Principal Program Manager
Fort Wayne, Indiana
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Job Title: Principal Program Manager
Job Code: 35105
Job Location: Fort Wayne, IN
Job Schedule: 9/80 (Every other Friday off)
Job Description:
For the past 60 years, from the dawn of the Space Age, our L3Harris weather business has been an industry-leading provider of high-precision, space-based instruments for severe weather tracking and forecasting and low-latency, high-throughput ground systems providing command, control, communications, data processing, and spectrum management for domestic and international customers. We are looking for a program manager who will be responsible for successful program execution, customer satisfaction, and financial performance in this rapidly growing business area.
The Program Manger leads execution of all phases of programs from start-up to delivery for customers. By drawing upon technical development and project management experience, the Program Manager develops strategies to influence programmatic direction and enable both program and business success.
In this position, the Program Manager will communicate directly with customers, suppliers, leadership, and cross-functional program teams. Opportunities for problem solving and innovation are regularly complex, requiring broad-based consideration of variables that impact multiple areas of the organization
Essential Functions:
- Accountable for overall program performance commitments to include:
- Customer Satisfaction: Continually delighting our customers with our values, responsiveness, and overall mission performance
- Financial: Orders, sales, operating income, investment, cash flow, budget, and reserve forecasting and execution
- Schedule: Timely, responsive, and successful completion of all program activities (informal) and deliverables (formal)
- Quality: Program deliverables meet or exceed L3Harris and customer expectations
- Collaborates with the supply chain organization to develop and execute strategic plan to ensure supplier performance and alignment with L3Harris program execution and business financial performance
- Responsible for managing the cost, schedule, and technical performance requirements of a program through all lifecycle phases
- Identifies program risks and creates opportunities to manage the operational impacts
- Responsible for program change management, controlling program performance measurement baseline of cost, schedule, and performance
- Develops, reviews, and approves plans, schedules, subcontract agreements, and other program documents
- Coordinates and monitors supplier activities, deliverables, and finances, and aligns supplier performance with L3Harris business financial performance
- Ensures that all resources such as engineering, manpower, production, and facilities are available to support the program
- Ensures clear understanding and communication of program status, changes, and performance to the Customer and L3Harris leadership
- Prepares and provides reports, briefings, and technical reviews to the Customer and L3Harris leadership
- Leads the preparation of program proposals, proposal scope, budget and expenditure plans, and financial terms of contract
Qualifications:
- Masters in STEM with a minimum of 9 years of experience or Bachelors in STEM with a minimum of 11 years of experience in development of high-reliability, space-based products
- This experience will include:
- Managing technology development program(s) with annual revenues of $10M+
- Managing cross disciplined workforce of approximately 25+
- Managing subcontractors and suppliers in a performance-based environment
- Managing capital asset development
- Experience in Earned Value Management
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal skills for both internal and external customers
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Experience with Earned Value Management (EVM)
- Experience with space-based hardware development programs or infrared remote sensing
- Strong customer relations with NASA, NOAA, or DOD customers
- Experience managing large, complex development subcontractor performance
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