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Project Development Manager jobs in Los Angeles are concentrated in entertainment and media, construction and real estate development, and technology, with activity centered in Century City, Downtown LA, and Culver City. Employers hiring right now include Citadel CPM, Jamison Properties, and Cushman & Wakefield. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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Supply Chain Development Project Manager
Remote in Los Angeles, CA
At Gulfstream, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We believe in inspiring and empowering every individual to reach their fullest potential. From workforce development and meaningful connections to a culture of trust, respect, and integrity, we invest in our employees so they can do their best work and achieve success together. Creating and delivering the world's finest aviation experience starts with our people and when our people thrive, so does our mission.
Are you passionate about improving manufacturing performance and building strong supplier partnerships? As a Supply Chain Development Project Manager, you will serve as a key liaison between Gulfstream and one of our major suppliers in the Los Angeles area. You will lead supply chain improvement efforts, solve complex operational challenges, and help ensure suppliers can meet production demands while delivering quality products on time. This is a highly visible role with significant impact across the business and expected regional travel of up to 75%.
What You Will Do
- Serve as the primary Gulfstream contact for major supplier(s) in the Los Angeles area.
- Lead supplier assessments to evaluate production readiness, capacity, and operational performance.
- Identify improvement opportunities and drive action plans through completion.
- Partner with suppliers to improve delivery performance, quality, lead times, and overall efficiency.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives using Lean and Six Sigma principles.
- Analyze supplier operations, production planning, materials management, capacity planning, and workflow processes.
- Support supplier transition plans while minimizing impact to Gulfstream production schedules.
- Facilitate daily operational meetings, recovery plans, and milestone reviews with suppliers and internal teams.
- Act as a liaison between suppliers and Gulfstream stakeholders to ensure clear communication and issue resolution.
- Develop and monitor performance metrics, capacity plans, training plans, and project plans.
- Identify root causes of operational challenges and implement sustainable corrective actions.
- Coach and mentor suppliers and team members in problem-solving and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Support the most critical supplier and supply chain challenges across the business.
The annual base compensation range for this role is $106,817 - $124,620
Final compensation for this role will be determined by several factors including but not limited to: minimum and preferred qualifications, knowledge, skills, abilities, education, experience, and location.
Gulfstream employees benefit from a total rewards package that includes competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits plans, wellness programs, paid leave and tuition assistance. Our U.S. benefits package includes:
- Medical, prescription, dental and vision coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Retirement savings plan
- Employee assistance plan
- Voluntary programs such as adoption assistance, prepaid legal assistance, home and auto insurance, and accident insurance.
What You Will Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations, Supply Chain, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Six (6) years of operational and/or supply chain experience.
- Strong knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Experience leading projects and driving measurable business results.
- Ability to analyze complex manufacturing and supply chain challenges and develop practical solutions.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience working directly with suppliers and cross-functional teams.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and related business applications.
- Ability to travel extensively, including more than 75% travel as business needs require.
- Preferred: Experience in manufacturing environments and manufacturing processes.
- Preferred: Lean or Six Sigma certification.
- Preferred: Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, or related operational experience.
Why Gulfstream
- Make a direct impact on supplier performance and production success.
- Lead meaningful projects with visibility across the organization.
- Work closely with suppliers to solve real-world operational challenges.
- Collaborate with talented teams focused on continuous improvement and innovation.
- Grow your leadership, project management, and supply chain expertise.
- Build a rewarding career supporting the world's finest aviation products.
Apply Now
If you are ready to help strengthen supplier partnerships, drive continuous improvement, and support operational excellence, we encourage you to apply today. Join Gulfstream and help us fulfill our mission to create and deliver the world's finest aviation experience.
Education and Experience Requirements
Job Description
- Lead elements of assessments to determine suppliers ability to meet production rates. Identify and drive closer of improvement opportunities .
- Utilize standardized assessment tools, identify opportunities of improvement in the operational areas of maintenance management, production control, materials planning, system analysis, productivity analysis and cost control, production planning, productivity, capacity planning and analysis, managing suppliers, machining and assembly, internal quality control, and other lean manufacturing principles .
- Provide oversight and guidance to suppliers and drive actions that address opportunities and validate that the action is implemented and shows marked measured improvement .
- Through continuous improvement measure the supply chain by gathering standardized leading indicator metrics that facilitate the ability to proactively address negative trends that may adversely affect delivery performance .
- Lead suppliers through transition planning and execution with minimal impact to the companys production line.
