Sr Manager Project / Program

• Manages, oversees, monitors and approves elements of assigned programs from bid and inception to deployment and sustainment including proposal development, solution decomposition, work package allocation, and leading teams to ensure proper requirements management, design documentations, development, integration, defect resolution, certification, deployment, and customer acceptance of products, ensuring adherence to budget, schedule and contract requirements
• Responsible for using best practice PMO methodology to create project management plans to fit the stakeholders/customers’ needs and deliver within budget on desired outcomes
• Thorough understanding and compliance with awarded Contract
• Creates partnership and ensures full integration of internal cross-functional relationships of engineering, quality, delivery, and other technical leads supporting program execution
• Creates partnership and maintains strong customer relationships with focus on increased customer satisfaction while staying within the boundaries of the contractual commitments
• Develops and manages complex development schedules with Microsoft Project
• Ensures on-time delivery meeting internal gate review commitments, customer interim execution commitments, and deliverables across program
• Develops and maintains a project risk register and successfully manage program risk and ensures risk exposure is minimized and mitigated
• Conducts program coordination meetings and participate in program reviews
• Allocates budget within the Microsoft Project schedule from which a baseline snapshot can be created to capture a Performance Measurement Baseline from which progress will be measured
• Statuses Microsoft Project plan regularly to ensure percent complete is accurately captured, task durations and dependencies are proactively managed, and estimate-to-complete resources (labor and cost) are properly updated
• Proactively coordinates with functional leads to ensure resources are available for programs such as engineering, quality, delivery, etc
• Ensures that scope creep, communications, and quality are carefully managed
• Owns and presents program status to executive leadership team monthly
• Proactively confronts issues openly and quickly
• Effectively communicates relevant project information to superiors and peers
• Able to communicate at all levels in the customer and internal organization
• Possesses the expert knowledge to identify opportunities for change and the ability to convey the need for change, but flexible to adapt to current processes
• Builds expert knowledge in our industry and conveys knowledge to others
• Evokes creative and innovative thinking from team members while helping them to bring their ideas to fruition
• Helps to determine new, creative ways to employ teams on projects and distribute responsibilities
• Works across the organization to share lessons learned and best practices

• Four-year college degree, or equivalent, with preferences in a design engineering discipline or related technical discipline, plus a minimum of ten years of related technical or engineering experience including seven years of project engineering, project management, program management or other supervisory responsibility
• Advanced engineering degree or MBA is preferred
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is highly recommended
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) is required
• Proficiency in Microsoft Project is required
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional program teams
• Proven understanding of engineering, operations, system integration and test, quality assurance, configuration management, logistics, contract administration, standard business practices, and program finance
• Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing, make presentations and conduct negotiations with customers, subcontractors, and vendors
• Requires knowledge of state or government procurement, contracting, and standards and specifications
• Must be full USA citizen
• Must pass background and CFIUS checks
• Domestic travel projected less than 25%

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