Program Manager, Advanced Aerospace Systems

Job Responsibilities

• Manage cost, schedule, and technical performance across assigned aerospace and defense programs.
• Develop and maintain integrated master schedules, budgets, resource plans, and program execution strategies.
• Lead cross-functional teams supporting engineering, manufacturing, integration, testing, flight operations, logistics, and sustainment activities.
• Identify program risks and develop mitigation plans to maintain execution objectives.
• Monitor program performance metrics and ensure successful achievement of technical, schedule, and financial milestones.
• Provide recurring status reporting to executive leadership on program health, risks, opportunities, and resource requirements.
• Support strategic planning and long-range business growth initiatives.

Technical Program Management

• Lead development, integration, production, and sustainment activities supporting advanced aerospace systems and unmanned aircraft platforms.
• Cookordination engineering development, testing, validation, qualification, and production readiness efforts.
• Coordinate ground testing, flight testing, customer demonstrations, and operational evaluations.
• Support airworthiness, safety, certification, and system qualification activities as required.
• Ensure program execution remains aligned with customer requirements and operational objectives.

Operations & Manufacturing Coordination

• Partner with manufacturing, quality, and supply chain teams to support production planning and scaling activities.
• Cookordinate vendor management, supplier performance, and long-lead procurement efforts.
• Support configuration management, quality assurance, and production process improvement initiatives.
• Drive recurring cost reduction and manufacturability improvements across assigned programs.
• Support transition of systems from development into low-rate and full-rate production.
• Assist with production forecasting, capacity planning, and operational execution activities.

Customer & Business Engagement

• Serve as primary customer interface for assigned programs.
• Lead program reviews, technical interchange meetings, integrated product team meetings, and customer briefings.
• Support proposal development, basis of estimates, rough-order-of-magnitude estimates, and capture activities.
• Aid business development efforts involving future growth opportunities and strategic pursuits.
• Cookordinate with Government customers, commercial partners, subcontractors, and suppliers as required.
• Support customer demonstrations, flight tests, operational evaluations, and industry events.

Financial & Portfolio Management

• Manage program budgets, forecasts, revenue plans, and resource requirements.
• Support program financial reviews and earned value-style performance tracking where applicable.
• Monitor contract performance and ensure execution remains aligned with customer funding profiles.
• Aid leadership in identifying growth opportunities and portfolio expansion initiatives.
• Support development of annual operating plans and strategic business objectives.