Associate Director, Program Management - Optronics (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2026-05-13

Country:

United States of America

Location:

US-CA-CARLSBAD-582 ~ 2752 Loker Ave W ~ LOKER

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 Type:

DoD Clearance: Secret

Security Clearance Status:

Active and existing security clearance required on day 1

We are looking for an Associate Director to work onsite at our Carlsbad, California facility. You will have P&L responsibilities for the Optronics business and the Carlsbad site. The scope of responsibility spans across strategic and tactical elements and include profit and loss management. You will lead a team of program management professionals. The successful candidate will be responsible for profit/loss ownership and for working with all functions to meet dynamic sales, profit, and cash goals and to improve productivity while ensuring execution of the annual 5-year business plan to meet commitments.

What You Will Do

• Partner at multiple levels within the enterprise to capture business and ensure execution success
• Establish and maintain strong customer relationships
• Execute program growth strategies for domestic and international growth
• Understand and represent customer needs to leadership while building and maintaining
• excellent relationships with customers and key suppliers
• Coordinate and align interactions, dependencies, and transactions between customers and other primes
• Attract, retain, supervise, and develop talent 
• Travel to support business engagements

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years of experience
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued Secret security clearance is required prior to start date
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
• Program management or project management experience leading US government and/or international contracts
• Experience leading proposal capture activities
• Experience managing cost, schedule, financial forecast, and technical performance for programs using Earned Value Management System (EVMS), Integrated Master Plan (IMP), Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), Risk and Opportunity Management, or similar business processes
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and reporting out to executive stakeholders

Qualifications We Prefer

• Proven success creating and maintaining strong executive level relationships with suppliers, customers, government representatives, primes and internal peers
• Experience with high rate, high mix manufacturing oversight
• Proven success creating and maintaining strong relationships with suppliers, customers,
• government representatives, primes and internal peers
• Experience working with customers on government programs with complexity requiring
• direct customer interfaces, both internal and external
• Experience developing and implementing execution, coordination, and growth strategies

What We Offer:

Some of our competitive benefits package includes: 

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees

• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option

• Tuition reimbursement program

• Student Loan Repayment Program

• Life insurance and disability coverage

• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection

• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits

• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning

• Adoption Assistance         

• Autism Benefit

• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions

• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program

• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits

• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services

• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program

• And more! 

Relocation Eligibility

• Eligible for relocation