Senior Program Manager (EW/ SIGINT- DRT)

Overview

Thales Defense & Security, Inc. (TDSI) Headquartered in Clarksburg, MD, is a U.S. company that has been serving domestic and international defense Air, Land and Sea domains for 60 years. With over 1000 employees, TDSI and its three subsidiaries (Tampa Microwave, Advanced Acoustic Concepts, and Trusted Cyber Technologies), supports U.S. Joint Services, special operations forces and multi-national partners with a variety of communication, visualization, electronic warfare, and sensor/sonar capabilities. TDSI’s key technologies include tactical handheld radios, expeditionary satellite terminals, helmet-mounted displays, optics and target recognition capability, advanced radars, undersea sensing and missile systems. Lives depend on what we do!

Top Benefits (Subject to terms of applicable policies/plans)

• Competitive Salary
• Yearly Incentive Compensation Plan
• Medical insurance for self and eligible family members
• Generous 401(k) program  - up to 7% company contribution and 100% immediate vesting
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid wellness, vacation, and holiday leave
• Paid maternity, paternity, and parental leave
• 9/80 Work Schedule (every other Friday off)
• Hybrid working enivronment 

Thales Defense & Security, Inc. seeks an experienced Senior Program Manager supporting our DRT line of SIGINT/ Electronic Warefare products.  This position reports directly to the VP of Program Management.

Responsibilities

• Program management of Government, Prime Contractor, and/or Internal Research & Development programs with durations from several months up to multi-year efforts. Responsible for budget, schedule, and technical performance, to include monitoring, controlling and reporting status of assigned programs, including cost, schedule and technical performance.
• Conduct project planning activities during all phases of the program.
• Track program/project against its schedule and budget, and against phase review objectives.
• Collaborate with business leads, project leads, and engineering management to resolve program issues, coordinating resources, and managing design activities.
• Build on and strengthen relationship with US Army, including PEO IEW&S, C5ISR and other relevant groups.
• Lead and/or support product development reviews, project planning, proposal and bid generation, and product requirements generation.
• Review, analyze, and interpret the technical and programmatic requirements contained in requests for proposal (RFP), requests for quotation (RFQ), requests for information (RFI), information for bid (IFB), etc., to generate material used in preparation of formal responses.
• Identifies opportunities to maximize revenue and assesses risk areas while supporting development of mitigation and recovery plans with least impact to business and customer objectives.
• Work with customers to negotiate contracts, change orders, program issues, and to identify opportunities for new funded project scope.
• Participates in periodic forecasting exercises, and annual budgeting process as required.

Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• U.S. Citizenship Required, along with the ability to obtain and maintain U.S. Top Secret or SCI Level Security Clearance upon hire (current TS/SCI preferred).
• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical or business-related discipline. PMP certification preferred.
• 4-8 years+ of Program Management Experience in Government contracting.
• 5+ years hands on engineering or other relevant experience in a technical role.
  • Experience with software defined radio, SIGINT and/or electronic warfare products highly preferred. 
• Experience with Earned Value Management System or similar project performance tracking methods (to include schedule and cost baseline development).
• Experience leading cross functional teams of 10 or more people.
• Ability to work in a team environment and interact with employees in all departments and functions.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Project or equivalent.
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills with an ability to negotiate and work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with experience presenting to senior leaders and customers.
• Strong bid/proposal management skills. Adapt bids across multiple design/build prime and subcontract structures.
• Familiarity working wi