Senior Program Manager

Responsibilities

• Leads development of the top-level plans for a program, coordinating with group leads to develop execution plans.
• Participates in proposal development in support of additional work scope and manage pre-award performance to budget.
• Establishes, monitors and integrates change management processes and decisions.
• Facilitate negotiations involving major project parameters such as deliverable definition and performance objectives (e.g., cost, schedule, quality).
• Develop project plans utilizing MS Project and define deliverables that meet identified requirements, and customer expectations.
• Identify and manage project risks, issues and opportunities.
• Manage all assigned resources including people, facilities, budgets, and schedules to meet performance requirements and commitments.
• Report on project status and performance metrics to program leadership team and Customer.
• Ensure project team members’ responsibilities, accountability and authority are clearly documented and understood.
• Ensure assigned individuals are executing the assigned tasks and provide appropriate tracking and reporting per plan.
• Performs project management activities in accordance with accepted project management standards in the industry (e.g., PMI, Project Management Body of Knowledge [PMBOK], ANSI, and ISO-standards).
• Implements customer and program communication and contact plans. Facilitates the resolution of program issues.
• Works with team to refine specifications and leads programs from development into final product.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and 5+ years of relevant experience within aerospace or a technical field as a project or program manager.
• Thorough knowledge and proficiency in all project management areas in accordance with Industry project management standards.
• Ability to lead and direct the activities and resources within and across the organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to listen, assimilate, evaluate, and summarize.
• Sound ability to communicate with the customer at all levels.
• Knowledge of the Project Lifecycle from requirements definition, proposal preparation and negotiation and project implementation through to completion.
• Strong initiative in defining, proposing, implementing, and communicating schedule metrics that support informed decision-making.
• Able to obtain a DoD security clearance.