Senior Manager, Program Chief Engineer - Ejection & Propulsion (Onsite)

Collins Aerospace; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Generous 401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement program

Life insurance and disability coverage

Employee Assistance Plan

Healthy You Incentives

Virtual doctor visits

Job summary

A leading aerospace company is seeking a Senior Manager, Program Chief in Colorado Springs to oversee critical technical projects. Responsibilities include serving as the primary technical interface with customers, managing multi-disciplinary teams, and ensuring project alignment with technicalrequirements. Candidates should have a STEM degree and extensive leadership experience. The company offers competitive benefits, including medical coverage, a generous 401(k) plan, and professional development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in STEM and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience.
• Previous leadership experience is essential.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary technical interface to the customer.
• Lead project activities and provide technical guidance.
• Ensure adherence to engineering processes and goals.

Skills

Leadership experience

Customer communications

Earned Value experience

Education

Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM)

Advanced Degree

Job description

Overview

Date Posted: 2026-01-20

Country: United States of America

Location: CO203: Mission Systems (Ejec Seating) 1225 Aeroplaza Drive, Colorado Springs, CO, 80916 USA

Position Role Type: Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements: U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

Security Clearance Type: None/Not Required

Security Clearance Status: Not Required

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

This position is for a Senior Manager, Program Chief supporting a development and Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) contracts for a proprietary program. The program chief is the primary technical interface to the customer and has the primary accountability for meeting technical requirements and scope for the program including cost and schedule. They lead the development of work methods, develop overall systems strategy, provide support and guidance to various technical teams, and approve common work practices. This position is onsite in Colorado Springs, CO.

What You Will Do

• Primary technical interface to the customer and has the primary accountability for meeting technical requirements and scope for the program including cost and schedule.
• Directs technical system-level trade studies and has design authority approval.
• Ensures processes are adhered to by the engineering execution team and liaises with program management and PMT leads to assure technical goals are achieved.
• Responsible for capturing lessons learned.
• Take ownership of technical project execution through Design & Development activities into Production
• Lead project activities, provide technical guidance, and motivate multi-disciplinary engineering teams ensuring collaboration of Engineering and Production activities
• Coordinate project staffing with Engineering Management and provide timely forecasts of staffing demand
• Perform Risks & Opportunities Management activities throughout project execution
• Track, report, and analyze project health metrics, to include Earned Value, Requirements, Test Burndown, Software/Hardware Discovery and Quality
• Present project status to multiple levels of Leadership
• Support internal and external stakeholders as the primary technical point of contact
• Support Pursuit & Order capture activities including bidding & estimation efforts for new projects. This will include activities such as proposal response, development of the work breakdown structure and statement of work, support technical design approach, and creation of project schedule
• Evaluate & document current (and define future) architectures to solve business problems

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience
• Previous leadership experience (Project or People Management)

Qualifications We Prefer

• Design, analysis or test engineering experience
• Earned Value experience
• Customer communications and customer management experience
• Previous Programmatic Experience (Program Management, Project Management, etc.) preferred

What We Offer

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
• Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
• Tuition reimbursement program
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Life insurance and disability coverage
• Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
• Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
• Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
• Adoption Assistance
• Autism Benefit
• Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
• Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
• Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
• Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
• Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program
• And more!

Learn More & Apply Now!

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps civilian, military and government customers complete their most complex missions — whatever and wherever they may be. Our customers depend on us for intelligent and secure communications, missionized systems for specialized aircraft and spacecraft and collaborative space solutions. By joining our team, you’ll have your own critical part to play in ensuring our customer succeeds today while anticipating their needs for tomorrow. Are you up for the challenge? Join our mission today.

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products

Apply now and be part of the team that’s redefining aerospace, every day.

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