WENCOR · 6 hours ago
Program Manager
Santa Barbara Infrared, Inc. is a successful subsidiary of HEICO Corporation, focusing on innovative products in the aerospace, defense, and electronics industries. The Program Manager will be responsible for generating and managing comprehensive program plans, leading engineering and production teams, and ensuring technical performance compliance.
AerospaceManufacturingMechanical Engineering
Responsibilities
Generates, manages and coordinates comprehensive program plans, schedules, budgets and technical performance for SBIR programs
Provides leadership and direction to the engineering, design, and production teams for program deliverables. Sets and continuously manages project expectations with team members and other stakeholders
Owns program performance by maintaining intimate awareness of technical product performance requirements, and by enforcing disciplined concept and design reviews that robustly demonstrate compliance with those performance requirements
Ensures that same technical performance diligence is flowed down to SBIR’s sub-contractors and suppliers, and ensures that the same technical discipline is adhered to when validating sourced sub-assemblies and critical parts
Interacts on a regular basis with customer program stakeholders to provide status and understand requirements and expectations. Manages the relationship with the customer
Proactively manages changes in project scope, assesses risks and builds contingencies into program plans
Generates, in concert with technical and functional team members, and owns program work breakdown structure (WBS)
Works closely with SBIR engineering, procurement, production, and quality departments as well as vendors to ensure work plans and resource allocation support program goals
Supports proposal efforts by providing costing; schedules, estimated labor in concert with vendors and engineering; technical proposal writing and editing; kickoff meetings, TIM’s and CDR’s
Manages multiple programs (5 to 10) that total 10 to 15 million in annual revenue
Must be able to make programmatic decisions when presented with conflicting or incomplete information from technical staff. Understands and manages technical risks
Works with Accounting department to maintain ETC’s, EAC’s and spend plans
Stays in sync with Finance department on spending and on-contract labor execution, to facilitate accurate P&L forecasting for CPFF and Percent-Complete contracts
Provides monthly program updates to senior management
Indirectly supervises and manages team members that work on specific programs
Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws
Qualification
Required
Generates, manages and coordinates comprehensive program plans, schedules, budgets and technical performance for SBIR programs
Provides leadership and direction to the engineering, design, and production teams for program deliverables
Sets and continuously manages project expectations with team members and other stakeholders
Owns program performance by maintaining intimate awareness of technical product performance requirements
Enforces disciplined concept and design reviews that robustly demonstrate compliance with performance requirements
Ensures that technical performance diligence is flowed down to SBIR's sub-contractors and suppliers
Ensures that technical discipline is adhered to when validating sourced sub-assemblies and critical parts
Interacts on a regular basis with customer program stakeholders to provide status and understand requirements and expectations
Manages the relationship with the customer
Proactively manages changes in project scope, assesses risks and builds contingencies into program plans
Generates, in concert with technical and functional team members, and owns program work breakdown structure (WBS)
Works closely with SBIR engineering, procurement, production, and quality departments as well as vendors to ensure work plans and resource allocation support program goals
Supports proposal efforts by providing costing; schedules, estimated labor in concert with vendors and engineering; technical proposal writing and editing; kickoff meetings, TIM's and CDR's
Manages multiple programs (5 to 10) that total 10 to 15 million in annual revenue
Must be able to make programmatic decisions when presented with conflicting or incomplete information from technical staff
Understands and manages technical risks
Works with Accounting department to maintain ETC's, EAC's and spend plans
Stays in sync with Finance department on spending and on-contract labor execution, to facilitate accurate P&L forecasting for CPFF and Percent-Complete contracts
Provides monthly program updates to senior management
Indirectly supervises and manages team members that work on specific programs
Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws
Company
WENCOR
Wencor has been a trusted partner in aerospace for over 70 years, offering PMA design and development, CMM and DER repairs, and an extensive network of distribution solutions which offer increased availability, improved product reliability and cost effectiveness.
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unknown2023-05-15Acquired
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