Program Manager

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: The program manager position requires a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, business or a specialized area (e.g., computer science, mathematics), or the equivalent and demonstrated leadership to meet the leadership and market intimacy expectations. 8+ years of domain experience related to DoD and intelligence agency requirements. Demonstrated functional expertise in two or more areas (3 preferred): program management, mechanical, civil, electrical, software, and systems engineering operations, and business development.

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS:  Department of Defense and/or Industrial Security Top Secret clearance  is required at time of hire. Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.

Job Description: 

GDMS has an immediate opening for a Program Manager to join our team in the Intelligence Systems Business Area working in our Analysis, Collection, and Exploitation Segment. 

Basic Qualifications:

Candidates must demonstrate a passion for innovation, a sophisticated understanding of markets and buyers and technical acumen to drive technology and features. Position requires an individual who can represent a program in the marketplace with potential customers, a drive to connect with those customers to understand their needs and ensure we are delivering a product that will be successful in the market to further advance General Dynamics Mission Systems' success. Candidates must be willing to work in a fast-paced, market-driven environment, take ownership of meeting tough deadlines and demanding the best from themselves and their teams and demonstrate good judgment across a broad set of disciplines.

Required Skills:

Knowledge of engineering disciplines and the ability to apply technology, planning and cost estimating. Effective written and presentation kills, ability to lead teams, solving challenging business problems, understanding of markets and buyers, flexibility to multitask and reprioritize to meet changing business needs in fast paced environment.  Knowledge of the full program lifecycle, to include planning and execution.  Familiarity with the full product lifecycle is highly valued. 

Responsibilities for this Position: 

This position provides an opportunity for a leader to assume the full-time program management of an established ten-year program with the Intelligence Community, with 40 years of continuous support to the customer mission. We seek an individual who is able to lead a cross-functional team consisting of Mechanical, Civil Engineers, Electrical, Software, and Systems Engineering, Technicians, and Logisticians. Central to success will be the ability to direct the two core areas of the program: rapid response mission tasking (in support of an upcoming or ongoing customer field installation) and developments (longer-term engineering activities focused on improving the customer’s ability to perform field installations).

Success will require cross collaboration with Executive Management, Finance, Contracts, Engineering, Resource Management, and Manufacturing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee all activities for the program from definition to development, launch, release, upgrades, and sustainment
• Represent the program(s) as the expert and champion with knowledge of technical specifications and requirements, market and customer/user needs, and market competition
• Create the technical roadmap with recommended features and enhancements and prioritization of market driven requirements to meet market needs, ROI, Sales and growth objectives
• Define business/user requirements for IS program(s)/product(s) and upgrades
• Recommend the scope of present and future program(s)/product(s) by reviewing and recommending new ideas
• Drive program strategies that drive baselines across the portfolio by planning, scheduling, estimating, and conducting reviews for individual milestones
• Manage and drive internal gate reviews to execute commitments including staffing coordination with Engineering Resource Management
• Formulate and execute long-term plans cost/profit control
• Act as Government interface for program development support, compliance and releases approvals and certifications
• Manage Configuration Control for program(s)/product(s)
• Develops, defines and executes program plans, schedules, budgets and deliverables
• Lead the development of strategies for winning development programs and ensure the team is creating compelling proposals based on scientific and technical rigor coupled with a solid understanding of the customers’ needs, desires, and constraints
• Serve as the primary point of contact to customer organizations and develop trusted relationships earned through genuine and productive engagements focused on collaborative problem solving
• Leads the establishment of and sets integrated WBS-based budget and schedule baselines including management reserve for advanced development programs/products or major subcontracts where the scope is not well defined and there is significant possibility for change
• Monitors work accomplished to baseline plans to ensure rate of work completion is sufficient to meet program/product schedules, develops corrective actions, and communicate issues, impacts and corrective actions to program teams
• Balances programs, risks and opportunities with executable strategies to meet technical requirements and budgets
• Manages people who lead department or cross-functional program teams in matrix organization to achieve schedule, cost, and technical performance objectives
• Interfaces with customers on technical matters regarding program/products
• Provide reporting and status to Leadership team

Support business leadership in performing:

• Market Analysis to identify and quantify market needs and identifies opportunities as well as evaluating competitor offerings
• Strategic Planning to capture the approach to maximize return from investment in the market and align with available resources and plans
• Program/Product Planning to refine scope, schedule of the complete Program/Product Plan

• Risks and Opportunities management, identifying, tracking and mitigating accordingly

• Configuration Control of the program/product baselines
• Program Life-cycle Management, from initial concept through product end of life

Required Traits: Passion for program management and excellence, user focused and business savvy, sharp decision maker, creativity, agility, intelligence, drive to hit targets and meet plans, strong work ethic, high integrity, and an understanding of the intelligence market to include customers, competitors, products, and technology trends

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General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS) engineers a diverse portfolio of high technology solutions, products and services that enable customers to successfully execute missions across all domains of operation. With a global team of 12,000+ top professionals, we partner with the best in industry to expand the bounds of innovation in the defense and scientific arenas. Given the nature of our work and who we are, we value trust, honesty, alignment and transparency. We offer highly competitive benefits and pride ourselves in being a great place to work with a shared sense of purpose. You will also enjoy a flexible work environment where contributions are recognized and rewarded. If who we are and what we do resonates with you, we invite you to join our high-performance team!

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