Program Manager, Weapon System Integration (WSI)

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the program in its entirety including cost, schedule, and technical performance.
• Provide programmatic and limited technical direction on overall program execution.
• Chair program Configuration Control Boards (CCBs) and participate in program Engineering Review Boards (ERBs) & Material Review Boards (MRBs).
• Lead internal and external Program Management Reviews (PMRs) and participate in TIMs with the customer and subcontractors as required.
• Maintain relationship of trust and respect with customers, chief engineers, and other internal functional leaders.
• Prepare status or briefings for management via collaboration with others to organize briefings and technical meetings for internal and external representatives.
• Responsible and signature authority for program Earned Value (EV) and Estimates at Complete (EAC).
• Own program Risks and Opportunities.
• Act as the face of the company to senior customers for program creating an open dialog with the customer and using this rapport is able to create new growth opportunities.
• Work with all functions (contracts, finance, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, mission assurance) to successfully plan and execute programs.
• Elevate issues and risks to appropriate levels within Program Office, WSI Chief Engineer, and functional management, as required.
• Lead technical collaboration with internal and external customers looking for new opportunities.
• Effectively delegate tasking to the functional team.
• Cook up customer communications with contracts and the chief engineer.
• Understand the program financial and performance status from top to bottom.
• Recognition that decisions affect the success of the program and the product line.

Qualifications

• Ten (10) or more years of relevant work experience.
• Ten (10) or more years demonstrated successful Manufacturing, Repair, and Operations (MRO) related experience.
• Five (5) or more years of successful leadership experience successfully leading a cross functional team of diverse individuals.
• Experience leading manufacturing and repair operations and teams.
• Experience utilizing program management practices including scheduling, earned value management systems (EVMS), financial systems and program control, risk and opportunity (R&O) management.
• Entrepreneurially minded individual with demonstrated experience growing and executing a successful business, program and/or leadership of teams.
• Demonstrated innovative ‘out of the box’ thinking to support business objectives.
• Sound ethical values built upon trust, respect and ‘doing the right thing.’
• Effective oral, written, listening and computer skills to develop and present narratives and briefings using Microsoft Office.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work with and communicate with multiple levels of management and individual contributors on teams.
• Experience with Microsoft Office suite of tools.
• Must be a US Citizen with ability to obtain a DoD Secret level clearance.