Technical Program Manager

Thomas Global • Irvine, CA

1d • $145,000 - $165,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Thomas Global Systems is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead the overall planning and execution of complex aerospace and defense programs from contract award through delivery. The role is accountable for achieving technical, cost, schedule, and contractual objectives while coordinating multidisciplinary teams and working directly with customers. It evaluates program performance and risk and drives informed decisions to keep programs on track. The position is fully onsite in Irvine, California.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or a similar field.
• At least 8 years of technical program management experience in aerospace or defense.
• Proven track record of government program management.
• Experience with earned value management and cost-plus type programs.
• Strong understanding of engineering practices and ability to convey technical problems and solutions between technical teams and upper management or customers.
• Strong understanding of Integrated Master Scheduling, Critical Path Method (CPM), EVM/EVMS, schedule risk analysis, and program risk management.
• Ability to interpret schedule, cost, risk, and contractual information and translate it into effective program decisions.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary technical teams and coordinating across engineering, operations, supply chain, finance, contracts, and customers.
• Strong analytical, communication, leadership, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with Microsoft Project and familiarity with schedule-risk or program-control tools.
• U.S. person status required due to applicable export control requirements.

Nice To Haves

• 10 or more years of technical program management experience in aerospace or defense is preferred.
• Working knowledge of EIA-748, DCMA schedule assessment practices, and NDIA PASEG.

Responsibilities

• Lead overall program execution, including scope, schedule, cost, technical performance, risk, and customer commitments.
• Direct the development and maintenance of the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), ensuring it reflects the execution strategy, dependencies, milestones, and contractual commitments.
• Review schedule health, critical and driving paths, schedule margin, and emerging schedule risks, and lead corrective or recovery actions.
• Oversee Schedule Risk Assessments (SRA) and evaluate confidence-level, sensitivity, and risk-driver results to support decisions and mitigation planning.
• Monitor Earned Value Management (EVM) and other performance indicators, identify significant variances and trends, and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
• Integrate program information into a coherent execution plan with the scheduler and risk management, contracts, finance, engineering, and other functional specialists.
• Own the program risk and opportunity posture and ensure significant risks have mitigation plans and schedule and cost impacts identified.
• Ensure execution complies with contractual requirements, Statements of Work, SDRLs, and customer reporting requirements.
• Lead customer and management reviews, including PMRs, SMRs, earned value reviews, schedule reviews, and risk reviews.
• Manage customer expectations, contractual commitments, priorities, and changes in coordination with Contracts.
• Identify resource, supplier, technical, and cross-functional issues affecting performance and drive timely resolution.
• Provide executive management and customers with clear program status, forecasts, risks, and recommended actions.

Benefits

• Competitive remuneration and comprehensive benefit package.

What This Job Offers

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