Lead, Program Manager

Job Title: Lead, Program Management

Job Code: 46434

Job Location: Greenville, Texas

Job Schedule: 9/80 Regular: Off every other Friday, 1st Shift

About L3Harris Technologies:

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 47,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.

Job Description:

The Lead, Program Management, is responsible for managing the onsite development, integration, and test of an AEW platform mission system and supporting the management of an OCONUS subcontractor’s portion of the mission system. You will serve as the pivotal lead that provides seamless execution and oversight across the various Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) including Material & Supply Chain, Subcontracts, Airframe, Engineering, and Operations. Your role encompasses comprehensive responsibility for the program’s cost, schedule, and technical performance, ensuring all objectives and payment milestones are met. Additionally, you will interface directly with the end-user, major subcontractors, and executive leadership on a weekly basis.

The growth path for this position includes a transition to a similar role with an ISR platform, with a focus on managing the ground systems that support the airborne platform. The airborne platform on both programs is a modified G550 aircraft.

Key Responsibilities

• Program Leadership: Serve as the Mission/Ground System and Subcontractor Manager IPT Lead, offering strategic direction and robust leadership to team leaders to align with overarching program goals
• Milestone Management: Establish and monitor execution milestones to adhere to master schedules and payment timelines
• Oversight and Coordination: Maintain and monitor oversight of critical program elements, including material & supply chain, subcontracts, engineering, and operations, to ensure seamless integration, test, and delivery
• Performance Management: Utilize a comprehensive understanding of EVMS to meet or exceed financial, schedule, and technical performance indicators
• Stakeholder Interaction: Act as the primary point of contact for the end-user and executive leadership, facilitating transparent communication and achieving contract milestones
• Risk Assessment: Identify challenges, opportunities, and risks across the program, developing strategies to address them effectively

Essential Functions:

• Provide oversight and manage the modification, integration, and test activities; to include schedules, internal/external meetings, customer presentations, and departmental budgets
• Review potential changes in contract scope and advise management and customer of the impact
• Direct the work of functional employees in the execution of the assigned projects while establishing and monitoring performance to schedules, plans, and milestones
• Respond to the customer's needs and be able to respond to quick reaction needs. As required, support request/coordination outside of normal business hours
• Brief customer, end-user, and upper management on all facets of the assigned projects

Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree, and seven (7) years of direct program management experience related to FAA military programs
• Must have ability to obtain a Secret Clearance, and eventually a Top Secret (SCI) clearance
• Experience in Commercial, Department of Defense, and/or Military Aviation/Aerospace products development and production
• Must have experience in preparation of business plans, proposal work statements and specifications, operating budgets, and financial terms/conditions of contracts
• Strong project management skills, outstanding communication (both verbally and written), negotiation, organizational, time management, and leadership skills
• Must be able to interface with engineering, manufacturing, operations, and management personnel onsite and offsite

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Strong subcontractor management is desired
• Knowledge of FAA qualifications/certification is preferred
• Experience managing aircraft and ground integration efforts is preferred
• Knowledge of manpower planning, milestone scheduling, PM tools, and related financial management
• Experience with Earned Value Management System preferred.
• Experience with Microsoft Project and development of an Integrated Master Schedule preferred
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Power BI dashboards is a plus.
• Proven ability to utilize metrics to identify trends and drive results
• Ability to execute program results while maintaining compliance with policies, procedures and process
• Continuous improvement effort through all phases of program execution