Program Manager
About The Position
Kearfott Corporation, a global Aerospace and Defense supplier for over 100 years, is a leader in the design and manufacture of precision motion control products and inertial navigation components. Kearfott has a very long history of innovation and excellence and is the go-to brand for many of our global clients. Kearfott is trusted, respected and plays a vital role in the success of America’s aerospace and defense industries. With over a century of expertise & experience, Kearfott is dedicated to providing quality, reliability, and cutting-edge technology to customers worldwide to meet their sea, land, air, and space navigation and guidance requirements. We are looking for talented individuals who want to be part of a world-class work force. Join Kearfott and become part of a company that is recognized for technical expertise and respected world-wide as a ‘full service’ provider.
Requirements
- Bachelor's in Engineering and 3 - 5 years’ experience with complex electronic systems or equivalent required
- 3+ years project management experience or equivalent required
- Well versed in MS Project and MS Office suite, ability to learn and extract data from an ERP system
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and across functional areas
- Must be a US Citizen
Nice To Haves
- DOD Program Management/EVM experience highly desired
- MS or MBA is preferred
- PMP Certification is preferred
Responsibilities
- Develop Project / Program Plan
- Define Work Breakdown Structure and Program Team
- Project execution
- Change management
- Project completion, closeout and lessons learned
- Budgeting, Estimation and forecasting
- Integrated Master Schedule development & management – activity & milestone definition
- Monitor, track and report actual costs, Variance reporting
- Perform Estimate to Complete and Estimates at Completion
- Change Management, budgeting and control
- Identify project/ program team roles, responsibilities & accountabilities
- Creation of program organizational structure and decision hierarchy
- Monitoring and management of team performance to plan
- Risk & Opportunity identification
- Quantitative / qualitative analysis
- Abatement and tracking of Risk
- Communications plan, distribution and feedback
- Primary customer interface for program related items
- Monthly & Quarterly Reviews preparation & conduct program schedule and cost performance reporting
Benefits
- medical, prescription, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- a 401(k) plan with company match
- tuition assistance
- paid vacation and sick days
- paid holidays
- a 9/80 work week with every other Friday off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
