Program Manager

Job Title: Program Manager

Department: PM

Location: Marinette, WI

Education/Experience

• Degree in Engineering, Finance, Project Management, or related field.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills essential.
• Must have good computer skills.
• (Desired) PMP Certified w. project management experience on DoD programs beneficial.
• (Desired) Understanding of government contracting requirements (CLINs, CDRLs, EVMS).

Summary

Serves as the company's point of contact with the customer to assure customer satisfaction and development. Manages, coordinates, and communicates processes of individual contracts, monitoring price, cost, schedule, quality, and customer satisfaction throughout the contract life cycle, from award through completion of the warranty period and formal project closure.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Other duties may be assigned.

Responsibilities will include overall execution responsibility of the project including conformance with all procedures for contract reviews and reporting. In addition, the project manager will be responsible defining the resources required and for managing the customer.

Project Management

• The Program Manager is ultimately responsible for leading the program and its success or failure. Program Manager must understand full scope of the program and Trident's responsibilities, identify, and assess risks across different functional areas, resolve issues, and ensure that a quality work product is delivered on budget, on time, and according to contractual requirements.
• Communication Lead: Serve as liaison between the customer and accountable functional managers (engineering, planning, supply chain, production, etc.) for successful execution of the contractual requirements and scope.
• Cost management and oversight: Oversee budget definition and development of the contract. Communicate, maintain, and monitor budgets for all functions to minimize costs and drive successful execution. Identify and mitigate risks to financial performance. Assure effectiveness of project execution from (where applicable) product design, manufacture, process management and oversee all direct charged costs.
• Schedule development and oversight: Develop and maintain a schedule that addresses drawing requirements, material requisitioning requirements, material ordering, delivery, and installation. Manage change to scope and schedule through change management processes and risk management / impact assessments.
• Contract and Scope Management: Have thorough knowledge and understanding of the scope of work, estimate content, contract duration, contract terms and conditions, risk assessment, and sales concessions. Maintain compliance to the contract, which includes the scope of work, the specification, and regulatory bodies. Assure approved contract adjustments are incorporated in the appropriate documents and/or disseminated to accountable managers.
• Resource and Team Management: Oversight of employees, subcontractors, and vendors executing contractual scope under the contract.
• Responsible for understanding and following Trident and ISO quality procedures. Document Management: Implement a system utilizing existing procedures to collect, maintain and retrieve contract records. Ensure that contractual communication is logically stored and maintained.
• Responsible for periodic internal management and financial reporting needs of contractual costs incurred, forecasted cost, and overall performance.
• Business development and opportunity identification. Program managers are responsible for oversight of customer communication relative to pricing, scheduling, quality, and satisfaction. This may include additional scopes of work complementary to or tangential to existing work. Prepare and draft estimates and/or proposal documents outlining execution methodologies and approaches, value proposition and cost/benefit analyses.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Language Ability

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.

Computer Skills Required: Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook, and Project).

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment can vary.

Location and Travel

Program Managers are expected to be on-site with the customer approximately 75-100% of the time during core project execution. Preference for position is a resource who lives in the anticipated program or project.

Travel required to customer sites to interface with client engineering design teams to ensure power & propulsion equipment is clearly and adequately defined. The duration of these visits may vary from several days to several weeks depending on the project requirements. Extended work hours may be required to achieve project objectives.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to use hands and fingers to handle or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to walk; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to lift up to 25 pounds. The vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, age, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations.

GPAC (Growing People and Companies) is an award-winning search firm specializing in placing quality professionals within multiple industries across the United States for the past 31 years. We are extremely competitive, client-focused and realize that our value is in our ability to deliver the right solutions at the right time.