Overview

Modernization & Sustainment seeks a Manufacturing, Repair, and Operations (MRO) Program Manager (PM) supporting the Weapon Systems Integration (WSI) team program area in Indianapolis. The PM leads a dynamic and multidiscipline team(s) within the WSI product line. In this role, the individual will enhance technical program execution performance through focused messaging, leadership visibility, clear role definition, making critical decisions, organizational relationship, structured feedback and aligned goal setting.

This leader establishes the vision for the program team and inspires the team to exceed program objectives. The successful candidate will provide oversight to ensure adherence to program schedules, costs, milestones and technical performance, prepare corrective action plans for technical and schedule issues, and coordinate proposal preparation. The PM will be accountable for achieving all internal financial goals including profit and loss, supporting process improvement initiatives, and ensuring compliance to all applicable policies and procedures. The PM will be responsible to the customer to deliver compliant solutions or services. The PM will work closely with aviation customers across all service areas (USA, USAF, USMC, USN) to ensure programmatic concerns are addressed in a timely manner and foster a strong working relationship. The specific position focuses on support of development programs where strong engineering development background is key.

Responsibilities

As required, the PM will lead/perform the following tasks:

• Accountable for the program in its entirety including cost, schedule, and technical performance.
• Provide programmatic and limited technical direction on overall program execution.
• Chair program Configuration Control Boards (CCBs) and participate in program Engineering Review Boards (ERBs) & Material Review Boards (MRBs).
• Lead internal and external Program Management Reviews (PMRs) and participate in TIMs with the customer and subcontractors as required.
• Maintain relationship of trust and respect with customers, chief engineers, and other internal functional leaders.
• Prepare status or briefings for management via collaboration with others to organize briefings and technical meetings for internal and external representatives.
• Responsible and signature authority for program Earned Value (EV) and Estimates at Complete (EAC)
• Own program Risks and Opportunities.
• Act as the face of the company to senior customers for program creating an open dialog with the customer and using this rapport is able to create new growth opportunities.
• Work with all functions (contracts, finance, engineering, supply chain, manufacturing, mission assurance) to successfully plan and execute programs.
• Elevate issues and risks to appropriate levels within Program Office, WSI Chief Engineer, and functional management, as required.
• Lead technical collaboration with internal and external customers looking for new opportunities.
• Effectively delegate tasking to the functional team.
• Coordinate customer communications with contracts and the chief engineer.
• Understand the program financial and performance status from top to bottom.
• Recognition that decisions affect the success of the program and the product line. Erroneous decisions or recommendations would normally result in failure to achieve critical goals and objectives.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications/Skills:

• Fifteen (15) or more years of relevant work experience.
• Fifteen (15) or more years demonstrated successful Manufacturing, Repair, and Operations (MRO) related experience.
• Ten (10) or more years of successful leadership experience successfully leading a cross functional team of diverse individuals.
• Experience leading manufacturing and repair operations and teams.
• Experience utilizing program management practices including scheduling, earned value management systems (EVMS), financial systems and program control, risk and opportunity (R&O) management.
• Entrepreneurially minded individual with demonstrated experience growing and executing a successful business, program and/or leadership of teams.
• Demonstrated innovative 'out of the box' thinking to support business objectives.
• Sound ethical values built upon trust, respect and 'doing the right thing'.
• Effective oral, written, listening and computer skills to develop and present narratives and briefings using Microsoft Office.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work with and communicate with multiple levels of management and individual contributors on teams.
• Experience with Microsoft Office suite of tools.
• Must be a US Citizen with ability to obtain a DoD Secret level clearance.

Desired Qualifications/Skills:

• Ten (10) or more years of successful Department of Defense (DoD) program management or Integrated Product Team (IPT) leadership experience.
• Experience and understanding of the DoD 5000 lifecycle model, DoD uniform/civilian acquisition experience, and DoD development processes.
• Experience in DoD Manufacturing, Repair, and Operations (MRO), Production, Depot, Refurbishment, or Repair type programs with emphasis on airborne systems
• Experience with weapon systems or special mission military platforms, architectures, capabilities, customers, and/or missions.
• Experience with airborne Carriage Equipment such as pylons, bomb racks, missile launchers, pods, etc
• Leadership experience on aerospace/defense programs working for large Prime contractors as a subcontractor
• Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) degree and/or experience.
• Proposal development experience to include writing of detailed Basis of Estimates.
• Master's Degree or other graduate degree.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or Five (5) years of additional work experience in lieu of degree.

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