Senior Program Manager-Defense Solutions

Curtiss-Wright Corporation is seeking a Senior Program Manager for their Defense Solutions division in Ashburn, VA. In this role, you will oversee the performance of programs, manage technical budgets, lead multi-disciplinary teams, and pursue new business opportunities while ensuring customer satisfaction.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the principal point of contact to key military and commercial customers
• Demonstrate technical program leadership within the Rugged Embedded Computing industry
• Manage technical, multi-million dollar budgets, scheduling and leading action-oriented teams in the execution of rugged embedded computing and security processing development programs
• Ownership of the schedule and cost management on programs managed
• Holds program and proposal Kick-off Meetings, establishing baselines for planned cost, design configuration and schedule
• Establishes and tracks metrics to monitor performance and progress
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams within a matrixed organization
• Act as a central authority for the Company in its relationship with internal and external customers
• Establish program status reporting to anticipate and take corrective action in problem areas before they occur, with appropriate line organization
• Takes a proactive stance by developing contingency plans in potential risk areas and identifying contingency plan deployment criteria to resolve potential problems
• Reports potential problems to upper management
• Ensure pertinent written records are maintained that document all agreements / commitments related to the project
• Actively pursue new business and will be responsible to coordinate proposal responses both formal RFPs and informal inquiries
• Work with Engineering and support organizations to analyze proposals with respect to cost/risk/quality, lead source selections and negotiation teams, and monitor subcontract costs, schedules, and technical performance

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical or computer engineering preferred (or equivalent)
• Program Management Professional (PgMP) and Project Management Professional (PMP) certification highly desired
• A minimum of 5 years related experience
• Extensive background in strategic planning, competitive assessments, and bidding/acquisition of multi-million dollar contracts
• Experience in working with the Defense and Aerospace customer community and in serving as a principal point of contact to key military and commercial customers
• Management leadership of annual multi-million dollar budget
• Strong interpersonal skills especially in team building/maintenance and customer relationships
• Technical and program leadership experience and familiarity with the Single Board Computer industry and integrated systems development are required
• Should have experience with customer communications, negotiations and proposal management
• Contribute to weekly and monthly strategic planning, plan execution and technology roadmap updates and must be able to keep team members focused on schedule milestones and objectives and must motivate team members to develop cost effective, customer-oriented solutions and approaches
• Must be able to act independently and make decisions on administrative / operational issues affecting the success of this organization
• Must be a US citizen and able to obtain and maintain a DOD Security clearance