Senior Maritime ISR Programs Leader for Airborne Systems

KBR Careers; Lexington Park (MD); On-site; USD 170,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

KBR seeks a Senior Program Manager, ISR Systems, to lead execution for airborne maritime ISR programs at Pax River, MD. You will direct cross-functional teams across engineering, cybersecurity, testing, and transition activities to deliver interoperable capabilities for manned and unmanned aircraft.

The role requires deep program-management discipline, strong leadership, and experience with defense programs, with clear liaison to government stakeholders and contractors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, business administration, program management, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience managing complex government or defense programs with cost, schedule, and technical performance accountability.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams supporting systems engineering, R&D, systems integration, test and evaluation, or lifecycle support.
• Experience developing and managing program schedules, resource plans, financial baselines, risk registers, and customer deliverables.
• Experience supporting U.S. Navy, NAVAIR, naval aviation, ISR, C4ISR, or comparable defense acquisition programs.
• Active Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead overall program execution across cost, schedule, technical performance, quality, staffing, risk, and contractual requirements.
• Serve as the primary management interface with government program leadership, contracting representatives, technical stakeholders, subcontractors, and mission partners.
• Establish and maintain resource-loaded program baselines, including schedules, budgets, deliverables, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and other direct costs.
• Direct cross-functional teams supporting mission analysis, systems engineering, digital engineering, rapid prototyping, hardware and software integration, cybersecurity, test and evaluation, logistics, and technology transition.
• Coordinate the development and integration of responsive, interoperable ISR capabilities for manned and unmanned maritime aviation systems.
• Monitor program performance, analyze variances, implement corrective actions, and communicate status, decisions, risks, and forecasted outcomes through recurring customer and executive reviews.
• Oversee virtual modeling, laboratory integration, hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop activities, and virtual or live demonstrations used to reduce risk and evaluate mission capability.
• Manage capability-transition planning, including configuration control, technical data, training, airworthiness coordination, depot-maintenance development, sustainment, and government acceptance.
• Ensure program activities and deliverables comply with contract requirements, security controls, data-rights obligations, quality processes, and applicable government policies.
• Other duties as assigned in support of mission and business requirements.

Skills

Program management

Systems engineering

Leadership

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering / CS / business / PM

Master's degree in related discipline

Job description

KBR seeks a Senior Program Manager, ISR Systems, to lead execution for airborne maritime ISR programs at Pax River, MD. You will direct cross-functional teams across engineering, cybersecurity, testing, and transition activities to deliver interoperable capabilities for manned and unmanned aircraft.

The role requires deep program-management discipline, strong leadership, and experience with defense programs, with clear liaison to government stakeholders and contractors.