Program Manager - Aerospace

Key Responsibilities

• Manage overall program performance in terms of time, cost, and quality, ensuring accountability for successful delivery.
• Lead the creation of program plans, schedules, work breakdown structures, budgets, and risk mitigation strategies, enabling functional teams to execute effectively.
• Ensure development programs are adequately planned at both business and functional levels to meet business case and customer contract objectives.
• Apply core planning principles, including requirements planning, deliverables definition, milestone tracking, risk management, resource allocation, and critical path scheduling.
• Oversee the monitoring and control phase of program execution with robust management systems and cross-functional team collaboration.
• Implement scope, schedule, and cost baseline change controls.
• Develop, maintain, and manage internal performance scorecards for both development and production programs.
• Lead new product introduction phases to ensure successful transition from development to production and customer service.
• Utilize gated control and approval processes throughout the product lifecycle.
• Ensure strong customer scorecard performance and manage internal performance metrics accordingly.
• Lead efforts to identify and improve upon performance variances from business case objectives.
• Drive "get to green" or recovery efforts for scorecard performance variances through team leadership.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with customers and subcontractors to foster collaborative working environments.
• Serve as the primary customer interface for development, production, and sustainment programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience.
• Program Management Professional (PMP) Certification required.