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JOB TITLE: Manager Programs 3
The Senior Program Manager joins the Amherst Systems Operating Unit within the Multidomain Sensing, Targeting, and Survivability Division. Reporting to site leadership, this role oversees a complex portfolio of engineering development, production, lab infrastructure, logistics, and sustainment activities. The manager is responsible for cost, schedule, technical, and contractual performance, ensuring integration across evolving hardware and software baselines and multiple contract vehicles. Key duties include establishing executable plans, managing cross-program dependencies, controlling risk, and forecasting financial performance. The role requires proficiency in Earned Value Management and Risk & Opportunity Management tools. This position supports the development and delivery of realistic threat simulation systems used for testing and training electronic warfare systems globally, solving critical problems in situational awareness and mission-enabling information for global security.
Manage cost, schedule, technical, and contractual performance across a complex portfolio of engineering and production programs.
Establish executable plans and manage cross-program dependencies to ensure engineering change and lab readiness.
Own end-to-end execution of programs while proactively removing barriers and resolving cross-program conflicts.
Forecast and achieve financial performance objectives while maintaining strict contractual scope discipline.
Lead requirements definition, proposal development, contract negotiations, and change management processes.
Prepare and present executive-level briefings to internal and external stakeholders regarding program health.
Build customer relationships through transparent communication of risks, dependencies, and technical tradeoffs.
Make risk-informed decisions using facts and sound judgment in situations with incomplete information.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree with 8 years of program management leadership experience, Master's degree with 6 years, or 12 years of relevant experience.
Experience leading complex development, engineering services, production, logistics, or sustainment programs with ownership of cost, schedule, and technical requirements.
Experience operating within a cross-functional execution environment.
Experience managing programs using financial management and reporting tools like Earned Value Management and Risk & Opportunity Management.
Experience managing customer-facing execution.
Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret level government clearance.
U.S. Citizenship is required.
Experience managing transition of complex systems through development, production, fielding, and sustainment (preferred).
Earned Value Management
Risk & Opportunity Management
Software Development
Logistics
Sustainment
Lab Infrastructure
Integrated Product Team
Command and Control Systems
Air and Missile Defense
Change Management
Requirements Definition
Proposal Development
Integrated Program Teams (IPT
Risk Management
Supply Chain Management
Software Development
Qualification Testing
Sustainment Support
Integrated Master Schedule
NCTA Management
Earned Value Management (EVM)
Data Analytics
Data Visualization
Agile
Risk and Opportunity Management
Program Management
Digital Transformation
PMP
Integrated Program Teams (IPT)
Earned Value Management (EVM)
Control Account Management (CAM)
Program Management
Integrated Program Teams (IPT)
Proposal Development
Product Research
Production Programs
Cost & Schedule Control
Earned Value Management
Risk & Opportunity Management
Software Development
Cyber
Electronic Warfare
Lab Infrastructure
Logistics
Sustainment
Lifecycle Support
Integrated Product Team
Proposal Development
Change Management