Senior Program Manager

About Us:

Delivering mission-critical, electronic solutions that protect lives. Use your creativity and critical thinking to take our products from concept to customer.

At CAES, we engineer solutions for the world’s most critical missions. We serve customers in the defense and aerospace markets.

Seeking a career that offers challenging, diverse projects and opportunities? Looking for a position with a company that offers long-term professional advancement? Searching for a place that values a diverse, team-based environment? One that values YOU. Consider CAES.

The most important thing we build is TRUST

Overview:

Are you ready to lead groundbreaking programs at the forefront of technology and defense? CAES is looking for a driven experienced Senior Program Manager to join our Woburn, MA team. In this influential role, you wiill oversee and drive success of high-stakes programs, ensuring they meet strategic goals and exceed expectation.

At CAES, we are committed to excellence, innovation, and makng a difference in the world. Join us and take your career to new heights!!

Responsibilities:

As the Program Manager your main responsibilities will involve:

• Defines the objectives and strategies of the program, to include strategic and company objectives consistent with customer and contractual requirements.
• Develops and implements effective customer communications plans to provide timely communications, represent the Voice of Customer, build customer relationships, define customer objectives, and manage customer satisfaction.
• Controls the timely start and completion of program tasks to assure fulfillment of program cost and schedule objectives. Makes effective use kickoff packages, material plans and program directives to formally communicate program direction and changes.
• Coordinates the program activities with cognizant support functions. Assures the optimum utilization of manpower and program resources. Assures effective management of subcontracts and execution of the program material plan.
• Conducts regular reviews of program performance, evaluating the current and projected status against the approved plan.
• Implements a proactive risk management process. Assures regular team identification, mitigation planning and review of program risks, both during the program-planning phase and regularly during program execution.
• Measures and improves program performance through the investigation of improved processes, tools, staff training, facilities and team dynamics. Performs regular reviews of task estimates, challenging the team to eliminate wasteful approaches. Establishes a management reserve to provide resources for unexpected program challenges.
• Implements an effective issues resolution process. Assures regular team identification, action planning, closure and review of program issues.
• Establishes an objective roadmap for creating new business opportunities from the present program. Manages customer satisfaction to assure a high rate of repeated business. Participates in planning of company capital, IRAD, B&P resources.

Qualifications:

Minimum Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years’ work experience in a related discipline within the DoD industry or a Master's Degree with 3+ years’ work experience in a related discipline within the DoD industry
• Experience managing $500,000+ US Defense related development and production program.
• Experience leading proposal teams and developing proposals, participating in negotiations of contract and contract changes, and developing/managing business plans for assigned programs.
• Strong knowledge of DoD Program Management standards and operating procedures.
• Experience working as a lead, or leading people; ability to lead with integrity, honesty and trust; ability to deliver reliable, unique and leading edge solutions that exceed expectations; ability to act with energy, passion and responsibility; ability to collaborate to leverage and align all elements of the business; ability to inspire every employee to reach his or her full potential and achieve excellence.
• This position requires access to technology, materials, software or hardware that is controlled by US export laws. In order to be eligible for this position, you must be a “US Person” under US export laws (or eligible for approval under a U.S. Government export license).
• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance

Preferred Experience:

• Advanced degree
• Experience working on Antennas, Precision Positioners, and/or RF/Microwave production programs within the DoD industry.
• Program Management experience directing production and development programs from inception through completion.
• Active DoD clearance.

CAES provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, 401K, paid holidays and vacation.

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Employment Transparency:

EMPLOYMENT TRANSPARENCY

BENEFITS

We take care of our people and provide competitive health, wealth and wellbeing benefits – from day one. You’ll also discover learning and development opportunities so you can take your career to the next level – and beyond.

Other benefits include:

• Generous PTO and 11 paid holidays per year
• 9/80 Schedule - Every other Friday Off
• Annual tuition reimbursement
• Tailored management and leadership training

ABOUT CAES

CAES is the largest provider of analog and radiation hardened technology for the United States aerospace and defense industry. From human spaceflight and space exploration, to missile defense and electronic warfare, to healthcare solutions addressing COVID-19, our talented team develop high performing electronic solutions that work the first time, every time.

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER

At CAES we welcome differences and celebrate new ideas. We believe the diversity of our people inspires our creativity and drives our innovation. Everyone is welcome here, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the employment process, please email CAEScareers@caes.com.