Program Manager - Defense Programs

Insight Global; Huntington Beach (CA); In loco; USD 90.000 - 140.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Insight Global's client is seeking a Program Manager to lead defense and aerospace programs from planning through qualification, production, and delivery in Huntington Beach, California. You will coordinate cross-functional teams and drive technical and business decisions to meet customer and mission requirements.

Reporting to the Integrated Product Lead, you will manage schedules, budgets, risk mitigation, and customer communications; support design reviews and production-readiness activities;

Descrizione del lavoro

Insight Global's client is looking for a Program Manager to join their team. As a Program Manager, you will lead assigned defense and aerospace programs from planning and development through qualification, production, and delivery. Reporting to the Integrated Product Lead, you will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage program performance, and drive technical and business decisions to deliver missile, propulsion, launch, payload, and defense-system hardware that meets customer and mission requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Lead assigned programs from development through contract completion, with ownership of cost, schedule, technical performance, quality, contractual requirements, and customer commitments. Develop and maintain integrated program plans, schedules, budgets, milestones, resource requirements, and performance metrics.
• Coordinate program execution across engineering, operations, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, contracts, finance, and test.
• Manage contractual deliverables, statements of work, customer requests, scope changes, and program priorities.
• Identify and manage technical, programmatic, supply-chain, cost, and schedule risks, driving mitigation and recovery plans when needed.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for customers, prime contractors, government stakeholders, suppliers, and internal leadership.
• Lead program reviews and communicate financial performance, schedule status, technical risks, key decisions, dependencies, and corrective actions.
• Support design reviews, test-readiness reviews, qualification activities, production-readiness reviews, and customer acceptance events.
• Support proposals, estimates, contract negotiations, follow-on opportunities, and overall program growth.