and reliability gains.
- Documentation & Training: Create technical documentation: installation plans, maintenance procedures, acceptance criteria, and training materials.
- Cross‑functional Coordination: Coordinate engineering, manufacturing, operations, quality, and safety to ensure technical and regulatory compliance.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Industrial Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years’ experience managing capital equipment projects in manufacturing or MRO environments (procurement, vendor management, installation, commissioning).
- 3+ years of demonstrated project management skills, including schedule and budget control.
- 3+ years of experience managing equipment lifecycle, preventative maintenance, and equipment-related risk management activities as well as developing technical documentation, including procedures, routings, and/or technical specifications.
Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25%.
Desired Skills:
- Experience using CAD and/or 3D modeling software for tooling or fixture design.
- Experience with precision measurement, equipment commissioning practices, and manufacturing inspection criteria.
- Experience with thermal spray, CNC machining, tool & die design/manufacture, or similar specialized processes.
- Experience in aerospace MRO or regulated manufacturing environments.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams in a manufacturing, production, or MRO environment.
- PMP or similar certification.
Benefits that make life better:
- Comprehensive healthcare
- 401(k) with company match; up to 5% vested
- Paid Time Off starting on day one
- Bonus opportunities
- Health- & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Short- & Long-Term Disability
- Life & AD&D Insurance
- Learning & Training opportunities
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Industrial Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 3+ years' experience managing capital equipment projects in manufacturing or MRO environments (procurement, vendor management, installation, commissioning).
- 3+ years of demonstrated project management skills, including schedule and budget control.
- 3+ years of experience managing equipment lifecycle, preventative maintenance, and equipment-related risk management activities; developing technical documentation, procedures, routings, or specifications.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25%.
- Experience using CAD and/or 3D modeling software for tooling or fixture design.
- Experience with precision measurement, equipment commissioning practices, and manufacturing inspection criteria.
- Experience with thermal spray, CNC machining, tool & die design/manufacture, or similar specialized processes.
- Experience in aerospace MRO or regulated manufacturing environments.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams in a manufacturing, production, or MRO environment.
- PMP or similar certification.
StandardAero Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about StandardAero and has not been reviewed or approved by StandardAero.
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Retirement Support — Provides a 401(k) and has added an Employee Stock Purchase Plan and an Incentive Award (equity) plan, expanding long-term savings and ownership options. These programs complement base pay with additional wealth-building mechanisms.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Includes PTO, paid holidays, sick time, bereavement leave, military leave, and parental leave, with some roles accruing PTO that can increase with service. Eligibility for benefits typically begins the first day of the month after hire, indicating structured access to time-off programs.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Offers tuition assistance, job training/conferences, company events, and an Employee Assistance Program as part of a comprehensive package. The inclusion of learning support and EAP provides development and wellbeing resources beyond core insurance and retirement.
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What We Do
StandardAero has become one of the aerospace industry’s largest independent maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) providers. Our company’s success is the outgrowth of the synergistic merger of businesses with complementary specialties that have exponentially increased our capabilities and generated unprecedented customer commitment and value. StandardAero offers extensive MRO services and custom solutions for business aviation, commercial aviation, military, and industrial power customers. Nearly 6,600 professional, administrative and technical employees work in more than 50 major facilities worldwide, with additional strategically located regional service and support centers all across the globe. Services include MRO for aircraft and rotorcraft engines, auxiliary power units, components; airframe services including major alterations; FAA authorized avionics capabilities; comprehensive engineering services; and custom exterior and interior design, completion, and paint. We provide these capabilities through our network of specialized facilities and mobile service teams. StandardAero is owned by Carlyle, a global investment firm with deep industry expertise that deploys private capital across four business segments: Corporate Private Equity, Real Assets, Global Credit, and Investment Solutions.
