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Program Manager I - Global Solutions (Contingent Upon Award)
Sierra Nevada CorporationUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 14 Aug 2025
💰 $149,183/yr($108,497/yr – $149,183/yr)
About the role
Are you ready to use your leadership and skills in a program management position? This is your opportunity! As a Program Manager I, you will support the business objectives at SNC. You will be responsible for all programmatic aspects of multiple assigned projects with specifically focused responsibility for customer relationship, cost, schedule and technical planning, tracking and reporting, technical execution, and ensuring achievement of overall program performance objectives. As a Program Manager I, you will partner with a Project Engineer to manage programs with varying development scope, with moderate to medium complexity and requiring medium to high customer interaction. You will lead the work of program staff and be the primary POC for international customers. You will participate in business resource planning/tracking in coordination with other corporate entities and responsible to formulate a team that can fulfill program requirements. You will be responsible for ensuring program issues and problems are identified, tracked, and resolved; and for program risk and opportunity management and ensuring risks and opportunities are identified, mitigated, tracked, and managed. You'll be responsible for interfacing on program status, developing proposals, researching/fact-finding, coordinating audits, and negotiating with project/program stakeholders to ensure enterprise initiatives meet cost, budget, and schedule constraints. You will support the Program Director and Finance in fulfilling their responsibilities for the Business Area.The ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance), Aviation, and Security (IAS) business area is a leader in ISR and aviation, it is a leading prime manned and unmanned aircraft systems integrator for innovative, high-performance ISR and aviation systems. Its end-to-end Command, Control, Computers, Communications and Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities encompass design, integration, test, certification, ground/flight training and complete logistics support. IAS tailors solutions to customer cost, performance, and schedule requirements and designs to consistently exceed expectations – with an unrivaled record of on time and on (or under) budget deliveries.
Qualifications You Must Have:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Project Management, Management, Engineering or related field
- Typically 5+ years of progressive experience in project or program management
- Minimum 1+ year experience leading teams made up of 3+ cross functional team members
- Experience with the evaluation of requests for proposals and/or quotes. Experience with preparing, reviewing, and submitting proposals and/or quotes.
- Experience with contract negotiations, and the difference in contract types.
- Experience with managing multiple projects and/or a small program.
- Experience with being the primary focal for a customer.
- Demonstrated financial acumen to ensure decisions are fiscally sound and responsible.
- Ability to execute coordination of all elements of a program, i.e., Program integration management. Perform task coordination, resource development, stakeholder identification, etc. Capability to manage program lifecycle conflicts, prioritize competing priorities/requests, and evaluate available resources.
- Leadership abilities inclusive of successful change management, mentoring, career development, training, succession planning, holding people accountable, and conducting yearly reviews.
- Requires ability to manage complex situations, delegate authority, lead and inspire your team, drive innovative thinking, instill collaboration, drive for success, challenge status quo, and demonstrate the ability to adapt to dynamic situations.
- Requires skills in team building, time management, conflict resolution, communication, briefing, presentation, strategic thinking, marketing, and literacy in the program management disciplines.
- Ability to obtain and maintain US Secret Clearance
Qualifications We Prefer:
- Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification (will not be considered in lieu of required experience)
Experience collaborating with diverse cultures
Experience travelling internationally
- Advanced degree in Business, Management, Engineering or related field (may be considered in lieu of 1 year of required project/program management experience)
- Understanding of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFARS)
- Working knowledge of Program Management Institute Program Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)
- Managing projects using Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), agile, and or spiral development models
- Familiarity with projects requiring Earned Value Management<
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