Senior Subcontract Program Manager – Federal Space

Loft Orbital Solutions; Golden (CO); On-site; USD 195,000 - 298,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan and equity options

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Relocation assistance

Office lunches

Job summary

Loft Federal, a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Loft Orbital Solutions, is seeking a Senior Subcontract Program Manager to lead subcontract execution across federal space programs, proposals, and strategic supplier relationships.

This role drives structured execution from proposal to closeout, coordinating with Program Managers, Contracts, Finance, Engineering, and Legal to ensure cost, schedule, and technical commitments are met.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship is required for this role.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
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Responsibilities

• Manage subcontractor execution across the full program lifecycle, including proposal support, source selection input, subcontract award, execution, delivery, modification, and closeout.
• Lead subcontractor execution rhythms, including supplier status reviews, action tracking, deliverable tracking, issue resolution, and escalation.
• Ensure subcontractors understand and execute against approved statements of work, technical requirements, schedules, deliverables, reporting requirements, security requirements, and contractual obligations.
• Partner with Program Managers to integrate subcontractors into the overall program baseline, including schedule, budget, risks, deliverables, technical dependencies, and customer commitments.
• Track subcontractor performance against cost, schedule, technical, quality, contractual, security, and deliverable requirements.
• Coordinate with Engineering and Mission teams on technical progress, interface control, requirements allocation, verification planning, test readiness, delivery readiness, and acceptance criteria.
• Work with Contracts and Legal on subcontract terms, flowdowns, SDRLs/CDRLs, modifications, funding limits, invoicing requirements, compliance requirements, and closeout documentation.
• Support proposal activities involving subcontractors, including supplier inputs, SOW development, pricing assumptions, BOEs, risk inputs, deliverables, long-lead items, and execution assumptions.
• Improve proposal-to-execution continuity by carrying supplier assumptions, commitments, negotiated positions, risks, and pricing logic into program startup.
• Partner with Finance and Program Managers on subcontract budgets, forecasts, accruals, invoice reviews, EACs, ETCs, funding profiles, margin visibility, and supplier-driven financial risk.
• Identify subcontractor risks early and drive mitigation plans before issues become customer-facing problems.
• Lead supplier performance reviews and ensure actions are tracked to closure with named owners and due dates.
• Support subcontract change management, including scope changes, schedule impacts, funding changes, technical trades, and contract modifications.
• Maintain clear subcontract execution records that support program reviews, customer discussions, audits, internal reviews, and leadership decision‑making.
• Support supplier evaluations, supplier scorecards, and future source selection input based on actual performance.
• Help build scalable subcontract management processes, templates, dashboards, and operating rhythms that improve execution without slowing the business down.

Skills

U.S. citizenship

Security clearance

Subcontract management

Supplier program management

Government contracting

FAR/DFARS knowledge

SOW/BOE pricing inputs

Cross-functional collaboration

Budget and financial reviews

Communication skills

Risk identification

Scalable processes

Ownership and accountability

Stakeholder management

Tools

NetSuite

Jira

Deltek

Costpoint

Unanet

SAP

Oracle

Job description

Loft Federal, a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Loft Orbital Solutions, is seeking a Senior Subcontract Program Manager to lead subcontract execution across federal space programs, proposals, and strategic supplier relationships.

This role drives structured execution from proposal to closeout, coordinating with Program Managers, Contracts, Finance, Engineering, and Legal to ensure cost, schedule, and technical commitments are met.