Senior Program Manager

Public Trust: None

Requisition Type: Regular

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to work alongside federal civilian agencies. Make an impact by providing services that help the government ensure the well being of U.S. citizens.

Job Description

Program Manager

General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) is currently seeking a full-time, on-site Program Manager for our customer located in Atlantic City Airport, NJ. This contract conducts drone flights and testing for airport surface safety and airport pavement life. The Program Manager will lead, oversee, and be responsible for all work activities under the contract including overseeing task orders related to Detection & Mitigation, Airport Applications and Airport Operations. The PM provides leadership, communications, and coordination related to all contract matters between GDIT and our customer, and between the local GDIT office and GDIT management offices located in the Washington, D.C. area. The Program Manager must also effectively of business and technical efforts of multiple subcontractors and vendors in order to achieve program objectives. This is a challenging position and requires an individual with strong program and project management experience, superb communications skills, strong leadership, and proven ability to manage technical work efforts.

Essential Job Duties:

• Provide overall management of personnel working in a highly technical environment
• Develop and foster effective relationships with customer at multiple levels
• Define and implement effective project management processes tailored to the environment
• Guide technical leads and team members in developing technical work plans and deliverables
• Develop and/or review cost estimates and basis for estimates for highly technical tasks
• Implement financial management rigor of multiple task orders using financial tracking and forecasting methods and tools
• Develop effective working relationships with customers, subcontractors, and vendors
• Nurture a work environment where employees are responsible and accountable, pursue learning and development, offer best ideas for results and impact, and exhibit a positive energy

Knowledge Requirements:

• 10-15 years of full-time program management experience
• Previous aviation related research and development experience is preferred
• Candidate must be proficient in Government contract and design standards
• Candidate must be proficient in planning tools (i.e., work breakdown structure, Gantt chats, critical path analysis, PERT charts, etc.)
• Candidate must be proficient in budgeting, financial tracking and report development
• Candidate must have excellent communication and writing skills

Education Requirements:

• Minimum: 4-year engineering or management degree from an accredited college in operations research, engineering, business, mathematics or management science
• PMP is preferred

Benefits:

• Insurance – Health, Dental, Life, Long Term Care, etc.
• 10 paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off
• 401k
• Tuition Reimbursement

Work Requirements

Years of Experience

10 + years of related experience

* may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

Travel Required

None