- Provide on-site support to the Supply Chain, Operations and Logistics .
- Act as a liaison between suppliers and internal functional areas to ensure information, documentation and product flow meet objectives.
- Work with the suppliers to identify Operational, Supply Chain and Quality constraints while providing value added process improvements to reduce supplier cycle times to meet program deadlines .
- Coordinate, chair and lead daily operational meetings and conference calls with suppliers to provide critical milestone plans, recovery actions and information to purchasing when required.
- Assist the suppliers in the development of performance metrics, capacity plans, employee training matrices, milestone plans and project plans.
- Develop, coach and mentor problem solving skills. Create problem solvers within the organization .
- Participate and lead joint continuous improvement events .
- Establish methods that identify and/or track root causes and provide corrective action .
- Computer literate, MS Office, various software apps.
- Project management skills with working knowledge of the principles of analytical problem solving techniques.
- Mfg and Industrial eng experience preferred.
Additional Information
Requisition Number: 236786
Category: Materials
Percentage of Travel: Up to 75%
Shift: First
Employment Type: Full-time
Posting End Date: 10/30/2026
Gulfstream does not provide work visa sponsorship for this position, unless the applicant is a currently sponsored Gulfstream employee.
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Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), designs, develops, manufactures, markets, services and supports the world's most technologically-advanced business jet aircraft
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Supply Chain Development Project Manager
Remote in Los Angeles, CA
At Gulfstream, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We believe in inspiring and empowering every individual to reach their fullest potential. From workforce development and meaningful connections to a culture of trust, respect, and integrity, we invest in our employees so they can do their best work and achieve success together. Creating and delivering the world's finest aviation experience starts with our people and when our people thrive, so does our mission.
Are you passionate about improving manufacturing performance and building strong supplier partnerships? As a Supply Chain Development Project Manager, you will serve as a key liaison between Gulfstream and one of our major suppliers in the Los Angeles area. You will lead supply chain improvement efforts, solve complex operational challenges, and help ensure suppliers can meet production demands while delivering quality products on time. This is a highly visible role with significant impact across the business and expected regional travel of up to 75%.
What You Will Do
- Serve as the primary Gulfstream contact for major supplier(s) in the Los Angeles area.
- Lead supplier assessments to evaluate production readiness, capacity, and operational performance.
- Identify improvement opportunities and drive action plans through completion.
- Partner with suppliers to improve delivery performance, quality, lead times, and overall efficiency.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives using Lean and Six Sigma principles.
- Analyze supplier operations, production planning, materials management, capacity planning, and workflow processes.
- Support supplier transition plans while minimizing impact to Gulfstream production schedules.
- Facilitate daily operational meetings, recovery plans, and milestone reviews with suppliers and internal teams.
- Act as a liaison between suppliers and Gulfstream stakeholders to ensure clear communication and issue resolution.
- Develop and monitor performance metrics, capacity plans, training plans, and project plans.
- Identify root causes of operational challenges and implement sustainable corrective actions.
- Coach and mentor suppliers and team members in problem-solving and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Support the most critical supplier and supply chain challenges across the business.
The annual base compensation range for this role is $106,817 - $124,620
Final compensation for this role will be determined by several factors including but not limited to: minimum and preferred qualifications, knowledge, skills, abilities, education, experience, and location.
Gulfstream employees benefit from a total rewards package that includes competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits plans, wellness programs, paid leave and tuition assistance. Our U.S. benefits package includes:
- Medical, prescription, dental and vision coverage
- Life and disability insurance
- Retirement savings plan
- Employee assistance plan
- Voluntary programs such as adoption assistance, prepaid legal assistance, home and auto insurance, and accident insurance.
What You Will Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations, Supply Chain, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Six (6) years of operational and/or supply chain experience.
- Strong knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Experience leading projects and driving measurable business results.
- Ability to analyze complex manufacturing and supply chain challenges and develop practical solutions.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience working directly with suppliers and cross-functional teams.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and related business applications.
- Ability to travel extensively, including more than 75% travel as business needs require.
- Preferred: Experience in manufacturing environments and manufacturing processes.
- Preferred: Lean or Six Sigma certification.
- Preferred: Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, or related operational experience.
Why Gulfstream
- Make a direct impact on supplier performance and production success.
- Lead meaningful projects with visibility across the organization.
- Work closely with suppliers to solve real-world operational challenges.
- Collaborate with talented teams focused on continuous improvement and innovation.
- Grow your leadership, project management, and supply chain expertise.
