Program Manager
About The Position
The Program Manager leads the planning and execution of programs from initiation through completion. The role coordinates engineering, maintenance, operations, supply chain, and customer teams to meet program requirements, schedules, budgets, and quality standards. The Program Manager 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 regularly works in an office environment, generally from 8 am to 5 pm, with flexibility based on business needs. Travel is required as needed and is expected to be less than 10%.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Management, Business, Engineering, or a related field of study.
- Willingness and aptitude to learn and build consensus, with demonstrated experience in informal leadership of teams whose members are not direct reports.
- Experience with or exposure to earned value metrics (EVM) in a project environment.
- Demonstrated successful experience coordinating at least 10 employees in a project environment.
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills.
- Demonstrated experience handling operational, customer, and personnel issues.
- Experienced user of 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 within a team environment.
- Demonstrated 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 United States.
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 exceptional customer service.
- Works cooperatively with customers to develop project scope-of-work documents 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 is completed on time and within budget.
- Works cooperatively with customers to meet training requirements, identify project team members’ roles and responsibilities, and create an appropriate reporting structure for project personnel.
- Identifies, tracks, monitors, and communicates project-related issues, scope changes, and variances that may arise during project implementation.
- Facilitates appropriate solutions with customers.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
