Senior Technical Program Manager

What you'll do

• Lead program execution for warhead-development efforts from early concept through production transition.
• Build and maintain integrated plans connecting scope, schedules, requirements, resources, costs, and technical dependencies.
• Serve as the primary interface between the Energetics Team and vehicle teams to align delivery requirements.
• Track requirements across teams to identify gaps and drive owners toward timely resolution.
• Translate evolving technical work into clear priorities, milestones, and tradeoffs for engineering stakeholders.
• Anticipate hardware-development constraints like supplier lead times and production capacity to build realistic schedules.
• Surface execution risks early and frame options to drive decisions before they become delivery failures.
• Create program communications, engineering documentation, cost estimates, and risk summaries for technical and nontechnical audiences.

What we're looking for

• 8+ years of experience leading complex hardware-development programs through multiple lifecycle stages.
• Experience coordinating concurrent programs or subsystem teams in a fast-moving R&D or new-product-development environment.
• Working knowledge of hardware-development and manufacturing timelines to identify dependencies and build credible schedules.
• Experience aligning technical requirements, schedules, resources, risks, and deliverables across teams without direct authority.
• Proven ability to bring structure to ambiguous programs and drive decisions to closure.
• Ability to communicate technical and program information clearly through written updates, visual plans, and reviews.
• Experience preparing engineering or program documentation, project schedules, and cost estimates.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
• Experience leading hardware programs in defense, aerospace, robotics, or other high-consequence technical environments (preferred).
• Experience supporting munitions, ordnance, energetics, or complex electromechanical systems (preferred).
• Experience managing programs from early R&D through production readiness or scaled delivery (preferred).
• Familiarity with requirements tracking, configuration management, verification planning, and risk-reduction testing (preferred).
• Experience working with suppliers, long-lead hardware, and production ramp decisions (preferred).
• Active U.S. security clearance, including DoD Secret or Top Secret, or DOE L or Q (preferred).
• Familiarity with Jira, Microsoft Project, Confluence, or similar planning and collaboration tools (preferred).