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Dice.com
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Job Description
Senior Program Manager
Skills
- Government Contracting
- Budget Management
- Systems Engineering
- Program Management
- Proposal Writing
- PMP
- Electronic Warfare
- Business Development
- Supply Chain Management
- Collaboration
- Customer Experience
- Customer Focus
- Manufacturing Operations
- SummaryHerrick Technology Laboratories, Inc.
SUMMARY OF FUNCTIONS
The Senior Program Manager is responsible for the successful execution of technically complex programs, including requirements, staffing, schedule, and budget.ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage and direct the daily execution of programs within contract requirements to ensure that cost, schedule, and performance goals are met.
- Maintain relationships both with prime contractors and government customers.
- Work with internal stakeholders to ensure accurate development and timely delivery of customer deliverables.
- Perform variance analysis of schedule and cost.
- Coordinate with contracts administration on issues pertaining to contract requirements, changes, and interpretations.
- Work with the project engineer and utilize effective strategies for communicating program priorities, task status, risks, and issues within the program team, to senior management, and to customers.
- Work with Engineering group leaders to coordinate program staffing in alignment with business-wide priorities.
- Develop and maintain project schedules for day-to-day management and as inputs to business-wide labor forecast and resource balancing efforts.
- Drive cross-functional alignment efforts to ensure seamless integration across engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, operations, and business development teams.
- Collaborate with managers and other technical leads to support capture and relevant business development activities.
- Participate as a team member or leader on bid and proposal activities.
REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, business or finance discipline and 10+ years of practical experience.
- Five years of industry or military experience can substitute for a bachelor's degree.
- Experience in government contracting.
- Proven customer-facing program management and/or systems engineering experience with multiple large-scale projects.
- Strong customer focus, ability to lead a team, and establish resilient, collaborative working relationships with customers, technical staff, senior managers, and peers.
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely to diverse audiences.
- Experience with managing manpower planning, project reviews, scheduling, and budget control.
- Knowledge of program management tools and procedures.
- Experience with the evaluation of requests for proposal/quote.
PREFERRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- Advanced degree in engineering, business or finance discipline.
- PMP Certification.
- Knowledge of SIGINT and/or EW.
- Experience working with DoD/Intelligence Community customers.
- Experience with the development and integration of sophisticated hardware and software systems.
- Solid technical aptitude and an ability to understand technical designs, hardware and software development life cycle, challenges, and risks.
- Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams to successful completion of projects.
- Proficient in use of Microsoft Project for cost, schedule, technical and resource management.
- Experience using Deltek CostPoint and COGNOS Analytics.
BENEFITS
- Startup Environment
- Competitive Salaries
- Health Insurance
- 401K Matching
- Bonus for superior performanceEmployers have access to artificial intelligence language tools ("AI") that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description.