The Program Manager, reporting to the Director of Programs, will be responsible for program leadership, commitment to program success, and building relationships with customers and key suppliers, while meeting all cost, schedule and technical requirements of the program.

Job Description:

The Program Manager will perform all or some of the following Job description:

• The Program Manager will manage and lead a matrixed team of dedicated professionals on the successful execution of small ($10M to $20M) and medium ($20M to $50M) fixed priced system programs

• Support the development of new business growth strategies with the MRO organization related to assigned program and products

• Provide support to Business Development in pursuit of new opportunities

• Continually monitor program performance (technical, cost and schedule) on a weekly basis through Program Management Meetings (PMM)

• The Program Manager will maintain the Risks and Opportunities register and execute plans to retire and capture identified Risks and Opportunities

• Demonstrate the use of Continuous Improvement (CI) tools within the business

• The Program Manager will support RFP response efforts overseeing the development of specifications, statements of work, WBS, cost estimating, risk and opportunity analysis, proposal response preparation, and bid approval and submission

• Develop detailed program plans that cover contract deliverables, program milestones, requirements, payment schedules, subcontracts definition, technical work description, staffing, integrated master schedules, and budgets

• The Program Manager will monitor and maintain established Earn Value Management system metrics for assigned programs.   

• The Program Manager should have three to five years of Program Management /Project Leadership experience successfully developing and delivering technically based advance systems (preferably electro-optic) to defense organizations
• Excellent skills in developing customer relationships and fostering co-operation between multiple foreign, domestic and civilian customer communities
• Excellent organizational mentoring and leadership skills in a matrixed environment
• The Program Manager should possess strong written and oral communication skills
• Working knowledge of Earned Value management
• The Program Manager should be able to support approximately 20-30% foreign and domestic travel
• He/She must be able to plan, organize and control assigned programs from conceptual development to final stages of production.

• Bachelor's degree in an Engineering discipline
• Master's degree preferred
• PMI certification preferred.