Program Manager

About the role

The Program Manager will support the Aero Text Program in the St. Louis, Missouri area. This is an exciting opportunity to use your program leadership, aeronautical mission expertise, technical modernization experience, and customer engagement skills to support a mission-critical safety-of-navigation program.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution of a mission-critical, safety-of-navigation aeronautical production program, ensuring performance across cost, schedule, staffing, quality, risk, customer satisfaction, and contract objectives.
• Execute the program in accordance with Leidos program execution policy, contract requirements, customer expectations, and applicable operational standards.
• Maintain delivery discipline in a high-availability production environment requiring 99.9% uptime, ensuring continuity of operations and schedule performance for critical aeronautical products and services.
• Serve as the primary customer-facing program leader, partnering with customer stakeholders to align program execution with mission priorities, operational requirements, and evolving aeronautical needs.
• Direct multidisciplinary teams supporting aeronautical product finishing, production, software development, sustainment, modernization, source processing, content exploitation, digital coding, tasking, and related mission delivery workflows.
• Recruit, develop, mentor, and retain a high-performing workforce while overseeing staffing levels, skills mix, succession planning, surge capacity, and resource allocation for a Firm Fixed Price program environment.
• Drive operational excellence through process optimization, automation, workflow improvement, data quality initiatives, cycle-time reduction, production efficiency, and continuous improvement.
• Lead development, testing, deployment, sustainment, and modernization activities while translating customer requirements into executable program strategies, technical solutions, staffing plans, and delivery priorities.
• Support business growth by identifying expansion opportunities, contributing to capture and recompete efforts, positioning Leidos for follow-on or adjacent mission work, and fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, employee engagement, and customer trust.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years of direct related experience.
• Additionally, 2+ years of experience supervising or leading teams/projects.
• Current and active TS/SCI clearance.
• Program management experience leading complex federal, Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, aviation, geospatial, aeronautical, production, or mission-critical operational programs.
• Demonstrated experience managing program execution across cost, schedule, staffing, quality, risk, customer satisfaction, and contract performance in a customer-facing environment.
• Experience leading delivery with senior government stakeholders in a mission-critical environment.
• Demonstrated understanding of aeronautical, aviation, geospatial, safety-of-navigation, or comparable mission operations.
• Experience leading technical, operational, production, or multidisciplinary teams in a high-reliability environment.
• Experience supporting development, sustainment, modernization, process improvement, automation, workflow optimization, or technical transformation initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain delivery performance in a fixed-price, schedule-driven, or high-accountability contract environment.
• Ability to work in or regularly support the St. Louis, Missouri area, including Leidos and customer locations, as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years of direct related experience.
• Additionally, 2+ years of experience supervising or leading teams/projects.
• Current and active TS/SCI clearance.
• Program management experience leading complex federal, Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, aviation, geospatial, aeronautical, production, or mission-critical operational programs.
• Demonstrated experience managing program execution across cost, schedule, staffing, quality, risk, customer satisfaction, and contract performance in a customer-facing environment.
• Experience leading delivery with senior government stakeholders in a mission-critical environment.
• Demonstrated understanding of aeronautical, aviation, geospatial, safety-of-navigation, or comparable mission operations.
• Experience leading technical, operational, production, or multidisciplinary teams in a high-reliability environment.
• Experience supporting development, sustainment, modernization, process improvement, automation, workflow optimization, or technical transformation initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain delivery performance in a fixed-price, schedule-driven, or high-accountability contract environment.
• Ability to work in or regularly support the St. Louis, Missouri area, including Leidos and customer locations, as required.

Skills

• Program management experience.
• Aeronautical mission expertise.
• Technical modernization experience.
• Customer engagement skills.
• Leadership and management experience.
• Operational excellence.
• Process optimization.
• Data quality initiatives.
• Cycle-time reduction.
• Production efficiency.
• Continuous improvement.
• Business growth.
• Customer intimacy.
• Technical modernization.
• Automation.
• Workflow optimization.
• Software development.
• Sustainment.
• Modernization.
• Source processing.
• Content exploitation.
• Digital coding.
• Tasking.
• Operational roles.
• Flight engineering.
• Terps specialist.
• Air traffic controller.
• Aeronautical digital coding specialist.
• Source analyst.
• Customer engagement.
• Customer intimacy.
• Customer trust.
• Customer relationship management.
• Customer service.
• Customer satisfaction.
• Customer loyalty.
• Customer retention.
• Customer acquisition.
• Customer growth.
• Customer development.
• Customer development strategy.
• Customer development plan.
• Customer development process.
• Customer development methodology.
• Customer development framework.
• Customer development tools.
• Customer development techniques.
• Customer development best practices.
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