Program Lead, Defense Space Systems

Amro Fabricating Corporation; Huntington Beach (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Life and AD&D insurance

Disability insurance

Job summary

Karman Space & Defense is seeking a Program Manager in Huntington Beach, CA to lead complex defense-focused programs from planning through delivery. You will coordinate cross-functional teams and manage risks to meet cost, schedule, technical, quality, and customer objectives.

The role requires a BS in engineering or related field with 5+ years in aerospace/defense program management. PMP and DoD program experience are preferred. Excellent stakeholder engagement is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, business program management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and directly relevant experience.
• 5 or more years of experience supporting or managing aerospace, defense, advanced manufacturing, or similarly complex technical programs.

Responsibilities

• Leads assigned programs through planning, development, qualification, production, delivery, and contract completion.
• Owns performance against cost, schedule, technical, quality, contractual, and customer objectives.
• Develops and maintains integrated program plans, schedules, budgets, milestones, resource requirements, and performance metrics.
• Coordinates cross-functional execution across engineering, operations, quality, supply chain, contracts, finance, and test.
• Serves as a primary interface for customers, prime contractors, government stakeholders, suppliers, and internal leadership.
• Identifies programmatic, technical, supply-chain, cost, and schedule risks and drives mitigation and recovery plans.
• Leads recurring program reviews and communicates financial performance, risks, decisions, dependencies, and corrective actions.
• Supports design reviews, test-readiness reviews, qualification activities, production-readiness reviews, and customer acceptance events.
• Manages contractual deliverables, statements of work, program changes, customer requests, and scope changes.
• Supports proposals, estimates, contract negotiations, follow-on opportunities, and program-growth activities.

Education

Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, business program management, or related field

Job description

Karman Space & Defense is seeking a Program Manager in Huntington Beach, CA to lead complex defense-focused programs from planning through delivery. You will coordinate cross-functional teams and manage risks to meet cost, schedule, technical, quality, and customer objectives.

The role requires a BS in engineering or related field with 5+ years in aerospace/defense program management. PMP and DoD program experience are preferred. Excellent stakeholder engagement is essential.