Principal Program Manager

The Principal Program Manager is a leader who drives customer requirements, schedules, resources, and overall program progress to ensure customer satisfaction and our business success. The Principal Program Manager owns on-time execution of customer deliverables, can excel as a technical liaison, and can bring together complex technical and operational inputs to meet program milestones.

Responsibilities:

• Drives program progress, from identification of market need through sustainment and obsolescence
• Manages the customer relationship, responsible for customer satisfaction, and builds long-term strategic partnerships with the customer by providing proactive solutions to challenging problems.
• Responsible for defining program objectives as well as advocating for and aligning resources required to execute
• Responsible for the program budget, schedule, and Key Results (KRs) and their performance; regularly monitors and reports on program health, including ownership of Program Review material preparation and presentation. Identifies risks to program health and mitigates that risk proactively.
• Owns the schedule for the program. Responsible for pulling inputs from across the company and re-baselining as changes occur.
• Owns evaluation of technical and program risks/opportunities, drives mitigations of risk and realization of opportunities
• Identifies and helps realize program or product opportunities to strength the business
• Drives program technical and operational objectives, while ensuring program progress and on-time delivery
• Serve as the primary customer point of contact (POC), manage contract scope, prepare material for and hosting regular customer check-in meetings, and lead the preparation of contract deliverables
• Leads efforts to write, review, and deliver technical deliverables with team members
• Support business development and capture efforts with programmatic inputs, including cost and schedule.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field, Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering.
• 12+ years’ experience of program management or aerospace leadership 
• Must be able to perform work subject to ITAR/EAR regulations and/or program requirements
• Proven program management experience in the defense, national security, or aerospace domains
• Proven experience leading a team of peers to field integrated products to real operating environments
• Adaptive and introspective, willing to learn, teach, lead, and follow
• Leadership and team building skills to include fostering collaborative and positive cultures, formal and informal influencing skills, and team empowerment and motivation expertise
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Problem solving skills and knowledge of program management tools and procedures

Preferred Experience:

• Advanced degree in a technical field 
• Active Secret Security Clearance or ability/willingness to obtain one
• Experience with Department of Defense (DoD) and Government Contracts

Colorado law requires us to tell you the base compensation range of this role, which is $155,000 - $195,000, determined by your education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities. What we can’t quantify for you are the exciting challenges, supportive team, and amazing culture we enjoy. 

Classification: Full-time Exempt