Program Manager 3

Description

The company's Intelligence Systems Division is growing fast. This role leads the Propulsion portfolio within the Mission Enabling Products business unit, based in Commerce, California.

Mission Enabling Products designs, builds and supplies spacecraft components that power and enable satellites of all classes, including panels, bus structures, precision optical structures, deployable structural systems and mechanisms, solar arrays, antenna reflectors and propulsion tanks. These parts are on virtually every U.S. satellite built in the last 20 years.

You will report to the Propulsion Product Director and sit on the leadership team for the changing Propulsion portfolio. You will lead a matrixed, cross-functional team working toward shared performance goals from the first idea through program completion.

Responsibilities

• Set direction for and manage a team of about 8 program managers.
• Handle the functional side of that team: time reporting, performance reviews, statements of work, evaluations, employee development, mentoring, engagements and other administrative tasks.
• Uphold ethics and integrity, and look for new ways to work rather than defaulting to tradition.
• Work directly with the customer, business management, contracts, engineering and other support functions to meet program objectives, technical integrity, customer expectations and schedule.
• Build team structures, organizational frameworks and processes that raise productivity and produce a high-performing, cohesive, collaborative team.
• Shape new business through long-term strategic planning, capture planning, proposals and business plans.
• Plan and allocate program resources, including workforce.
• Follow internal processes, policies and applicable industry standards.
• Oversee proposals, contract negotiation and changes, specifications, operating budgets, schedule milestones and key terms.
• Build customer relationships to open up further opportunities in the customer community.
• Set up a program organization that meets customer requirements and brings in the right internal and external sub-organizations.
• Set design concepts, criteria and engineering efforts for product research, development, integration and test.
• Run thorough risk and opportunity management.
• Lead cross-functional Integrated Program Teams (IPTs) to hit cost, schedule and technical targets.
• Make sure the team understands and follows contract scope, and route changes through a control board.
• Measure program performance and report it to internal and external customers.
• Give clear, persuasive presentations to customers, executives and other stakeholders.
• Build and maintain budget baselines using Earned Value Management (EVM) or similar cost and schedule control methods and tools.
• Manage customer-furnished property and information, such as GFE and CFE.
• Lead the program from proposal development through startup, execution and contract closeout.
• Hold technical leadership and functional management over the Propulsion Program Managers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree plus 10 years, or master's degree plus 8 years, of experience with U.S. Government contracts and customers, and/or project management in aerospace.
• At least 5 years of functional and/or technical leadership.
• Hands-on experience leading program tasks on schedule, at cost and meeting all requirements, as a program manager, project lead, IPT lead or cost account manager (CAM).
• Experience building and leading diverse, inclusive teams that stay engaged, including mentoring, coaching and resolving conflict.
• Advanced MS Office Suite and MS Project skills.
• U.S. citizenship is required for employment.
• Ability to explain complex concepts clearly, with a solid record of program performance and strong team-building skills.
• Preferred: Strong drive to get results, with excellent leadership, timely decisions, negotiation and problem-solving.
• Preferred: Knowledge of process standards for program execution, business development and risk management.
• Preferred: Experience setting up organizational and execution methods with tools such as EVMS, IMP, IMS, and risk and opportunity management.
• Preferred: Collaborator who builds lasting working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Preferred: Track record in product strategy, stakeholder and customer relationships, pursuit capture and shaping requirements.
• Preferred: Experience in program management, engineering and manufacturing, or IPT roles.
• Preferred: Balanced interpersonal, business and technical skills.
• Preferred: Strong organizing skills, whether working alone or in a team.
• Preferred: Clear verbal and written communicator with proven experience building and delivering briefings.
• Preferred: Able to tailor communication to any audience, from manufacturing technicians to customers and executives.

Conditions

This is a full-time, 100% on-site role at the Commerce, California site.

Relocation assistance may be available.

No security clearance is needed to start, and no travel is required.

Base salary range: $193,000.00 to $289,600.00, a general guideline. Actual pay depends on scope, responsibilities, experience, education, skills and market conditions.

The application period is estimated at 20 days from the posting date, but may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

Benefits

• Depending on the role, you may be eligible for overtime, shift differential and a discretionary bonus.
• Annual bonuses reward individual contribution and let you share in company results.
• Vice President and Director roles may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
• Health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO) for vacation or personal business.