Program Director

About the role

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a GDIT Program Manager. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. Our customer’s success depends on an experienced Program Manager joining our team to oversee a mission-critical satellite ground system engineering, development, integration, and sustainment program for the U.S. Space Force in Albuquerque, NM.

Responsibilities

• Oversee scheduling, resourcing, asset inventory, risk, performance quality to optimize organizational efficiencies, drive performance management, and ensure continual service improvement and innovation efforts across the project life cycle
• Ensure customer outcomes are achieved while addressing opportunities to increase quality, reduce cost, and minimize risk
• Provide expertise in business process and system analysis, design, improvement, and implementation efforts
• Manage employee compensation and benefits
• Maintain Communications and Stakeholder Engagement plan
• Cook with key Customer stakeholders to fully understand Customer requirements, expected outcomes, and areas of concern

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 10 years of increasing leadership experience managing progressively larger and more complex DoW contracts up to $200M or Retired Military Leader (ML) having held a Branch Chief position managing $200M budget and associated contracts
• Experience managing high op-tempo mission sustainment programs with system engineering, system integration, operations, and logistics support functions
• Experience with National Space Enterprise customers is a plus
• Experience implementing model-based system engineering practices and cloud-based Command and Control software systems is a plus

Skills

• Agile & Scrum Methodologies
• Budgeting & Financial Planning
• Risk Management & Assessment
• Stakeholder Communication
• Performance Tracking (KPIs)
• Project Management Software
• Process Improvement
• Problem Thinking & Critical Thinking
• Collaboration & Teamwork
• Leadership & Mentorship
• Adaptability and Flexibility
• Conflict Resolution & Negotiation

Benefits

GDIT offers a comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, including a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. Other offerings include short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance.

Pay

The likely salary range for this position is $169,604 - $229,464. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Schedule

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Travel Required: 10-25%

Telecommuting Options: Onsite Work Location: USA NM Albuquerque

Total Rewards: At GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.