Senior Program Manager USN/USMC

WORK LOCATION: Remote
FLSA STATUS: Exempt
SALARY RANGE: The anticipated salary range for this role $159,700 – $209,000 annually. This range reflects a good faith estimate based on the targeted level for the role and typical compensation benchmarks across U.S. locations. Actual compensation may vary depending on the selected candidate’s qualifications, experience, geographical location, and internal alignment.
SUMMARY
The Senior Program Manager is a critical professional position that supports prime contracts with the United States Navy and Marine Corps (USN/USMC). The Senior Program Manager leads a portfolio that is complex in nature. The Senior Program Manager is responsible for the timing, cost and budget performance of assigned engineering projects that may vary in size from very large to multiple smaller programs. The Senior Program Manager leads the customer relationship and acts is the primary point of contact for our customers, briefing them regularly on project schedule/delivery status, aftermarket repairs status and actions, training, and all technical notifications such as Customer Change Notifications, Air Worthiness Directives, and Service Bulletins. The Senior Program Manager role requires strong leadership, communication, influence, relationship building, and management skills, coupled with Technical Project Management expertise. The Senior Program Manager role is remote; however, the selected candidate must reside in Maryland due to the need for regular travel to the customer site.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The following job functions are a basic requirement but are not limited to and may be assigned other duties.
Serves as the Redwire face to the customer for all post-award activites.
Serves as point of contact for customer field issues and coordinates engineering responses including Air Worthiness Directives, Service Bulletins, field repairs, and troubleshooting.
Provides critical input to cross-functional engineering teams during proposal, design, manufacturing, and delivery phases of products in development and production phases.
Anticipates and stays ahead of stakeholder expectations; including internal and external customer suppliers, and ensures leadership is up to date on progress of work assigned.
Tracks and reports on program performance metrics including schedule and performance.
Leads failure root cause analysis and corrective actions as needed.
Establishes milestones and monitors adherence to master plans and schedules.
Tracks and manages issues/risks by working with internal and external team members and stakeholders to determine appropriate mitigation and containment actions.
Participates in CCB and ECB activities across engineering and manufacturing groups.
Proactively manages budget; holding teams responsible to program P&Ls.
Manages timing and scope through proactively leading internal processes working closely with Program Engineering teams.
Performs as the primary point of contact with the immediate customer and program office leadership.
Coordinates training requests and activities.
Travels to support assigned programs and teams as required