Senior Program Manager

The Senior Program Manager is a leader who drives customer requirements, schedules, resources, and overall program progress to ensure customer satisfaction and our business success. The Senior Program Manager owns on-time execution of customer deliverables, can excel as a technical liaison, and can bring together complex technical and operational inputs to meet program milestones.

Responsibilities:

• Drives program progress, from identification of market need through sustainment and obsolescence

• Manages the customer relationship and is responsible for customer satisfaction

• Responsible for defining program objectives and aligning resources required to execute

• Responsible for the program budget, schedule, and Key Results (KRs) and their performance; regularly monitors and reports on program health, including ownership of Program Review material preparation and presentation

• Owns the schedule for the program. Responsible for pulling inputs from across the company and re-baselining as changes occur.

• Owns evaluation of technical and program risks/opportunities, drives mitigations of risk and realization of opportunities

• Identifies and helps realize program or product opportunities to strength the business

• Drives program technical and operational objectives, while ensuring program progress and on-time delivery

• Serve as the primary customer point of contact (POC), manage contract scope, prepare material for and hosting regular customer check-in meetings, and lead the preparation of contract deliverables

• Collaborates with team members to write, review, and deliver technical deliverables

• Support business development and capture efforts with programmatic inputs, including cost and schedule.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering 

• 8+ year’s experience of program management or aerospace leadership 

• Must be able to perform work subject to ITAR/EAR regulations and/or program requirements

• Proven program management experience, preferably in the defense, national security, or aerospace domains

• Proven experience leading a team of peers to field integrated products to real operating environments

• Adaptive and introspective, willing to learn, teach, lead, and follow

Preferred Experience:

• Advanced degree in a technical field 

• Experience with Department of Defense (DoD) and Government Contracts

• Leadership and team building skills to include fostering collaborative and positive cultures, formal and informal influencing skills, and team empowerment and motivation expertise

• Problem solving skills and knowledge of program management tools and procedures

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Colorado law requires us to tell you the base compensation range of this role, which is $135,000 - $163,000, determined by your education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities. What we can’t quantify for you are the exciting challenges, supportive team, and amazing culture we enjoy.

Classification: Full-time Exempt