Sr. Program Manager

Blue Canyon Technologies

$140K — $195K *
Aerospace & Defense
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of relevant experience in program management or systems engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Management with Engineering background, or Computer Science
  • Proven track record in managing complex, high-profile aerospace programs
  • Strong understanding of Agile principles and related tools like Jira and Confluence
  • Excellent documentation and communication skills
  • Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional teams in fast-paced environments
  • Technical experience may substitute for formal education

Responsibilities

  • Oversee space hardware missions for commercial, defense, and NASA clients
  • Manage all phases of program life cycle, from development to on-orbit operations
  • Engage in system design to balance performance, schedule, risk, and cost
  • Lead and mentor program teams through project challenges and successes
  • Conduct major program milestone reviews and manage to successful outcomes
  • Perform trade studies to optimize cost, schedule, and technical needs
  • Collaborate with customers to refine project needs and provide innovative solutions

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance effective first of the month after hire
  • Life insurance coverage
  • 401k matching 4% with a minimum 5% contribution
  • Generous paid time off including 3 weeks of vacation and parental leave
  • Paid holidays: 7 throughout the year, plus floating holidays
Full Job Description
Position Purpose: The Sr. Program Manager will provide leadership and supervision in a team environment, with frequent opportunities for customer engagement, new business development, concept design, mission formulation, system analysis, and detailed design, analysis, integration, and test, plus orbit operations. The Senior Program Manager will typically run larger, more complex/demanding, and high-profile programs. Title: Sr. Program Manager Position Type: Full Time Pay Range: $140,000 - $195,000 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.) Location: Lafayette, CO Benefits: • Employer sponsored health, dental, and vision benefits effective the first of the month following hire date • Life insurance • 401k (matching 4% with a minimum 5% contribution) • Generous PTO (3 weeks of vacation + 3 floating holidays, 2 weeks of sick time, 7 paid holidays throughout the year) and parental leave Job Responsibilities: • Program management responsibility for Space hardware missions for Commercial, Defense, Restricted, or NASA satellites. • Program execution in all phases of the program life cycle (business development, mission formulation, requirements flow-down, manufacturing, integration and test, and on-orbit operations) • System design balancing performance, emerging technologies, schedule, risk, and cost • Encourage, council, mentor, and lead program teams thru program evolution, milestones, challenges, and successes. • Prepare, present, and manage for successful conclusion major program milestone reviews • Manage / perform trade studies balancing cost, schedule and technical requirements and parametric analyses • Evaluation of existing and emerging technologies • Develop, review and negotiate procurement documents (specification, SOW) and manage subcontracts • Work closely with customers to help refine their needs and provide innovative and competitive solutions • Support and help evolve the spacecraft and component product line offerings • Generate and maintain program integrated masterschedule (IMS) • Generate and maintain program budgets and forecasts, including financial, technical, and schedule risk and opportunity positions • Execute flight programs that meet technical and cost obligations • Work closely with other contractors/teammatesin meeting customer needs • Collaborate closely with technical program leads and diverse domain expertise • Ensure all business is conducted using the highest ethicalstandards and in compliance with all applicable laws, statutes, and regulations as well as company policies and directives • May include personnel management responsibilities • Other responsibilities as assigned Required Qualifications/Education: • At least 10+ years of relevant experience • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Management with Engineering background, or Computer Science discipline • Good documentation and communication skills • Strong systems engineering and technical management skills and demonstrated ability to grow new business opportunities and execute demanding flight programs • Ability to work rapidly with minimalsupervision on projects involving both smalland large engineering teams • Previous experience and skills in project definition, simulation, implementation, lab integration and test • Strong understanding of Agile principles, ceremonies, and artifacts • Knowledge of Agile metrics and how to interpret them to drive performance • Experience working with Agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, etc. • Demonstrated ability to facilitate collaboration between cross-functional teams and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment with emphasis on efficiently delivering high quality capabilities. • Related technical experience may be considered in lieu of education Working Conditions: This job operates in a professional office environment, but in a manufacturing company. This role uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, scanners, filing cabinets and fax machines. BCT anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require BCT to shorten or extend the application window. Physical Demands and Work Environment: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time. The employee is occasionally required to stand, bend, reach, and walk. The position requires some light physical effort. This would require the ability to lift or move objects up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift or move objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities are required by this job which includes close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus. We recommend applying directly via the Blue Canyon Technologies website, careers page: https://www.bluecanyontech.com/careers

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