Mobile Test Site Project Manager

The role

The Mobile Test Site Project Manager owns the strategy, organization, readiness, and deployment of mobile test sites. This person will develop a roadmap for the program and ensure sites can be deployed safely and efficiently to capture specific environmental or operational edge cases.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain the roadmap for the mobile test site program.
• Translate engineering demand into an executable plan covering locations, schedules, equipment, staffing, maintenance, and site readiness.
• Lead mobile sites from concept through deployment, operation, and demobilization.
• Own location evaluation, site layouts, infrastructure requirements, logistics, vendor coordination, and deployment schedules.
• Establish scalable site designs and deployment standards.
• Manage the availability, condition, configuration, and allocation of each mobile installation.
• Partner with maintenance owners to create preventive and corrective maintenance programs.
• Create and improve standard operating procedures for site setup, operation, inspection, security, maintenance, and closeout.
• Own the safety and security framework for mobile sites.
• Conduct regular audits to verify established standards are being followed.

Required qualifications

• Significant project or program management experience in complex field operations, test operations, aviation, robotics, construction, logistics, or a similarly technical environment.
• Demonstrated ability to take an ambiguous operational need from initial concept through planning, deployment, execution, and closeout.
• Experience developing standardized procedures, readiness criteria, audit processes, and continuous-improvement systems.
• Strong working knowledge of operational safety, risk management, site security, equipment maintenance, and vendor coordination.
• Excellent cross-functional leadership and communication skills.
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly to prospective and active mobile test locations, including sites in remote or challenging environments.
• Ability and willingness to travel regularly, estimated at up to 50% of working time.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting flight test, aviation, autonomous systems, drones, aerospace, or other safety-critical operations.
• Experience developing temporary or mobile operating sites and coordinating infrastructure, permitting, utilities, communications, or site logistics.
• Familiarity with demand forecasting, asset management, preventive maintenance programs, and operational performance metrics.
• Project management certification or equivalent demonstrated experience leading complex, multi-site programs.

Benefits

• equity compensation
• overtime pay
• medical, dental and vision insurance
• paid time off

About the company

Zipline is the world’s largest and most experienced drone delivery service. They design, build, and operate an autonomous logistics system to deliver food, medicine and essential goods.