Senior Program Manager
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Kraus Hamdani AerospaceAerospace, defense
Location: Remote, United StatesFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Experience
- Eight or more years of relevant program or project management experience, including at least three years leading complex technical programs across multiple functions.
- Required Skills
- Project ManagementRisk Management
Requirements
- Eight or more years of relevant program or project management experience.
- At least three years leading complex technical programs across multiple functions.
- Demonstrated delivery of aerospace, defense, unmanned systems, robotics, or comparable hardware and software programs through customer acceptance.
- Experience managing program budgets, forecasts, integrated schedules, contractual deliverables, risks, and changes.
- Ability to lead through influence, resolve competing priorities, and secure commitments from functional teams.
- Strong customer-facing communication and executive briefing skills, including explaining technical tradeoffs and escalating issues with actionable recommendations.
- Working knowledge of engineering development, systems integration, verification and validation, manufacturing, and field operations.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, program management, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional or military experience.
- Preferred: experience with unmanned aircraft, autonomy, intelligence and surveillance systems, payload integration, or airborne communications.
- Preferred: experience supporting U.S. government or international defense customers and familiarity with government contracting, subcontract management, and export or security requirements.
- Preferred: PMP certification or equivalent training.
Responsibilities
- Establish and mature the company’s Program Management Office, including standardized processes, governance, reporting, and tools.
- Lead complex customer programs, defining integrated schedules, budgets, milestones, deliverables, acceptance criteria, and ownership.
- Train, mentor, and develop Project Managers through coaching, feedback, and progressive delegation.
- Partner with Business Development and Solutions Engineering on proposals, estimates, execution assumptions, and customer commitments.
- Translate contract requirements into coordinated engineering, production, test, and delivery plans.
- Manage program budgets, actual costs, forecasts, estimates at completion, and margin risks with Finance.
- Lead customer reviews, communicate program progress and risks, and resolve delivery issues.
- Control scope and contract changes, assessing impacts and securing required approvals.
- Coordinate deployment readiness, supplier and subcontractor deliverables, contractual reporting, customer acceptance, and billing milestones.
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