swarmaero - Program Manager, Aircraft
Requirements
• 7+ years of program management, with at least 4 years owning cost, schedule, and technical performance on aircraft, UAS, or other aerospace and defense hardware programs • Direct experience managing DoD research and development contracts (S&T, prototype, or 6.2/6.3 efforts) • Track record taking aircraft or aerospace hardware through build and test, ideally to first flight • Working knowledge of government contract execution: CDRLs, funded vs. ceiling value, modifications, and customer reporting • Hands-on with IMS development (MS Project, Primavera, Smartsheet or similar), budget tracking, and EVM concepts • Ability to run several efforts at once and make clear priority calls when they compete • Clear, direct communicator who can brief an engineer, an executive, and a government program manager • U.S. person status as defined by ITAR, and ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance • Experience working with DoD research labs and innovation organizations • Program experience on Group 3 to Group 5 UAS, collaborative autonomy, or experimental aircraft • Experience with OTA, SBIR/STTR, or other rapid acquisition contract vehicles • Familiarity with airworthiness and flight test planning • Background at a startup or fast-scaling hardware company • Active Secret clearance or higher • PMP or DAWIA Program Management certification • LOCATION AND DETAILS • Location: Remote (U.S.), with regular travel to Oxnard, CA, customer sites, suppliers, and test sites • Reports to: Director of PMO • Export control: This role requires access to information subject to ITAR. Candidates must be U.S. persons as defined by 22 CFR 120.62. • ITAR requirement • To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
Responsibilities
• Own our research programs end to end as the primary point of contact for government program managers and contracting teams • Drive program execution on our aircraft program with the Director of PMO, from design reviews through fabrication, integration, ground test, and flight test • Build and maintain the integrated master schedule (IMS) across both efforts, tied to contract milestones and test events • Own budgets and burn, track against funding, and flag variance early with a recovery plan • Deliver contract requirements on time: CDRLs, monthly status and financial reports, technical reports, and final deliverables • Run the program cadence: weekly reviews, technical interchange meetings, milestone reviews (PDR, CDR, TRR), and status to leadership and customers • Run the risk, issue, and opportunity process and drive mitigations to closure • Coordinate engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and flight test, and deconflict shared people, hardware, and test assets between efforts • Manage scope changes, contract modifications, and follow-on work with our contracts and business development teams • Build the PMO tools and processes we will need as we add aircraft programs
Benefits
• Meaningful equity in a high-growth defense technology company • Competitive base salary commensurate with experience • Medical, dental, vision, and 401k • PTO and paid sick leave • Monthly wellness stipend • Daily catered lunch (office) • Paid parental leave • Direct impact on a critical national security mission • A world-class team of engineers and operators solving genuinely hard problems
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