Program Manager

Dynamic Aviation • Bridgewater, VA

7d • Onsite

About The Position

The Program Manager leads programs from initiation through completion, coordinating engineering, maintenance, operations, supply chain, and customer teams to meet program requirements, schedules, budgets, and quality standards. The role serves as the primary customer contact, manages risks and changes, and ensures work is completed in accordance with contractual and applicable regulatory requirements.

The position provides daily leadership on assigned projects and personnel, develops project scope and plans with customers, identifies technical approaches, and manages the system development process. It also oversees project communications, staffing, work assignments, schedules, training, and progress to ensure work is completed on time and within budget. The Program Manager identifies and communicates project issues, scope changes, and variances, and facilitates appropriate solutions with customers.

The role requires a bachelor’s degree in a related field, project coordination and leadership experience, familiarity with earned value metrics, and proficiency with Microsoft Office products, particularly Excel and Project. Travel is required as needed and is expected to be less than 10%. The work is regularly performed in an office environment, with working hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., flexible based on business needs. The pay band is $78,100–$105,000; starting pay depends on experience, qualifications, and internal equity, and typically falls between the minimum and midpoint of the range.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Management, Business, Engineering, or a related field of study.
• Willingness and aptitude to learn, build consensus, and demonstrate informal leadership of teams whose members are not direct reports.
• Experience with or exposure to applying earned value metrics (EVM) in a project environment.
• Successful experience coordinating at least 10 employees in a project environment.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Experience handling operational, customer, and personnel issues.
• Experience using Microsoft Office products, notably Excel and Project.
• Ability to build trust with internal and external customers through a disciplined and responsible approach.
• Ability to effectively motivate personnel in a team environment.
• Experience with accepted industry standards for inspections, audits, assets, and performance objectives.
• Ability to travel as required, less than 10%.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
• Ability to produce work authorization documentation to work in the US.

Nice To Haves

• Prefer 5+ years of experience in the aviation or Government contracting industries.
• Experience liaising with FAA and DoD aviation organizations.
• Familiarity with business financial metrics.
• Knowledge of and familiarity with commercial Large Language Model (LLM) tools.

Responsibilities

• Provides daily leadership on assigned projects and personnel.
• Proactively manages project roles, identifies resource requirements, defines project deliverables, and delivers customer service.
• Works with customers to develop project scopes of work and project plans.
• Identifies the technical approach for projects and manages the system development process.
• Ensures effective communications and relationships between customers and project team members.
• Assigns, schedules, trains, reviews, and monitors project work to ensure progress meets expectations and work is completed on time and within budget.
• Works with customers to meet training requirements, identify project team roles and responsibilities, and create an appropriate reporting structure.
• Identifies, tracks, monitors, and communicates project-related issues, scope changes, and variances during implementation.
• Facilitates appropriate solutions with customers.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager