Sr. Program Manager – Flight Software Portfolio Management
Position Summary
This is a new role within the Flight Software Organization reporting to the Sr. Director of FSW and GNC. The Flight Software Program Manager will drive financial and operational excellence across the FSW portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive consistent cost-estimation tools, techniques, and practices across all existing FSW/GNC projects and proposal efforts.
- Monitor and analyze project cost performance, identifying variances and trends to drive actionable insights to the FSW leaders to maintain cost baselines.
- Cook up with Finance to drive proper cost allocation, tracking, and reporting across the FSW portfolio.
- Interface with proposal activities to estimate and justify FSW/GNC BOEs.
- Create dashboards, reports, and metrics that provide visibility into FSW organizations’ health.
- Collaborate with the FSW Leaders and FSW Chief Engineering team to align technical capability growth for current and future business needs, enabling proactive workforce planning and skills investment decisions.
- Facilitate regular and timely meetings with FSW leaders to review resource needs and project status, identify improvement opportunities, and implement process enhancements that drive efficiency.
- Collaborate with Business Development and Proposal Team to establish and maintain standardized WBS templates and frameworks for new business proposals.
- Create WBS dictionaries and guidelines to ensure uniform application across the organization.
- Ensure consistency in cost estimation approaches across all FSW bids and proposals.
- Serve as the central coordination point between FSW Leaders and other SW Teams (Ground Software, Integration and Test etc.), finance, and program stakeholders.
- Drive communication with the stakeholders to ensure that the dependencies to and from FSW are understood and met timely.
Technical Skills
- Financial & Cost Management: Cost Accounting, Budgeting & Forecasting, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Financial Analysis, Scheduling & Planning, Resource Management, Performance Metrics, Technical Tools & Software (MS Project, SAP, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Advanced Excel, Power BI, Tableau, etc.), Estimation Tools (parametric estimating tools and cost databases, particularly SEER-SEM).
- Flight Software & Aerospace Domain: FSW Development Lifecycle, Aerospace Standards (DO-178C, NASA NPR 7150, CMMI), Systems Engineering, Basic knowledge of systems engineering principles and V&V processes.
Minimum Requirements
- Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Business/Finance.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in engineering, engineering operations, program management, project controls, cost management, or related technical disciplines.
Preferred Qualifications
- 3 years of experience in FSW and Aerospace Project Management.
- PMP certification.
- Agile/Scrum certifications.
- Experience with CMMI-3.
Pay Range
The base pay for this position within Colorado is: $134,000.00 - $223,000.00 annually.
The base pay for this position within New Jersey is: $134,000.00 - $223,000.00 annually.
The base pay for this position within Delaware is: $134,000.00 - $223,000.00 annually.
The base pay for this position within the Washington, DC metropolitan area is: $147,000.00 - $245,000.00 annually.
The base pay for this position within California is: $154,000.00 - $256,000.00 annually.
For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.
Benefits
- Paid time off.
- Health and welfare insurance.
- 401(k) to eligible employees.
Incentive Eligibility
The position is incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions.
Application
To apply, submit your application via the Lanteris Space Systems Career page.