Sr. Program Manager (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-08-18

Country:

United States of America

Location:

MA802: Marlborough, MA Building 1 1001 Boston Post Road Building 1, Marlborough, MA, 01752 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance​

Security Clearance:

DoD Clearance: Secret

Raytheon Company, Managed by Collins Aerospace

Collins Mission Systems is seeking a Senior Manager to support a satellite communications terminal development program in Protected Communication Systems (PCS). This is a critical leadership role on the program management team and an excellent opportunity for the candidate to gain significant program management experience.

The Senior Manager will be responsible for overseeing program execution including external earned value reporting, engaging with supply chain, operations, and engineering for engineering development model (EDM) procurement and build, and leading proposal activities for engineering change proposals (ECPs) and future production. The role will expand to include initial production efforts upon the award of the production contract.

This role requires a leader with a strong command of PM best practices to enhance program execution. The leader must have an executive leadership presence, confidently lead across complex cross functional teams and customer stakeholders, foster a culture of accountability and execution excellence, and role model RTX values and leadership behaviors.

The Senior Manager supports strategy, vision and tactical direction and meets contractual commitments and company expectations. This role supports downward communication of top-level project goals, objectives and decisions and upward communication of program performance to senior management. 

The role is on-site, based at either our Marlborough, MA or Largo, FL sites with up to 15% travel domestically.

What You Will Do:

• Assures on-time execution of contracts and proposal submittals through empowerment, communication, setting expectations, and building teams.
• Acts as empowered authority to accomplish objectives.
• Drives tactical execution while meeting strategic objectives. 
• Establishes and maintains key programmatic metrics, defines milestones, critical path and monitors adherence to program budgets and schedules.
• Supports the program Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and long term financial outlook and commits to specific financial goals and obligations.
• Leads the collaboration necessary across functional groups, broader RTX organizations and subcontractors to ensure program success. Ensures that functional resources, tools, and processes are utilized in a consistent way.
• Supports initiatives to drive down cost, improve performance, and win competitions.
• Maintains an energetic and productive work force. Provides leadership to indirect reports, multi-functional teams and key partners with abilities to organize and prioritize to ensure successful execution of all commitments.
• Establishes strong and purposeful relationships with customer. Maintains lines of communication with the customer to assure timely awareness and customer trust.
• Supports growth strategies, with a significant focus on growing the business for both existing capabilities and future capabilities.  

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires: Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of prior relevant experience OR  Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
• Minimum of 10 years of leadership experience in government, defense, aerospace or related industry.
• Experience with Government contracting requirements and the DoD acquisition management process.
• Experience leading development and production programs.
• A strong command of PM best practices to enhance program execution with demonstrated experience managing and overseeing program management tools such as R/O Management, Cost and Schedule Management and Earned Value Management.
• Demonstrated understanding of the Estimate at Complete (EAC) process
• Demonstrated understanding of the Earned Value Management System (EVMS) process

What We Offer :

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent soluti