Program Director (VSL), Navy Aircraft Mission System - Active Top Secret Required (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-01-16

Country:

United States of America

Location:

FL410: Largo FL MFG 7887 Bryan Dairy Road , Largo, FL, 33777 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market. 

The Integrated Solutions portfolio in the Protected Communications Systems (PCS) business area has an immediate need for a Program Director - Value Stream Leader (VSL) in our growing portfolio to support the recent win of a Navy Aircraft program. Our team is responsible for the mission voice communications and support for mission C2 data infrastructure.  The mission system is a combination of Nuclear Command and Control (NC3) and Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) for national strategic communications.   

We are seeking a highly experienced and skilled Program Director to lead a large aircraft mission system integration program through all life cycle phase from development to production and sustainment.      

The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge and expertise in Program Management, with a proven track record of leading successful large program teams (100+ cross functional staff) in the aerospace and defense industry. As the program director, responsibilities encompass the full end to end lifecycle of product development, production, and sustainment; shaping, capturing and negotiating new business; program and business strategy; operational excellence and demonstrated superior external-customer support. This includes developing the vision and strategy for the new program, its program plans, schedules and budgets, as well as managing prime customer and US Navy relationships, ensuring adherence to program goals and objectives.  The PM will serve the key leader of the program and a key leader in the Integrated Solutions program area, setting the strategy and direction for the development, production, growth, and Annual Operating Plan (AOP) commitments of the program to the parent business, with profit and loss accountability of an $80M/yr+ program.   

What you will do: 

• Lead all phases of the program, ensuring adherence to program plans, schedules, and budgets. 

• Accountable for total program execution and growth, meeting contractual commitments including financial, technical, and schedule performance of the primary program (and future, new programs) within the program portfolio and Integrated Solutions portfolio 

• Lead the development of annual financial targets within the portfolio - accountable to the program area director in meeting EAC, AOP, and other targets as set by the business 

• Develop program growth strategies focused on creating value added ECPs and meeting the program AOP. 

• Support and direct ECP and new business capture and proposal activities  

• Cultivate relationships and own the customer relationships with prime contractor customer, US government (USG) customer and other industry