Program Controls Manager

About This Role

Who We Are:

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, civil aviation, and healthcare by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness.
• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.
• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.
   

What We Have to Offer:

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance
• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe
• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions
• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun!
   

Summary 

CAE USA is seeking a Program Controls Manager to lead a team dedicated to the project controls execution of  our high-fidelity training product lines. Our customer committed to use high-fidelity simulation in their upcoming projects and as a result this product line will grow significantly over the next five+ years. This position will also be the primary customer interface regularly reporting on program performance and status.   
 

Projects generally span multiple years and range from design and development to production and sustainment.  Success in this role requires extensive knowledge and expertise in largescale project management, scheduling, earned value management, hardware engineering, subcontract and material management as well as cross functional leadership. Further, the successful candidate will be responsible for leading cost and schedule execution for a geographically dispersed team with multiple partner companies (large and small), as well as managing a customer with extremely high expectations and requirements. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Direct project controls aspects in all phases of a very large and complex DoD program from initial program planning and proposal development through all phases of engineering development and production to successful product delivery and timely closeout of completed programs to ensure that all obligations are satisfied, and program documentation is properly recorded.
• Develop and implement standardized project controls to manage budgets, schedule and quality for engineering, construction, and other types of projects.
• Establish controls and operating policies that identify, monitor, and mitigate risk factors that could impact the success of a project.
• Ensure controls address cost and budget considerations, scope changes, supplier performance, and other risk levels.
• Provide guidance and consultation to program manager and higher management.
• Support the program manager in meeting program execution cost, technical and schedule requirements as well as company financial targets.
• Partner with supply chain management to lead/coordinate a project controls team with multiple industrial partners, sub-contractors and large supplier base.
• Communicate project controls status, issues, risks, opportunities, and plans to internal executive management. 
• Support the development and maintenance of the program integrated master schedule to include the internal and external milestones and phases as established by the respective program teams.
• Ensure advanced integrated scheduling across multiple business partners provides a persistent view of the critical path.  This includes developing and implementing plans and schedules to execute contracts/subcontracts. Report program status to executive management as required.
• Establish and monitor adherence to program master plans and schedules, identify program problems, obtain solutions, direct allocation of resources.
• Develop and implement corrective action plans when deviation