Program Manager

About the Company

Santa Barbara Infrared, Inc. (SBIR) is a fast-paced subsidiary of HEICO Corporation (NYSE: HEI, HEI.A), serving the aerospace, defense, and electronics industries with innovative and cost-saving products and services. For over 60 years, HEICO has been recognized as one of Forbes Magazine’s 200 "Best Small Companies" and 200 "Hot Shot Stocks." SBIR designs and manufactures advanced Infrared (IR) and Electro-Optical (E-O) test instrumentation, supporting military and commercial sensor systems worldwide in laboratory, production, depot, and field test applications. The company is known for its high-energy, dynamic culture and provides highly integrated, well-engineered hardware and software solutions to the E-O community.

Responsibilities

• Generate, manage, and coordinate comprehensive program plans, schedules, budgets, and technical performance for SBIR programs.
• Provide leadership and direction to engineering, design, and production teams for program deliverables.
• Set and continuously manage project expectations with team members and stakeholders.
• Take ownership of program performance by maintaining awareness of technical product performance requirements and enforcing disciplined concept and design reviews to demonstrate compliance.
• Ensure technical performance diligence is flowed down to sub-contractors and suppliers, and validate sourced sub-assemblies and critical parts.
• Interact regularly with customer program stakeholders to provide status and understand requirements and expectations; manage the customer relationship.
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, assess risks, and build contingencies into program plans.
• Work closely with SBIR engineering, procurement, production, quality departments, and vendors to ensure work plans and resource allocation support program goals.
• Support proposal efforts by providing costing, schedules, estimated labor (in concert with vendors and engineering), technical proposal writing and editing, and participation in kickoff meetings, TIMs, and CDRs.
• Manage multiple programs (5 to 10) totaling $10 to $15 million in annual revenue.
• Make programmatic decisions when presented with conflicting or incomplete information from technical staff; manage technical risks.
• Work with the Accounting department to maintain ETCs, EACs, and spend plans.
• Stay in sync with the Finance department on spending and on-contract labor execution to facilitate accurate P&L forecasting for CPFF and Percent-Complete contracts.
• Provide monthly program updates to senior management.