Job Summary
The Program Manager is responsible for overseeing programs, tracking their status, and leading conflict resolution to ensure said programs remain on plan, are delivered on time, and meet both customers’ expectations as well as the company’s revenue and profitability goals. This includes interfacing with sales and customers to provide updates and seek input as needed, and with engineering, operations, and quality to coordinate design, sourcing, prototyping, production, and shipping activities.

Duties & Responsibilities

Required Skills/Abilities:

• 10+ years relevant experience in Program Management and/or Operations Management of Aerospace and Defense programs.
• Bachelor’s Degree, Engineering Preferred.
• PMP Certifications preferred.
• This position requires up to 25% travel to customer sites, suppliers, and company facilities (domestic and international).
• Excellent customer relations skills.
• Demonstrated experience interfacing with customer’s engineering, subcontracts, program management, and executive management organizations.
• Understanding of defense-related avionics/electronics technology. Airborne recording, processing, and routing experience a plus.
• Understanding of and experience with all phases of mil/defense programs including design and development; Qual testing; SDRL’s; pilot production; rate production; and aftermarket support
• Understanding of DFAR’s and government contracting rules and requirements.
• Business development experience with major Aerospace and Defense Prime contractors and with DoD agencies (USAF, USN/USMC, Army, other). Experience on international Aerospace and Defense programs a plus.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating closely with internal engineering, finance, manufacturing, and supply chain cross-functional teams.
• MS Project understanding and scheduling experience.
• Understanding of the application of Earned Value Measurement (EVM) techniques.
• Experience assembling and evaluating complex bids and proposals, including non-recurring engineering, qual test, and recurring manufacturing content • Experience developing and tracking key performance metrics.

Personal Traits and Characteristics:

• Quality First: Plan & execute accurate, complete, timely and reliable work. Integrity never compromised.
• Respect for People: Appreciates and leverages diversity in experience, heritage, education, organization level and gender.
• Design by Fact: Gathers, analyzes and summarizes data to draw rational, fact-based conclusions.
• Blameless: Seeks root-cause solutions and fixes processes rather than finding someone to blame.
• Teamwork: Collaborative with customers, suppliers & associates at all levels towards mutual objectives.
• Sense of Urgency: High energy, bias for taking action. Spontaneously recognizes and resolves issues.
• Customer Focus: Makes customers a primary focus, develops and sustains loyal, productive relationships.
• Continuous Improvement: Develops and implements creative solutions to systems and processes.
• Deliver Results: Driven to deliver short and long-term results. Maintains focus on what’s most important.
• Adapting to Change: Able to effectively adapt to an environment of change, uncertainty, and ambiguity.
• Intellect: Understands the conceptual, strategic, tactical and technical aspects of an issue.
• Innovative: Generates and implements creative solutions. Challenges current methods and seeks alternatives.
• Work Group: Ability to work within a small, high-performance group.

Education and Experience:
MS/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or equivalent preferred.

Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, talk, see, and hear. The employee is frequently required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. This position requires travel of approximately 20%.

Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Office environment with temperature control; may be exposed to chemicals related to the manufacturing process. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

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