Program Manager, Weapon System Integration (WSI)

Description

• Maintain relationship of trust and respect with customers, chief engineers, and other internal functional leaders.
• Elevate issues and risks to appropriate levels within Program Office, WSI Chief Engineer, and functional management, as required.
• Prepare status or briefings for management via collaboration with others to organize briefings and technical meetings for internal and external representatives.
• Accountable for the program in its entirety including cost, schedule, and technical performance.
• Lead technical collaboration with internal and external customers looking for new opportunities.
• Work with all functions (contracts, finance, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, mission assurance) to successfully plan and execute programs.
• Coordinate customer communications with contracts and the chief engineer.
• Lead internal and external Program Management Reviews (PMRs) and participate in TIMs with the customer and subcontractors as required.
• Provide programmatic and limited technical direction on overall program execution.
• 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.
• Effectively delegate tasking to the functional team.
• Chair program Configuration Control Boards (CCBs) and participate in program Engineering Review Boards (ERBs).
• Responsible and signature authority for program Earned Value (EV) and Estimates at Complete (EAC)

Requirements

• Seven (7) or more years of relevant work experience.
• Five (5) or more years of successful Department of Defense (DoD) program management or Integrated Product Team (IPT) experience.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work with and communicate with multiple levels of management and individual contributors on teams.
• Demonstrated innovative ‘out of the box’ thinking to support business objectives.
• Must be a US Citizen with ability to obtain a DoD Secret level clearance.
• Proposal development experience to include writing of detailed Basis of Estimates.
• Entrepreneurially minded individual with demonstrated experience growing and executing a successful business, program and/or leadership of teams.
• Experience on DoD Internal Research and Development (IRAD, Customer Research and Development (CRAD), Technical Demonstration (TD), System Development and Demonstration (SDD) or Engineering, Manufacturing, & Development (EMD) Programs.
• Bachelor’s degree or Eight (8) years of additional work experience in lieu of degree.
• Experience with Microsoft Office suite of tools.
• Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) degree and/or experience.
• Experience leading development teams and system requirements management.
• Familiarity with Alternate Mission Equipment (AME) including but not limited to Bomb Racks, Missile Launchers, and Podded Systems.
• Mechanical and/or electrical type product-based development leadership experience including interfaces to engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers of products.
• Master’s Degree or other graduate degree.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Three (3) or more years of successful leadership experience successfully leading a cross functional team of diverse individuals through development to transition to production.
• Five (5) or more years successful engineering design, development, and transition to production experience.
• Effective oral, written, listening and computer skills to develop and present narratives and briefings using Microsoft Office.
• Experience utilizing program management practices including scheduling, earned value management systems (EVMS), financial systems and program control, risk and opportunity (R&O) management.
• Experience with weapon systems or special mission military platforms, architectures, capabilities, customers, and/or missions.
• Experience and understanding of the DoD 5000 lifecycle model, DoD uniform/civilian acquisition experience, and DoD development processes.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance