Trident Senior Program Manager

Date Posted:

2026-03-12

Country:

United States of America

Location:

US-MA-PITTSFIELD-540-CUST ~ 540 Merrill Rd ~ MERRILL (External Site)

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

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

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.

The Raytheon Air & Space Defense Systems team is seeking an experienced, highly motivated Senior Program Manager (PM) to lead a Navy program within the Mission Systems and Payloads Program Area.  

The selected candidate will be responsible for managing cost, schedule, and technical performance of existing program. Candidate will demonstrate the ability to work within a complex team environment, with multiple customers as well as internal Raytheon Inter-Organizational teammates. Responsibilities include oversight of a Raytheon production team, operating within a multi-company production and repair facility. Responsibilities will include leading efforts in the full program life cycle, including, but not limited to, proposal/capture management, negotiations, contract execution, and closeout. This position will be responsible for managing contracts are varying levels, including design, development, low-rate initial production, full-rate production, and sustainment/repair.

This position is remote with the candidate located in Massachusetts. Travel to Pittsfield MA, as well as Cambridge MA will be required.

What You Will Do

• Meet contractual commitments including the financial, quality, cost efficiency, technical and schedule performance

• Develop partnerships with both Raytheon and customer cross-functional teams (Engineering, Contracts, Finance, Operations & Supply Chain, Quality, etc.)

• Develop and maintain excellent relationships with multiple customer counterparts

• Travel to production facility or customer locations for customer meetings, issue resolution, and leadership reviews (twice per month on average)

• Work with production team on planning, material availability, and resource constraints, while identifying opportunities for cost and schedule efficiencies

• Leading all capture/proposal activities for future contracts

• Establish and execute baseline schedule, negotiating and executing change requirements

• Execute multiple concurrent production, repair, and development contracts

• Identify strategic opportunities for Raytheon to grow support and scope on the program

• Support the program team on identification, onboarding, support, and sustainment of complex integrated supply chain

• Drive a cross-functional, multi company team executing a sustainment program, while simultaneously integrating a design to development program in the same facility

• Ensure implementation of a robust Risk & Opportunity Management plan, including proactive schedule risk management, to ensure predictable program performance 

• Responsible for as-needed facilitating and driving contract modifications and changes

• Prepare and submit monthly contract SDRL/CDRL deliverables

• Monthly travel to customer facility in Cambridge MA also required.

• Up to 50% travel required to Pittsfield MA and customer locations

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years of prior relevant experience in program management or an Advanced degree in a related field and minimum 7 years experience

• Program management experience in multiple program lifecycle phases, including development, transition-to-production, production and/or sustainment

• Experience leading proposal activity

• Experience leading cross-functional teams

• An active and transferable Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date with the ability to obtain program access