- Build a rewarding career supporting the world's finest aviation products.
Apply Now
If you are ready to help strengthen supplier partnerships, drive continuous improvement, and support operational excellence, we encourage you to apply today. Join Gulfstream and help us fulfill our mission to create and deliver the world's finest aviation experience.
Education and Experience Requirements
Job Description
- Lead elements of assessments to determine suppliers ability to meet production rates. Identify and drive closer of improvement opportunities .
- Utilize standardized assessment tools, identify opportunities of improvement in the operational areas of maintenance management, production control, materials planning, system analysis, productivity analysis and cost control, production planning, productivity, capacity planning and analysis, managing suppliers, machining and assembly, internal quality control, and other lean manufacturing principles .
- Provide oversight and guidance to suppliers and drive actions that address opportunities and validate that the action is implemented and shows marked measured improvement .
- Through continuous improvement measure the supply chain by gathering standardized leading indicator metrics that facilitate the ability to proactively address negative trends that may adversely affect delivery performance .
- Lead suppliers through transition planning and execution with minimal impact to the companys production line.
- Provide on-site support to the Supply Chain, Operations and Logistics .
- Act as a liaison between suppliers and internal functional areas to ensure information, documentation and product flow meet objectives.
- Work with the suppliers to identify Operational, Supply Chain and Quality constraints while providing value added process improvements to reduce supplier cycle times to meet program deadlines .
- Coordinate, chair and lead daily operational meetings and conference calls with suppliers to provide critical milestone plans, recovery actions and information to purchasing when required.
- Assist the suppliers in the development of performance metrics, capacity plans, employee training matrices, milestone plans and project plans.
- Develop, coach and mentor problem solving skills. Create problem solvers within the organization .
- Participate and lead joint continuous improvement events .
- Establish methods that identify and/or track root causes and provide corrective action .
- Computer literate, MS Office, various software apps.
- Project management skills with working knowledge of the principles of analytical problem solving techniques.
- Mfg and Industrial eng experience preferred.
Additional Information
Requisition Number: 236786
Category: Materials
Percentage of Travel: Up to 75%
Shift: First
Employment Type: Full-time
Posting End Date: 10/30/2026
Gulfstream does not provide work visa sponsorship for this position, unless the applicant is a currently sponsored Gulfstream employee.
Legal Information | Site Utilities | Contacts | Sitemap
Copyright © 2025 Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation. All Rights Reserved. A General Dynamics Company.
Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), designs, develops, manufactures, markets, services and supports the world's most technologically-advanced business jet aircraft
#LI-JRJ #GulfstreamCareers #SupplyChainJobs #ProjectManagement #LeanManufacturing #SixSigma #OperationsManagement #ContinuousImprovement #ManufacturingCareers #AerospaceJobs
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Project Development Manager Jobs in Los Angeles: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a project development manager job in Los Angeles?
Focus your search on Los Angeles's strongest hiring sectors: entertainment production, commercial real estate development, and technology. Roles concentrate in Downtown LA, Century City, El Segundo, and the Westside. Candidates who combine project management credentials such as a PMP with industry-specific experience in film, construction, or tech tend to stand out. Networking through local trade associations and development conferences gives a real edge in this market.
Which companies hire project development managers in Los Angeles?
Los Angeles project development manager roles are posted by Citadel CPM, Jamison Properties, and Cushman & Wakefield and others right now, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of October 2026. The mix tends to include major studios, commercial developers, municipal agencies, and technology firms, reflecting the breadth of Los Angeles's project-driven economy.
Are there remote project development manager jobs in Los Angeles?
Yes, though it depends on the industry, since project development management often requires on-site coordination, particularly in construction and production. About 29% of project development manager openings tied to Los Angeles are remote or hybrid as of October 2026, with the most flexibility found in technology and corporate strategy roles where the work is primarily analytical and stakeholder-facing.
How can I get a project development manager job in Los Angeles with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path in Los Angeles is moving up from a project coordinator or project analyst role, which are plentiful across the city's entertainment studios, real estate developers, and infrastructure agencies. Entry-level candidates who build familiarity with project management software, contribute to smaller-scale developments, or complete internships with local firms like construction companies or production studios tend to advance fastest in this market.
Which industries hire the most project development managers in Los Angeles?
Los Angeles project development manager roles concentrate in Non-Profit & Social Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of October 2026. This reflects Los Angeles's position as a national center for entertainment production, one of the largest construction markets in the country, and a growing hub for technology and infrastructure investment.
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