Job Title:  Program Manager

Job Purpose

The Program Manager is responsible for managing and leading programs with achieving financial, delivery, and customer satisfaction objectives across all phases of the program. This role will support both production and development programs with an emphasis on both short-term and long-term strategies.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide leadership in efforts to make programs more efficient and more cost effective. The goal is to reduce the amount of time needed to complete tasks while maintaining consistent high quality.
• Responsible for gross margin, schedule compliance, on time delivery, and customer satisfaction.
• Exemplify leadership and management skills to direct the program teams in the development of battery hardware for space flight programs and R&D purposes. Deliverables can take the form of finished product, engineering support, analyses, or any other item specifically called out as a deliverable in our contracts.
• Provide clear direction, communication, and feedback on program tasks.
• Act as the primary point of contact with external customers on all program-related matters, including reviews and technical interchange meetings.
• Lead internal and external program meetings and reviews to highlight progress and ensure customer requirements are met.
• Apply knowledge of key program management processes, including risk assessment, program planning, program phases, resource planning, cost control, and forecasting.
• Direct program schedules for technical, quality assurance, manufacturing, and test personnel.
• Produce and communicate program schedules and forecasts.
• Represent program management at program, interdepartmental, operations, and business unit meetings.
• Support Business Development by providing program management inputs for bid proposal efforts.
• Motivate and facilitate multi-disciplined teams.
• Monitor and control work in progress for technical adequacy and completion.
• Ensure that all contractual requirements are understood and satisfied.
• Some travel required, up to 5% of the time.

Qualifications

Required

• Undergraduate degree in Engineering, Finance, or related technical field.
• 2+ Years program management experience.
• Demonstrated leadership capability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
• Good working knowledge of MS Office applications, Visio, and Project.
• This position performs work for the US Government and is controlled by export restrictions. Therefore, qualified candidates must be a US Citizen or Permanent Residence.

Preferred

• 5 years of Space Flight Hardware experience.
• Familiarity with battery technologies. 
• Familiarity with cost plus programs and earned value management. 

General Job Requirements