Program Manager Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or equivalent experience / combined education
• 6+ years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree OR 4+ years with a master’s degree (OR 10+ years in lieu of a degree)
• Experience in program management and/or technical project leadership.
• Experience leading hardware development programs in aerospace, defense, space, or electronics environments.
• Strong understanding of contracts, SOWs, milestones, and compliance.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• PMP certification (or ability to obtain within 6 months).

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM).
• Experience leading programs from design → prototype → production.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem‑solving abilities.
• Strong MS Office skills, especially Word, Excel, Project, and Power Point
• Excel – Establish and maintain budgetary baselines, track actual expenditures, forecast future costs
• Project – Establish and maintain a program schedule to show critical path, tracks customer and internal milestones, identifies time phases of resource needs, can be used for reporting internally and externally
• Word – Creating and updating documents for delivery to the customer, provide to subcontractors for direction, and respond to internal requirements for documentation
• Power Point – Creating presentations for program status, design reviews and other meetings both internally and externally
• Strong oral and written communication skills in order to clearly and effectively convey issues, status reports, risk assessment, quality management, data validation, and interface with a highly technical engineering and leadership staff
• Familiarity with manufacturing in an electronics environment

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary customer-facing representative for assigned programs.
• Lead recurring customer meetings, technical interchange meetings, program status reviews, and action-item follow-ups.
• Deliver clear, timely communication on program performance, risks, and issues to customers and internal leadership.
• Maintain strong customer relationships, resolve concerns, and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Manage all aspects of program execution including cost, schedule, deliverables, and technical scope.
• Ensure alignment with Statements of Work (SOW), specifications, and contract requirements.
• Coordinate with Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Quality, and Contracts to meet program commitments.
• Support contract modifications, funding actions, and customer-directed scope changes.
• Develop and maintain program budgets, Estimates at Completion (EACs), and financial forecasts.
• Track labor, material, subcontractor costs, and actuals versus plan.
• Identify and analyze variances, recommend corrective actions, and prepare monthly financial reporting inputs.
• Build and maintain integrated program schedules using Microsoft Project.
• Identify critical path, dependencies, resource constraints, and schedule risks.
• Forecast milestone completion and create recovery plans when deviations occur.
• Maintain program risk registers, including mitigation strategies, owners, and closure plans.
• Facilitate routine risk and issue reviews with cross-functional teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve cost, schedule, technical performance, or customer value.
• Lead integrated program teams across Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and other support functions.
• Develop staffing plans and communicate resource needs to functional managers.
• Drive accountability, clarity, and coordination across technical and programmatic stakeholders.
• Mentor and support the development of Associate Program Managers, providing guidance on execution fundamentals, communication practices, and PM best practices.
• Develop inputs for Statements of Work (SOWs) and requirements packages.
• Monitor subcontractor execution, schedule performance, and deliverables.
• Coordinate supplier issue resolution and ensure alignment with program objectives.
• Provide programmatic input to proposals, schedules, cost estimates, and risk assessments.
• Support customer meetings, fact-finding, and transition activities during proposal phases.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Basic life with AD&D
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Ancillary (Voluntary life with AD&D, accident, critical illness, hospital, and pet)
• Spending accounts (HSA, FSA, and DCFSA)
• Paid time off
• Holidays
• 401(k) (including company match)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Leaves (Parental, maternity, and military)
• Annual discretionary bonus (for eligible roles)