Senior Program Manager

Leidos • Huntsville, AL

29d • $139,100 - $251,450

About The Position

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainable. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.
Your greatest work is ahead!
Leidos’ Defense Sector - Advanced Materials & Test Division is seeking a Senior Program Manager to join our team of talented scientists, engineers, and program staff focused on advancing Hypersonic Systems and implementing defense solutions that are enabled by the application of materials in extreme environments. Leidos Defense Sector provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide. Solutions for Defense include enterprise and mission IT, large-scale intelligence systems, command and control, geospatial and data analytics, cybersecurity, logistics, training, and intelligence analysis and operations support. Our team is solving the world’s toughest security challenges for customers with “can’t fail” missions. To explore and learn more, click here!
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Requirements

• Active DOD clearance at the SECRET level or higher
• Bachelors Degree in science or engineering
• BA degree with 15+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 13+ years of prior relevant experience.
• Prior experience in a program management or deputy program management role for a program with more than $30M in annual value.
• Prior experience leading programs or tasks involving the development, prototyping, or launching of flight vehicles for Department of War applications

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading programs or tasks focused on flight testing missiles, rockets, or similar flight vehicles at government test ranges.
• Advanced degree in business, science, or engineering
• Strong understanding of hardware development, manufacturing, procurement, production, and integration in an AS9100 environment
• Working knowledge of missile systems
• Proven experience developing, maintaining, and managing to detailed program schedules, leveraging matrixed scheduling staff
• Proven experience developing, maintaining, and managing to detailed financial plans, leveraging matrixed program finance staff
• Proven experience leading through dynamic, program start-up or substantial program growth phases
• Proven experience communicating with senior company leadership regarding program status as well as expectation management and strategy shaping.
• Proven experience growing and maintaining solid customer and external stakeholder relationships based on trust, transparency, and demonstrated results
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a highly dynamic program environment with shifting priorities, requirements, and funding allocations.
• Consistent track record of achieving success through communication, transparency, and collaboration
• Demonstrated willingness and ability to be flexible and learn on the job from colleagues in new environments or when encountering new circumstances or requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead a program team involved with advanced manufacturing of missile systems and test platform components.
• Planning, tracking, and execution of complex tasking within technical, schedule, and budget constraints.
• Primary interface with the customer and responsible for customer relationships.
• Critical member of proposal teams responsible for follow-on business and on contract growth.
• Communicate regularly with government and prime customers and other external stakeholders participating in nation-wide team to build and maintain strong relationships founded on trust, transparency, and collaboration.
• Set expectations and guide the direction of work of the internal team through clear, frequent and compelling communication.
• Develop and implement execution and growth strategies for the program, leveraging the best available resources.
• Develop staffing plans to execute the needed work.
• Develop financial budgets, metrics and targets to successfully execute the required work on a recurrent basis.
• Develop detailed schedules to successfully execute the required work on a recurrent basis.
• Provide regular, detailed, internal reporting in the form of Monthly Reports, Integrated Program Reviews, weekly status reports, etc. as required.
• Communicate frequently with Division leaders to maintain their awareness of program needs and performance expectations and seek resources or guidance to best achieve optimal program performance.
• Aggressively mitigate all risks to consistent, on-time, on-cost, successful program execution.
• Travel (up to 25%) for test events and technical interchange meetings to various test locations or collaborator performance sites.

Benefits

• Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

What This Job Offers

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