#CORE DIGITAL CAMPUS - Infrastructure Project Manager
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An opportunity for an Infrastructure Project Manager has arisen within Airbus Helicopters (Albacete, Spain)., You will be part of a team ensuring the efficient design, deployment, and evolution of Airbus Helicopters' Major IT infrastructure to support business needs, while maintaining security, performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. As part of the Architecture & Projects team (EIITP), you will act as a crucial link between our IT infrastructure teams and the wider business, supporting all new Digital and Business projects that require foundational IT deployment. This role is essential for enabling the company's digital transformation, ensuring that all new enterprise solutions, applications, and initiatives are underpinned by robust, reliable, and scalable infrastructure components (e.g., network upgrades, server deployments, hosting configuration, and new IT service implementation).
This position requires a senior-level professional adept at translating business needs into technical infrastructure requirements and driving the resulting projects to successful, timely completion., You will report directly to the EIITP (Enterprise Infrastructure and IT Projects) entity, which is dedicated to leading and executing architectural and project initiatives across our infrastructure domain., As the Project Manager for business and digital project enablement, you will be responsible for the full project lifecycle of infrastructure workstreams within larger corporate projects. Your main responsibilities will include:
- Project Planning & Tracking: Develop, monitor, and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, and action registers for all assigned infrastructure workstreams.
- Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identify, analyze, and mitigate project risks and issues, escalating critical items to relevant stakeholders and management as required.
- Methodology Compliance: Prepare and lead official project milestones in strict compliance with our internal project methodology standards.
- Actor Coordination: Coordinate and lead multidisciplinary teams, including internal IT teams, external vendors, business unit representatives, and technical experts.
- Budget Oversight: Track project expenditure and resource utilization against the approved budget, ensuring financial targets are met.
- Stakeholder Communication: Establish and maintain clear, consistent communication channels with all project stakeholders, providing regular progress updates and status reports.
Requirements
Is your profile aligned to the following list of skills? Apply! We are looking forward to know you:
- Project leadership: Minimum of 5 years of professional experience managing complex, cross divisional IT infrastructure projects, with a strong focus on Infrastructure deployments (network, server, cloud, or digital workplace).
- Technical Knowledge: Proven and very good knowledge of all core infrastructure components and technologies (e.g., LAN/WAN, Wi-Fi, virtualization, end-user computing, etc.).
- Communication: Demonstrated ability to manage expectations and communicate effectively with both technical teams and senior business leadership.
- Soft Skills: Strong leadership, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
The following qualifications could be a plus:
- Professional certification in Project Management (PMP, PRINCE2, etc.).
- Certification or practical experience with service management best practices (ITIL Foundation or higher).
- Prior experience supporting cross-functional business or digital transformation programs., This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company's success, reputation and sustainable growth.
Benefits & conditions
At Airbus we are focused on our employees and their welfare. Take a look at some of our social benefits:
- Vacation days plus additional days-off along the year (Apróx. 35 days per year in total).
- Attractive salary.
- Hybrid model of working: we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.
- Collective transport service subject to working calendar/home location.
- Benefits such as life insurance, health insurance, employee stock options, retirement plan, or study grants.
- On-site facilities (among others): free canteen, kindergarten, medical office.
- Possibility to collaborate in different social and corporate social responsibility initiatives.
- Excellent upskilling opportunities and great development prospects in a multicultural environment.
- Option to access special rates in products & benefits.