Senior Program Manager, Airborne Maritime ISR Systems

KBR, Inc; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

KBR, Inc. is seeking a Senior Program Manager for Airborne Maritime ISR Systems to lead program execution for a challenging government program. You will manage cost, schedule, technical performance, risk, and staffing while coordinating with government customers, subcontractors, and mission partners.

The role requires proven leadership of multidisciplinary teams in systems engineering, rapid prototyping, testing, and lifecycle support, with a TS clearance and on-site work at Pax River, MD.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, business administration, program management, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of experience managing complex government or defense programs with cost, schedule, and technical performance accountability.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams supporting systems engineering, research and development, systems integration, test and evaluation, or lifecycle support.
• Experience developing and managing program schedules, resource plans, financial baselines, risk registers, and customer deliverables.
• 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 development and integration of ISR capabilities for manned and unmanned maritime aviation systems.
• Monitor performance, analyze variances, implement corrective actions, and communicate status through reviews.
• Oversee modeling, lab integration, hardware-in-the-loop and software-in-the-loop activities, and demonstrations to reduce risk and evaluate capability.
• Manage capability-transition planning, configuration control, data rights, training, airworthiness coordination, and sustainment.
• Ensure program activities comply with contract requirements, security controls, and government policies.

Skills

Program management

Systems engineering

Cost control

Scheduling

Risk management

Staffing & leadership

Education

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

Master’s degree (preferred)

Job description

Senior Program Manager, Airborne Maritime ISR SystemsKBR is seeking a Senior Program Manager, ISR Systems to lead program execution supporting a PAE Aviation Program Office. This position provides leadership for research, development, integration, demonstration, and transition of innovative intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities for manned and unmanned maritime aviation systems. The Senior Program Manager oversees cost, schedule, technical performance, risk, staffing, quality, and contractual deliverables across rapid hardware and software development, digital engineering, test, and lifecycle-support activities. The role coordinates closely with government customers, technical leaders, functional organizations, subcontractors, and mission partners to align resources and execution plans with evolving operational priorities. Effective performance requires disciplined organization, clear communication, collaborative leadership, and careful attention to program data, commitments, and mission outcomes.## ## Roles and 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 and project 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.## ## Basic Qualifications* Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, business administration, program management, or a related discipline.* Minimum 10 years of experience managing complex government or defense programs with cost, schedule, and technical performance accountability.* Experience leading multidisciplinary teams supporting systems engineering, research and development, 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.## ## Preferred Qualifications* Master’s degree in engineering, computer science, business administration, program management, or a related discipline.* Project Management Professional certification.* Experience supporting Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft or manned and unmanned maritime ISR systems.* Experience with rapid prototyping, digital engineering, model-based systems engineering, modeling and simulation, or Modular Open Systems Approach implementation.* Experience managing research, development, test and evaluation programs involving hardware, software, sensors, communications, networking, data fusion, or autonomous systems.* Experience transitioning prototype capabilities into operational use, depot maintenance, or lifecycle sustainment.## Work Environment* Location: On-site in Patuxent River, Maryland* Travel Requirements: Minimal 0-20%* Working Hours: Standard**Basic Compensation:**$169,600.00 - $207,300.00 (**This is for the Pax River, MD area only**)